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A Jamaican youth smokes marijuana from a pipe known locally as a "chalice" June 16, 2008 in the inner-city Rema neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica. Drugs are abundant in the inner-cities of Kingston, sometimes swapped with Central and South American cartels for guns which have helped Jamaica become one of the world leaders in per capita murder rates.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 3916x2634 / 1.9MB; Jamaica Jamaican gangs violence murder homicide rates capita crime justice society poverty community garrison gangsters guns weapons youth culture Caribbean tropics West Indies ghetto inner-city inner city epidemic marijuana chalice pipe smoking drugs narcotics tenement rastafarian religion yards yard public housing shotta shottas export criminality gang members Rema Kingston horizontal slum weed sensimilia Jamaica Kingston garrison garrisons gangs ghetto poverty violence gangsters crime culture violence tragic crisis island Jamaican armed gang life killing homicide rate political violence PNP JLP neighborhood members guns weapons criminal projects
Contained in galleries: Jamaican Violence Project

A Jamaican youth smokes marijuana from a pipe known locally as a "chalice" June 16, 2008 in the inner-city Rema neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica. Drugs are abundant in the inner-cities of Kingston, sometimes swapped with Central and South American cartels for guns which have helped Jamaica become one of the world leaders in per capita murder rates.