U.S. drug policy has, and continues to create tension between the United States and other countries. Using the August 2001 report of the Jamaican Commission on ganja, this paper uses the certification process to highlight some of the tensions inherent in the U.S. federal government's anti-marijuana legalization posture. This paper discusses the likelihood of the U.S. federal government changing the legal landscape for marijuana. It concludes by recommending, as potential solutions to address the tension between the US and its regional neighbours, regionalization of drug control and replacing the drug certification process with the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM). The question becomes, is there a policy entrepreneur willing to agitate for a change in the policy environment?