More Support For Marijuana Than Music:The Brickism of JA

[Sir X]

And it is the poor people who have been chucked in prison, brutalised by the State and done extensive informal research on the benefits of marijuana, who will benefit the least from its commercial exploitation. This is not least so for Rastafari, whose use of marijuana as a sacrament has attracted the unwelcome attention of lawmen, especially in the early 1960s when there was an ideological conflict over Jamaican identity - Rastafari with Africa on one hand, and the State pursuing a model built of British colonialism on the other.

The poor has literally planted the foundation of the cannabis industry and it is those higher on the socio-economic ladder who will live in the palaces it will most likely spawn. The high-level official high interest in cannabis as a high legal crop (not that many were not involved previously. At a Calabash International Literary Festival which I attended, the late Perry Henzell spoke about upper-class families in Portland all being involved in the marijuana trade at one point, and at the recent Rebel Salute's Herb Curb Symposium, Mutabaruka commented that there are those who own much now, such as planes, getting their start in ganja) is in stark contrast to the attitude towards Jamaican popular music


http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/e...arijuana-music

[Bricktop]

the market is wide open...anybody can do dem ting...that is just mindless yapping...

[Sir X]

Opinion noted and expected.