Jamaica: Rastafari Rootz Fest Organisers Mull New Date

Rastafari Inity, promoters of Rastafari Rootz Fest, Jamaica’s first ganja-exempt event, has indicated that next year, the third staging of the festival could be shifted from December to November.

The move is geared towards avoiding a clash with an established ganja event held annually in California. 

“In California the biggest ganja cup, Emerald Cup, is taking place December 9-11. So a vast amount of people who would come to Rootz Fest gone to Emerald Cup because Emerald Cup is one of the biggest thing, and it is an annual event. So what we want to do now is look on the international calendar and pick a date somewhere in November so that Rootz Fest don’t clash with any other international ganja event,” Ras Iyah V, one of the promoters of the event, told the Jamaica Observer West.

“There is nowhere in the world that you find musicians sing about ganja...

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