More Support For Marijuana Than Music

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The cover art for Peter Tosh's 1976 Legalise It album, with the Stepping Razor smoking a chalice in a marijuana field, was a strong statement of rebellion. Now, the way things are shaping up with the moves to commercialise marijuana in Jamaica, it may just turn out to be the picturesque epitome of a sick joke on the social class which has most strongly advocated for and sustained the production of marijuana and music in this country.

It is the poor people, the have-nots, who have carved out an existence and occasionally tenuous prosperity in marginal physical and social spaces of the society out of weed and popular music, intertwining both to the extent that they have become as natural a combination as rice and peas, bun and cheese, sorrel and Christmas, hot gal and bunning man.

And it is the poor people who have been chucked in prison, brutalised by the...

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