Marijuana in Jamaica: It will be legal
by Renney
(Miss., Ontario, Canada)
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Cannabis (marijuana) was never illegal in Jamaica until the twentieth century.
Spured on by the marijuana tax act of 1937 in the USA, if you consider the name cannabis and its relationship to canvas, you will understand the important part that cannabis (marijuana) played in the discovery of Jamaica and the Americas.
The sails for the ships of Christopher Columbus were made of cannabis hemp fibers; the ropes, riggins and maps, and oil for their lamps and torches.
The high protein meal (gruel) left over after pressing the oil rich seeds was a staple food source. The dried flowers and leaves are also used for their medicinal properties.
Cannabis was once a first class natural resource before its proibition and subsequent criminalization.
It is to many people the single most important plant on the earth; certainly the most versitile and resistant to various climates and elevations.
It has also withstood over seventy years of deliberate eradication campaign by the most powerful nation on earth and still stands as champion.
The billions of dollars that have being spent on the war on marijuana in Jamaica and the world throughout the seventy years, and the countless lives and property that have been distroyed; is in itself a crime against not only humanity but the planet.
The rastaman reason that, if JAH created cannabis then man cannot criminalize it. Many countries and governments are reforming their cannabis laws to reflect the renewed understanding and knowledge that today's lovers of cannabis are spreading.
Through music and art, many heroes and mortars have played their part in re-educating the masses of the value of this truely prescious plant.
Jamaica has produced Bob Marley and the Wailers and the new generation of reggae musicians and artists to a cause that is second to none but slavery.
The history, politics, religion and reality of the twenty-first century has ushered in the inevitable; not if, but when marijuana in Jamaica will be legal.
