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A ganja farm in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. Cannabis in Jamaica is illegal, but possession of small amounts was reduced to a petty offence in 2015. Cannabis is locally known as ganja, and internationally cannabis consumption plays a prominent role in the nation's public image, being tied to cultural touchstones such as Rastafari and reggae music. [1]
The years prior to the Coral Gardens incident saw the building of tensions between the Rastafarian community and the British colonial government in Jamaica.In 1958, British police engaged in several arrests and evictions of Rastafarians, often bringing to bear charges for the possession of cannabis, which is used as a Rastafarian religious sacrament.
Krishna joins Arjan and his crew of strain hunters in Colombia to look for three of the country's rarest types of weed, strains that have remained genetically pure for decades. They trudge up mountains and crisscross military checkpoints in the country's still-violent south, and then head north to the breathtaking Caribbean coast.
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Until the 1980s, Belize was the fourth-largest exporter of cannabis to the United States, behind Colombia, Mexico, and Jamaica. Since the mid-1980s, Belize's production has dropped dramatically due to eradication efforts by the Belizean government, supported by the United States. By 1994, Belizean production was at "negligible levels." [2]
Gogo Lidz (August 20, 2015), "Women in weed: how legal marijuana could be the first billion dollar industry not dominated by men", Newsweek; Chloe Sommers (April 10, 2017), "Breaking the Grass Ceiling Book Interviews Top Women in Weed", Marijuana Times "Meet the Women Bringing Weed to the Deep South". Rolling Stone.
The movie, premiering this month, is based on real events in the early 1990s, when a group of young people in Cuba were looking for freedom from government repression.
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