But the open, no-limits sprawl of Boulder, edging up into the empty mountains, seemed a better fit for that mind-enlarging ganja feeling.The American bartender had been right: it was a clear-headed high, and just as strong as the stuff in Amsterdam.
"You know I smoke'a de ganja all a de time".
It would also curtail the potential for extortion; seven police officers appeared in court this month to face allegations that they took a $2,750 bribe from a businessman in return for overlooking a ganja find on his premises.Jamaicans are prone to waves of moral panic, but the proposal to decriminalise ganja has caused barely any waves.
Marley looked on Mr Dodd as a father; Mr Dodd tolerated his Rastafarian ways, letting him smoke a little ganja under the almond tree in the yard.
A Cannabis Future Growers and Producers Association was launched last month, and a commercial company to support medical marijuana in December.Selling for less than five dollars an ounce, ganja has a long history in Jamaica, going all the way back to 19th-century Indian immigrants.
Some of the early work on medicinal uses for marijuana was done in Jamaica in the 1970s and 1980s.In practice, most small-time ganja users are not arrested or prosecuted.
Jamaica's gangsters will continue to enjoy total control over the ganja market.
On February 25th Jamaica passed a law decriminalising possession of small amounts of ganja.
Both St Vincent and Jamaica have been producing ganja in quantity for decades, and are now graduating to transshipment of cocaine.Jamaica's sugar producers will probably be wiped outNow it is the turn of sugar.
Moroccan kif, Nepalese ganja and Bolivian marching powder such labels add cosmopolitan glamour to a seedy business.
"It is not only wrong but also foolhardy to continue with a law that makes it illegal to posses ganja and its derivatives for medicinal purposes," Mr Golding added.
