Why Did Bob Marley Smoke Marijuana?
Why Did Bob Marley Smoke Marijuana? Sunday August 8, 2010 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Well, it certainly was not to provide inspiration to thousands of suburban teenagers after his death, that’s pretty clear. Marley himself used marijuana (“ganja”) as a religious sacrament, and advocated for the rights of Rastas to smoke marijuana for that reason. The question is, is there irony in the fact that hordes of teenaged middle-class Americans semi-worship Marley as an iconic pot smoker, when in fact the Rastafarian belief system views middle-class America as Babylon, an evil world built on the back of centuries of slavery and African oppression? I’m inclined to think that Marley would’v
