‘Free up the ganja’: Rastafarians in Kenya fight to decriminalise marijuana
Marijuana plays a sacred role among Rastafari followers and they say criminalising it violates their rightsAbout a dozen people sang along to the pulsing vibrations of drums and a tambourine in a dimly lit room in Nairobi’s sprawling Kibera neighbourhood. For more than an hour they belted out song after song, the lyrics suffused with references to Ethiopia, Jah, Zion, Rastafari and Haile Selassie I.
Marijuana plays a sacred role among Rastafari followers and they say criminalising it violates their rightsAbout a dozen people sang along to the pulsing vibrations of drums and a tambourine in a dimly lit room in Nairobi’s sprawling Kibera neighbourhood. For more than an hour they belted out song after song, the lyrics suffused with references to Ethiopia, Jah, Zion, Rastafari and Haile Selassie I.
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