Why Rastafari smoke marijuana for sacramental reasons and the faith's other beliefs. The Associated Press. Updated Fri, June 2, 2023 at 12:18 PM UTC. 2 min read.

A Jamaican-born Rastafarian musician from Oregon, Beadle, 46, was on a cross-country trip when he was pulled over in Madison County, Miss., on the morning of March 7, 2017, Mississippi Today ...

It wasn't until the 1970s, when the Wailers and other Rasta musicians popularized the Rastafarian culture among better-off Jamaicans, that marijuana's popularity began to filter through the island ...

“[S]moking weed and loving Bob Marley and reggae music is not what defines the Rastafari Indigenous Culture!” the letter explains. (Incidentally, this may come as a surprise to more people ...

Taking a deep draw on a pipe that glows with burning marijuana, reggae luminary Bunny Wailer gives a satisfied grin through a haze of aromatic smoke in his concrete yard painted in the red, green ...

Driving through the Mississippi Delta, Patrick Beadle had to offer his respect to B.B. King. A Jamaican-born Rastafarian musician from Oregon, Beadle, 46, was on a cross-country trip when he was ...

Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. Skip to main content Open Main Menu Navigation ...

Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. Skip to main content Open Main Menu Navigation ...

Ras Jah, a member of the Ras Freeman Foundation for the Unification of Rastafari, prepares to pass a chalice pipe with marijuana to the left during service in the tabernacle on Sunday, May 14 ...

Why Rastafari smoke marijuana for sacramental reasons. Antigua and Barbuda recently became one of the first Caribbean nations to grant Rastafari official sacramental authorization to grow and ...