The singer Bob Marley, who had recently taken up the Rastafari faith and its use of ganja as a sacrament, was arrested for possession. According to the historian Martin Booth he spent a month in jail, under a law that since 1941 had made prison compulsory for any ganja conviction, and used the time to learn more about Rastafari.[1][2]
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References
- Cannabis: A HistoryMartin Booth · Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin’s Press · 2015 · ch. 21, Island in the Sun (EPUB page markers 320–322; original work copyright 2003) · ISBN 978-1-250-08219-0
- Wikipedia — Bob Marleyarchived
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