Tightening 1941 🇯🇲 Jamaica

Colonial police raid Pinnacle and arrest residents

Government forces raid the early Rastafari community and arrest followers of Leonard Howell. The raid is distinct from the same year’s national ganja-penalty amendment; no separate change to statutory penalties is recorded here.^[1]

In the cultural atlas

People · Jamaican religious leader · 1898–1981Leonard HowellAn early Rastafari preacher and founder of Pinnacle, a Jamaican farming and religious community that grew ganja alongside food crops. Colonial raids repeatedly disrupted the settlement and dispersed its residents.

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Jamaica here.

References

Jamaica Gleaner — Paul H. Williams, Pinnacle, a story of a new religion and persecution (16 December 2022)archived

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