A major raid devastates Pinnacle

A police raid destroys homes and cannabis crops and displaces residents of Howell’s community. Some subsequently return. The event records enforcement against the settlement, rather than a new national cannabis law.^[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.

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References

Michael Barnett — The Legacy of Charismatic Leadership in the Rastafari Movement, IDEAZ 15 (2020), p. 59 archived

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