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In the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari on the small island nation of Liberta, Antigua, are now legally growing and ritualistically smoking

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For decades, members of the Rastafari community have been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic marijuana use.

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LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) — On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari on this small island nation are now legally growing and ritualistically smoking marijuana. For Rastafari, the practice brings them closer to the divine. But for decades, many have been jailed and endured racial and religious profiling […]

For decades, members of the Rastafari community have been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic marijuana use. But the islands of Antigua and Barbuda recently became one of the first Caribbean nations to grant Rastafari official sacramental authorization to grow the herb.