Man, talk about cheesy ass lazy newspaper writing:
From Cape Town, to Jozi, to Banjul and now Geneva, there is no stopping Rastafari lawyer Gareth Prince in his cross-continental fight to be admitted as a practising attorney and for Rastafarians to be allowed to use cannabis.
Prince and his team are flying high in their legal battles and will now petition the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva after failing at the African Commission in the Gambian capital of Banjul.
They just couldn’t resist the urge to make a lame pun, could they? There’s one other noteworthy bit in this article. After Prince asked for the right to use marijuana sacramentally, the South African court rebutted:
“any religious practices must be conducted within the framework of the law and must, if necessary, be adapted to comply with the law, as failure to do so will result in anarchyâ€.
That’s wild to see it spelled out so blatantly as that. Ooh! Anarchy! Watch out!
Seriously though, the question in my mind about Rasta marijuana use is not whether or not their religious rituals should be protected under law. The question put before culture by it is: can drugs be used in a sacramental way? For a modern culture to openly admit that they can opens the real “threat” of anarchy. Because drugs then lose their stigma, and the people using them are given free reign to truly and actively explore the religious and philosophical implications which sacramental drug use has on a culture. This is precisely the reason drugs were criminalized several decades ago, because these implications began to sweep across the world.
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2 Comments
I see you’ve been reading “Breaking open the head.”
That’s the same thesis that author puts forth, that drugs were criminialized because they were a threat to the prevailing order. Don’t know if that’s so, but I’d give it one part that, one part health concerns, one part fear of the unknown, and mix it around good with a little bit of totaltarian urge.
i think a big part of it is that when a segment of the population is fully blasted they don`t tend to be productive. we are valued as the sum total of our productivity output measured over our working life. if you are unsure of the concept talk to an actuary.