Word: ganja
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chose to spend most of the rest of the year on his own considering interior horizons and the curious capacities of memory. Erik decided, while resting beside the waterfall pool where young villagers occasionally bathed, that he had traveled enough, but then, found himself in New Delhi hunting ganja, and still later, in Katmandu, exploring the Himalayas--all somewhat inexplicably...
...those precocious Liverpudlians back in '63 had better be there if you know what's good for you. Bob Marley is just the same as Paul McCartney, only he's from Funky Kingston, which is just South of Liverpool, and he's been high all of his life, on ganja, that is, which is this substance which people from South of Liverpool worship by smoking it a lot. Reggae, which is the stuff BobMarley and his Wailers play, is the same as what the Beatles played, only a lot better, and the words, whatever words you can hear, actually mean...
...City-based Research Institute for the Study of Man, which spent two years studying marijuana users on the Caribbean island of Jamaica, concluded that although the drug causes inefficiency on the job, even among farm laborers, it does no apparent physical harm. The researchers noted that Jamaicans who smoke ganja, as the powerful, locally grown marijuana is called, take in ten to 25 times as much of the drug's active ingredient as American pot puffers...
...create an eerily hypnotic musical style. The force behind the group's unrelenting swaying rhythms builds up like the lava emerging from a volcano. Bob Marley's lyrics combine Rastafarlan spirituality with an uncompromising insistence on political freedom; the Wailers create an atmosphere of a revolutionary cadre holding a ganja party in a Kingston ghetto. Unfortunately, Paul's Mall, which offers no dance floor, is probably one of the worst places to sit and become engaged in such a driving rhythmic force. But the chance to hear "Cath a Fire" and "Get Up, Stand Up" is worth the frustration...