New approaches to cannabis culture

This issue of Caribbean Quarterly interrogates the Caribbean cannabis landscape from a range of perspectives, addressing issues such as the socio-cultural significance of the plant and its uses, regulatory challenges and opportunities, reparatory measures for Rastafarian communities and enduring limitations in research.

Index of contents

• From Hand Measures to Gram Weights, Ganja Becomes More Precise
  Jahlani A. Niaah
• Distorted Directions in Cannabis in the Commonwealth Caribbean - Did We Exhale?
  Rose-Marie Belle Antoine
• Rastafari Ganja Reparations - A Caribbean Decolonial Imperative
  Marcus Goffe
• Don’t Vex then Pray - The Methodology of Initiation Fifteen Years Later
  Carole D. Yawney
• Creating Cannabis Identity through Cannabis Use
  Christopher A.D. Charles
• ‘Under the Tamarind Tree’ - Groundings with My Brethren
  Jake Homiak
• Bold and Open ResistanceThe Contribution of Traditional Farmers to Cannabis Reform in St Vincent and the Grenadines
  Junior “Spirit” Cottle
• Lessons in Developing a Formal Cannabis Sector and Culture in the Caribbean
  André Gordon
• Ganja Talk - The Art of Cannabis Advocacy in Reggae Music
  Jahlani A. Niaah
• Ganjapreneurship, Hypocrisy and the Jamaican Nation State - A Comment
  Sonjah Stanley Niaah
• The Urgency of Now - Towards Purpose-driven and Responsive Laws to Regulate Jamaica's Cannabis Industry
  Annette Henry
• Budding Success or Failure? The Cannabis Industry and the Caribbean
  Douglas K. Gordon
• Photo Essay: Stepping High Festival - A Cultural Beacon Pioneering Jamaica's Cannabis Events' Space
  Khimaja Connell
• Personal Essay: Finding the Healing Stream - An Autoethnography
  Peta-Anne Baker
• And a number of poems and book reviews are available here.