Ras Aswad Nkrabea, father of Oheneba Kwaku Nkrabea, one of the Rastafarian students has categorically stated that many Rastafarians do not take marijuana as perceived by people.
According to him, non-Rastafarians take in the herbs more than Rastafarians but yet still people turn blind eye to them.
He made this assertion with Berla Mundi on the New Day show on TV3.
“When you check the percentage of Rastafarians that are in Ghana and the amount of Marijuana that is being consumed, it is a minuscule percentage. So the ones who are smoking are the ones who are not demonstrating the Rastafarian faith. There are a lot of children there smoking and no one is doing anything about it because they don’t have dreadlocks. I grew up in Jamaica where I was cultivating it, we used it for medicine and so many other things and it’s very popular in Jamaica and I have never smoked, never, not even cigarettes.
“I am over sixty right now and I have never smoked Marijuana, there are a lot of Rastafarians who don’t smoke because they look at it like you are burning the herb rather than using it in its natural fullness. They see it as becoming toxic once the fire touches it, the chemistry changes, and so on. There are so many philosophies, Rastafari has different philosophies within it, it’s not just one straight philosophy, even in Ghana, there are four different organizations of Rastafari and they have their tenets when it is concerned” he affirmed.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Joseph Asare
