The Ganja Complex: Rastafari and Marijuana

by Ansley Hamid

In The Ganja Complex Ansley Hamid skillfully welds together two decades of ethnographic research on marijuana in the Caribbean and the United States. Hamid juxtaposes an in-depth study of the spread of Rastafari in the 1970s with an examination of the rise of an international marijuana economy. This revisionist work departs radically from previous scholarship by identifying Rastafari, not as a messianic or millenarian cult, but as a participant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739103601
• ISBN13: 9780739103609
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"