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Marijuana is Now Marley Natural

Submitted by Sargeant Marijuana which used to be the drug of choice for hippies, college students, middle age crazies and anyone who considered themselves rebellious has now gone Corporate. Bob Marley’s heirs have provided their blessing to a private corporation to use the name on marijuana products. For the princely sum of 10 million dollars…

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Submitted by Sargeant
Bob Marley
Bob Marley

Marijuana which used to be the drug of choice for hippies, college students, middle age crazies and anyone who considered themselves rebellious has now gone Corporate.

Bob Marley’s heirs have provided their blessing to a private corporation to use the name on marijuana products. For the princely sum of 10 million dollars “Marley Natural” will soon be on a shelf near you either in the form of some medical by product or perhaps some “blunts” in areas where it is permitted.

Bob must be spinning in his grave at this turn of events, he would not be happy that “Babylon” has taken over, I suppose his Rastafari brethren would be equally unhappy.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/11/22/bob-marley-heirs-pot-brand/19234573/

33 responses to “Marijuana is Now Marley Natural”

  1. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Sergeant

    You mean Jacob Killer Miller must be spinning in his grave because he is the one person who pushed the idea of Collie Herbs, continually and consistently throughout a lot of his music and prior to Bob Marley. He advocated for the use of the Collie herb and challenged the the emerging Rastafaian Movement of Jamaican during his day to smoke the collie herb openly as he had done at many of his concerts.

  2. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Sergeant

    Had you done a more penetrating analysis of the use of Marijuana in the United States. You would have discovered that prior to the large medicinal use of Marijuana as seen today in America and elsewhere in the world. That as far back as the late 1970s, many states in the United Stated decrminalized up to a joint of the collie herb to be used for recreational purposes.

  3. David Avatar
    David

    Except you are a JA the thrust of Sargeant’s submission is obvious.

    Ignorance has no bounds.

  4. Easy Squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    Peter Tosh was bigger than Bob
    Someone was going to use his name, so it is best that his estate did first
    http://youtu.be/Fp9IdiUYFQ8

  5. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Sergeant

    It would be of great interest to get some feedback from George Porgie, as to the long term use of Marijuana and the neurological as well as the motor skill damage that it is purported to caused?

  6. David Avatar
    David

    @Dompey

    Why don’t you make a comment and allow others the freedom to comment as they see fit, especially when you and the name you called never see eye to eye? Why continue to be the blog idiot?

  7. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Easy Sqeeze

    We have educate David and the lot because these guys haven’t a clue brother. Thanks for that piece of information because you are quite right, Peter Tosh promoted the use before Marley.

  8. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    David

    How am I being a blog idiot? The fact of the matter is, Jacob Killer Miller promoted the use of Marijuana before Marley, so don’t blame for your shortsightedness. I am expressing an opinion like you PG, De hood, AC or anyone else.

  9. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    David
    I am not going to make any argument with you David because I do appreciate the liberty that you have extended to myself another here on BU. But you stood on this blog and saw Bush Tea, De hood, Georgie Porgie, Piece, Artar, Hants and others besmear my character and you said little. I haven’t any problem with AC, Ross, Well Well, Pat, Sergeant, Moneybrain, Mistablack and many others. WHY IS THAT DAVID?

  10. David Avatar
    David

    Ignorance knows no bounds.

  11. Easy Squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    Jacob Killer Miller is on the left
    http://youtu.be/669qQShgvQM

  12. Easy Squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

  13. Easy Squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    Bammie & The Natty Locks-Herbman Style From Ghetto, Jah Is Shaking In Dub

  14. Easy Squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    Why Lee “Scratch” Perry
    Wants You To Stop
    Smoking Weed
    http://www.thefader.com/2014/11/20/lee-scratch-perry-interview

  15. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    Any new political dispensation outside of the DLP and BLP during the next election must look at the Medical Marijuana Industry and the decriminalization of marijuana.

    A cost benefit analysis would clearly show its better to decriminalize marijuana usage for medicinal usage than to imprison a user for a marijuana cigarette.

    Unfortunately, the UWI mass research on CBD is not shared with the public and its usefulness in treating epilepsy. The most potent ingredient in marijuana THC is harnessed and sold back to us by the drug companies to treat glaucoma.

    Everyone expect their medicines to be safe and effective. Thus far, only synthetic THC, in the form of Marinol and Cesamet, has obtained FDA approval, although a mouth spray called Sativex, containing THC and CBD, is in Phase III FDA trials. It may soon be available to treat spasticity due to multiple sclerosis and perhaps cancer and neuropathic pain.

    Perhaps, if political benefactors could benefit from the medical marijuana movement we would see its decriminalization. Its time enough bajans and the political directorate understand the difference between decriminalization of marijuana and its legalization.

  16. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ David

    You talk about innovation and creativity. Where is Jamaica or the Caribbean in this new corporate expansionism? There has been for 5 years a public company trading on the NY Stock Exchange that sells products from the plant – marijuana. There are hundreds of legitimate stores in CA and elsewhere selling a wide variety of plants in the USA. Its amazing how many varieties one could have. You can but on the net and have it delivered anywhere in the world. Though federal law maintains the fiction of illegitimacy. More and more States are thumping their noses at Uncle Sam.

    Our position on this emerging legitimate industry has been clear. There is an element in the plant which has caused a lot of harm to many people. That can’t be denied! However, selective breeding may have advance beyond that. In any event, nobody should have the right to say that any plant, naturally grown, is illegal.

    This ‘growing’ commercial success speaks volumes about the failures of the Rastafarian Movement, in particular, and the people of the Caribbean, more generally, to industrialize natural substances. These failures will continue. Even its relative, hemp, is used in a wide variety of products and could be a good replacement for sugar cane.

  17. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    While we send our youth to Dodds for smoking a marijuana cigarette, women beaters, murderers, rapist, Corporate bandits dine with estimable friends.

  18. Mr Merricks Avatar
    Mr Merricks

    How many young persons become alcoholics and end up psychotic

    “Whose heart wouldn’t melt seeing medical marijuana end the 300 seizures a week that 6-year-old Charlotte Figi suffered from a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome? And who would deny Chad Moore medical marijuana that stops his hours-long diaphragm spasms in an instant? Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells these heart-warming stories in Weed, his new documentary airing on CNN over the past week. But there are some things he doesn’t tell us, things that contribute more, rather than less, to the confused picture most Americans, especially young Americans, have about marijuana.

    Dr. Gupta says there are two ingredients in marijuana, THC and CBD. (To be clear, there are more than 400 ingredients, or chemicals, in marijuana. Some 60 of these are cannabinoids, meaning they are unique to the cannabis plant. THC and CBD belong to the latter group.) Dr. Gupta explains that CBD is what scientists are showing may have medical application for many different diseases.

    However, he doesn’t explain that the CBD scientists use in the laboratory has been extracted from pure marijuana, grown especially for research without any mold, fungi, or other contaminants found in most marijuana. He introduces us to the Stanley Brothers, who in addition to the 600 pounds of high-THC marijuana they produce annually for Colorado dispensaries, also grow a patch of marijuana high in CBD and low in THC. Dr. Gupta fails to ask if this strain, now being used by 30 Colorado children, is free of such contaminants.

    Charlotte Figgi’s mother relates that a friend just starting a new business extracts CBD for her daughter from the Stanley’s Brothers’ high CBD/low THC marijuana strain (which the brothers later named “Charlotte’s Web”). Dr. Gupta doesn’t ask what kinds of solvents her friend uses to extract CBD from the plant.

    He points out that most medical marijuana growers and dispensaries make their money on high THC/low CBD marijuana, the exact opposite of what the Figis are giving their daughter twice a day. But he never explains why, if CBD is the ingredient with medical utility, growers and dispensaries are trying to breed CBD completely out of medical marijuana, while increasing THC, the chemical that makes you high (CBD doesn’t).

    He visits the University of Mississippi where seized marijuana samples are tested for THC levels and learns that the average THC in today’s street marijuana is 13 percent compared to one to two percent in the 1970s. The project director tells Dr. Gupta that some samples test as high as 36 percent, which the director describes as very dangerous material.

    Dr. Gupta tells us nothing about the “crack” of marijuana, which produces 80 percent or higher THC and is causing people to overdose. Butane Hash Oil (BHO), dabbing, earwax, shatter, and budder all result from a process that uses butane oil to extract a marijuana concentrate. Both the process and the product are highly dangerous. Users put a “dab” (thus the name) of the concentrate on a heated piece of metal and inhale the vapors.

    BHO is yet another marijuana medicine developed by dispensary owners who minister to patients. Others they’ve created are marijuana “edibles” such as marijuana-infused brownies, fudge, gelato, and chocolate chip cookies. Dr. Gupta doesn’t investigate these forms of medicine. Nor does he point out that Colorado toddlers and children are showing up at emergency rooms after eating edibles and overdosing, some having to be placed in intensive care.

    He says that 9 percent of marijuana users become addicted, but he doesn’t add that nearly twice as many adolescents (17 percent) become addicted, as do 25 percent to 50 percent of daily users.”

    (Huffingtonpost Extract)

  19. Easy Squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    http://youtu.be/7jIBesNEsLc

  20. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @David
    That was just a brief submission to stir up some debate, Bob was one of the voices of protest that invigorated people from all over the world, I believe the only Caribbean person to surpass him in acclamation and popularity among a worldwide audience is his countryman Usain Bolt.

    Jamaica does have a fledgling medical marijuana industry but it is more “Mom & Pop” variety than corporate and certainly they don’t have the money or resources to combat the folks who are primed to take advantage of the Marley name. That 10 million will seem like a pittance when the profits start flowing in and unless there are some ancillary benefits to the family they may have been short changed.

    I wonder if prior to this announcement whether the Jamaica Gov’t couldn’t have come to some arrangement with the Marley family on the marketing of Bob’s name after all Bob is synonymous with Jamaica and it could have been a profit sharing arrangement.

    I have a friend whose family has a small acreage in the Blue Mountain area of Jamaica but they can’t market the coffee grown on those lands as “Blue Mountain” coffee as that name is copyrighted so they have to sell to the company that has the authorisation. The same approach could have been a legacy to the Marley family and the Jamaica but that name has been lost for the foreseeable future.

  21. David Avatar
    David

    @Sargeant

    Understood and note Bajan Green is reported to be rising to 8 feet and upwards.

    @Pacha

    Don’t the Jamaicans look North as part of their aspirational path planning?

  22. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Sergeant

    Who but Jacob Killer Miller preached a consistent message for the legalization of collie herb? He may not have had the recognition of the likes of a Bob Marley, but his music and his legacy still reverberates in the minds and hearts of those persons who love his music.

  23. FearPlay Avatar
    FearPlay

    What I can’t understand is how the movement to ban tobacco is pretty all- encompassing. I believe the UK is now looking to ban smoking in private automobiles too, yet we are about to replace tobacco with (medical) herb? Say what! Is bystander smoke beneficial?

  24. David Avatar
    David

    All decisions made in a capitalist system are made with economic consideration in mind.

    On Tuesday, 25 November 2014, Barbados Underground wrote:

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  25. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Dompey wrote “Hants and others besmear my character”

    No Dompey. You have besmirched your own character.

  26. SuckaBubby Avatar
    SuckaBubby

    Bringing it home,I am wondering if alot of the supporters for the legalization of marijuana in Barbados just want leeway to smoke freely or to actually put things in place to create industries for marijuana based products?
    I wonder how many proponents will actually go into rope making,paper making, even if just for local consumption.

    Will the status quo make provision for this to happen? Alot of the current status quo are doctors and lawyers.Custodians of the medical and legal professions who stand to lose alot of revenue from this legalization.

    Is Barbados ready to create a nouveaux riche class of marijuana entrepreneurship?Or will the old status quo try to capitalize on all fronts?

    Interesting times indeed.

  27. Damian Avatar
    Damian

    The amount of weed smoked in barbados is unbelievable. It is more culturally accepted than alcohol by the younger generation. It is every where.

    People die from prescription drugs and yet no one dies from weed. If weed used to turn people into zombies half of barbados would be zombies right now. More harm is done by locking up people for weed than the actual smoking of weed.

    If we look at the big picture, we can only conclude that locking up people for weed is wrong and bad for barbados.

    But if weed was free what would police have to do but refocus their attention to white and blue collar crimes, and that is the real problem.

  28. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Damian

    The youths in my day from Bush hall right through Station Hill and the town area, burned the collie herb twenty-four seven. And I grew up in Barbados during the early 80’s.

  29. Boy Blue Avatar
    Boy Blue

    @ Dompey
    I came back here in the early 70’s , and was at the corner telling a few stories, like those men who went to the states on immigration, when I mentioned to the guys this thing called Marijuana, when one of the guys pulled a matchbox out of his pocket, opened it, and asked me, “You talking bout this!”.

  30. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    The initial submission for the slow of mind (and they know who they are) is that Robert Nesta Marley, who was the embodiment of anti-establishment or Burn Down Babylon would have a conniption to know that his “brand” has been sold to said Babylon.

    Having said that both Ezekiel and Revelation speak to the Rastafarian endorsed concept of “.. the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations…”

    So I would disagree with the original posit for if Bob was in support of the curative properties of ganga, it would follow that he would be the first to associate his name with an enterprise that promoted its medicinal properties.

  31. Easy Squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    Peter Tosh made a prior business claim for copyright / patent
    ” Legalize it, don’t criticize it / Legalize it, yeah, yeah, and I will advertise it ”

  32. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Jacob Killer Miller called de herb de healing of de nation.

  33. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    The attached article was in The Toronto Star this weekend, the author is echoing what I said earlier wonder if he reads this blog?

    http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2014/12/28/bob_marley_marijuana_mogul.html

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