

Musician Bob Marley was Jamaica's most visible Rasta and often made references to Rastafari ideals and ganja in his music (including in songs like “ Ganja Gun ” and “One Drop”).Ĭannabis was illegal in Jamaica during the rise of the Rastafari movement. Rastas, another term for followers of the Rastafari movement, use ganja as part of their spiritual practice. The term really gained popularity when it was adopted by Jamaicans - and, in particular, Jamaicans who followed the Rastafari movement, a religion that began on the island in the 1930s. Cannabis was used as a remedy for phlegm overproduction and diarrhea from the third to eighth centuries BCE and later used in Indian folk medicine as an aphrodisiac and pain killer. Indian swamis have had a deep relationship with ganja. In Sanskrit, ganja is the term for female cannabis flowers that are unfertilized.

"Ganja is a sacred plant in Rastafarian culture." Origin "They smoked the ganja as part of the religious ceremony." During the late 19th Century, “ganja” made its vocabulary debut by way of Indian laborers in Jamaica, where it became common among Jamaican fieldworkers. A term from the Sanskrit language in India to refer to Cannabis sativa.
