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Rastafari Rootz Fest
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The Rastafari Rootz Fest was quick to celebrate the Jamaican government’s move to decriminalize ganja by hosting the Cannabis Cup Jamaica in partnership with High Times, now an annual affair held in mid-December at Long Bay Beach Park it"s alongside the Ganjamaica Cup, bringing friendly competitiveness, crafts, and wares as well as great music to the Negril waterfront.
After the Jamaican government decriminalized marijuana in 2015, the spliff-infused, Red Stripe-soaked, laid-back lifestyle espoused by so many in this coastal community has finally been officially embraced; the Cannabis Cup joined the line-up of annual events that year, before morphing into a locally produced annual event representative of Jamaica’s cultural heritage, the Rastafari Rootz Fest and the concurrent Ganjamaica Cup. While smoking the sacramental herb, whether for recreation or on religious or medicinal grounds, can no longer get you locked up, possessing more than two ounces without authorization from the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) is still a criminal offense.