Title: The ganja complex : Rastafari and marijuana /
Authors: Hamid, Ansley.
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Socioeconomic Factors; Religion; Marijuana Abuse economics; History, 20th Century; African Americans; Marijuana Abuse; Youth Drug use Trinidad and Tobago San Fernando.; Rastafari movement Trinidad and Tobago San Fernando.; Bhang (Drug); Cannabis.; Marijuana; Drug traffic Caribbean Area.; Drug traffic United States; Marijuana Abuse Trinidad and Tobago History.; African Americans Trinidad and Tobago History.; Marijuana Abuse economics Trinidad and Tobago.; Religion Trinidad and Tobago History.; Socioeconomic Factors Trinidad and Tobago.; New York City; Trinidad and Tobago; New York (State); New York; San Fernando (Trinidad and Tobago) Social conditions.; Trinidad and Tobago
Contents: Introduction: The ganja complex -- Reviving the ganja complex : the crisis of Caribbean African youth in San Fernando, Trinidad during the 1960s -- How the ganja complex was diffused -- Economic and social-organizational underpinnings of the ganja complex -- Religion and ritual in the ganja complex -- The ganja complex, Rastafari, public opinion, and law enforcement -- The ganja complex in Brooklyn : the rise and fall of the marijuana complex and the advent of cocaine -- The ganja complex vs. other marijuana-use complexes : ganja vs. "madi-'juana" -- The informal (drug?) economy -- United States-Caribbean drug connections.