I have been smoking ganja since I was eighteen years of age. I am now fifty, and I have never been to a doctor for any ganja related ailments. Even in Trinidad today, ganja is used by the East Indians in their Temples as a form of worship without any government interference or restrictions. If ganja was not available in Jamaica as a sedative to keep poor people calm, the island would have experienced anarchy already. There is no end to the praise of ganja among the brethren.
Ritual smoking follows the same pattern wherever it is observed.
A package of herb is produced, generally wrapped in old newspaper or a brown bag. Several strong pulls of smoke are taken and deeply inhaled. The smoker then seems to go into a deep trance-like state, exhales, repeating the process two or three times, then the pipe is passed to another person. The second type is the regular chillum made out of a cow's horn into which a cutchie is placed. The smoking end is a rubber tube attached to the small end of the horn.