Greetings, I would just like to remind you, that this is an International forum of reasoning, and you just have to be very careful about misquoting African liberators like myself, and Ayinde, because there are those, who will be glad to jump on that bandwaggon. Please go back and read my post as well as Ayinde's post, and you will see, that at no time did we bash the lovely ganja tree, as you have written below. Niether were we opposed to the useage of the plant for medicinal uses, but I did speak against the smoking of anything at all. It is my opinion, that the human race, were given their noses and lungs, to breed in fresh air, as well as to exhale, and smell things etc. but not to smoke.

No, I didn't literally mean "bashing". I used bashing because everyone was adamantly opposed to its usage...except for Prophet Selassie and Fyahman.

I am aware of the millions of hours, of productive time, which was stolen from African people, all over this earth, as a result of imprisonment for ganja, and we are still living in the most degrading conditions, as a race of people upon the face of this earth. I will repeat it again, we do not have to smoke to live, and so, I am not going to be preaching a doctrine, encouraging smoking parties, which can result in thousands of our following generation, being dragged off to their jail houses, on a yearly basis, leaving suffering children and families, short of man power and abilities, to care for our race. If any young or old person, pays me a visit, and we have to have any reasoning, you can rest assured, that instead of handing him a steam pipe, or a kutchie, or a spliff, I am going to hand him, a mango, or an orange, or an apple, or a glass of fruit juice for his nourishments. You are totally forgiven for misquoting me, but please make the needed corrections, here on this post.
Again I send many oceans of blessings and self determination to African people everywhere.
ONE BLACK HEART ONE BLACK LOVE
Baba Ras Marcus