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Ganja in Jamaica

A Medical Anthropological Study of Chronic Marihuana Use

by Vera Rubin and Lambros Comitas

A major study of cannabis use among working-class Jamaicans, sponsored by the US National Institute of Mental Health. Its findings on the social and cultural place of ganja challenged official assumptions and influenced later policy debates.

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