MelissaJKelly 2,120 Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 Lol! I shall be seeing thee on the 21st Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 I find the title of this thread baffling, I like lovers rock,dub,rebel,dancehall, trojan,ska,blue beat and only associate these wonderful sounds with dancing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 "Legal Highs" are become a problem lately. Governments continue to make each new drug illegal but fail to ask themselves why they have to keep doing this. Drug use is down to social problems - sort out the social problems and you will sort out most of the drug problems at the same time. Humans have used Cannabis since time immemorial; it has been found in pot remains (no pun intended) from Neolithic times. No amount of criminal punishment will stop its use - only make it more glamorous. Cannabis plants have recently been bred to make them stronger and more psychoactive. The reason for this is purely their illegality. The more you make something illegal the more it will be seen as something to aspire to amongst the population; especially that portion of the population that needs to turn to drugs in order to make their lives tolerable and to forget their social deprivation. Of course, not all habitual drug takers are socially deprived but a great many are and their problems are ignored by successive governments. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 Not entirely true Compo, as some leisure drugs are very expensive and are out to reach of people in so called poverty. I'm personally sick to the back teeth of this 'excuse' of being socially deprived. They are so called deprived due to their own violation. NO sympathy here I'm afraid. It's a total lack of self control ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 I once knew a girl called Moira Marley at school, wonder if she was related............I liked reggea, but have never been into drugs...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 I detest reggae and drugs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
siddha 825 Posted October 14, 2015 Report Share Posted October 14, 2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James is the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The 44-year-old, now resident in Minneapolis, is the first Jamaican author to win the prize in its 47-year history.A Brief History of Seven Killings is a 686-page epic with over 75 characters and voices. Set in Kingston, where James was born, the book is a fictional history of the attempted murder of Bob Marley in 1976. Of the book, the New York Times said: ‘It’s like a Tarantino remake of “The Harder They Come”, but with a soundtrack by Bob Marley and a script by Oliver Stone and William Faulkner...epic in every sense of that word: sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, colossal and dizzyingly complex.'Referring to Bob Marley only as ‘The Singer’ throughout, A Brief History of Seven Killings retells this near mythic assassination attempt through the myriad voices – from witnesses and FBI and CIA agents to killers, ghosts, beauty queens and Keith Richards’ drug dealer – to create a rich, polyphonic study of violence, politics and the musical legacy of Kingston of the 1970s. James has credited Charles Dickens as one of his formative influences, saying ‘I still consider myself a Dickensian in as much as there are aspects of storytelling I still believe in—plot, surprise, cliffhangers’ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted October 14, 2015 Report Share Posted October 14, 2015 I'm going to get that book for my husband! He's spent a lot of time working in Jamaica in the last 20 odd years, in particular Kingston. One of his good friends in Jamaica is the accountant for the Bob Marley family and the Tuff Gong group of companies. I'm sure this book would keep him quiet for a few days ...... 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 FLY2 #31: You are right to detest drugs but it is not always the illegal ones that do the most damage. One word....THALIDOMIDE. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted May 9, 2019 Report Share Posted May 9, 2019 Now that's how you roll a spliff! 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted May 9, 2019 Report Share Posted May 9, 2019 Coincidentally, I was chatting to the Marley family accountant today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,721 Posted May 10, 2019 Report Share Posted May 10, 2019 Early Marley Late Marley Dig!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,721 Posted May 10, 2019 Report Share Posted May 10, 2019 If yer've ever done a three hand 13 skin spliff on the back of a couple of album covers...... you should 'dig the Ganja And yet.. 'How long shall the wicked reign over my people'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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