Rastafarianism
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Saturday July 12, 2008
Rastafarianism:
Italy’s highest criminal court has ruled that the fact Rastafarians consider marijuana use a religious sacrament should be taken into account if they are tried on trafficking charges, lawyers in a recent case and news reports said Friday.
The Court of Cassation threw out the drug trafficking conviction of a 44-year-old Italian Rastafarian, ruling that the amount he possessed was in line with the heavy use that comes with his religious beliefs.
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Friday November 16, 2007
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As a Rastafarian who believes that selling, trading and possessing marijuana is “a God-given right,” Smith had asked his lawyer to argue his point of view in an attempt to reduce the state’s recommended sentence.
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Monday July 23, 2007
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Almost half a century after the first 12 Caribbean settlers migrated to Ethiopia, advancing a Rastafarian dream that the world’s African diaspora must return to the spiritual motherland, few if any Rastas have been granted citizenship.
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Friday May 4, 2007
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Rastas will receive thousands of pounds in compensation after cops wrecked their temple in a drugs raid.
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Thursday April 12, 2007
Rastafarianism:
In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: “These premises have been used in part as a Rastafarian temple, however, it is believed that a high level of serious criminality has been operating from here which is adversely affecting the local communities.”
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Tuesday January 9, 2007
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Indigo Freemanvibe, who claims to be a spiritual leader within the Rastafarian sect, contends that she has been subjected to civil rights violations by jail guards who have demanded she remove her head wrap before entering the prison to visit her husband.
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Friday March 31, 2006
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Chicago (Reuters) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued United Parcel Service Inc. on behalf of a Rastafarian, claiming UPS discriminated against his religion by refusing him a job because of his beard.
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Monday March 27, 2006
Rastafarianism:
In death, as in life, Mortimo St George Planno brought the various strands of the Rastafarian movement together, at a packed thanksgiving service remembering his life and work yesterday at the Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Church, 89 Maxfield Avenue in Kingston.
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Thursday March 9, 2006
Rastafarianism:
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Mortimo Planno, a philosopher regarded as a key figure in the development of the Rastafarian religion, has died. He was 85.
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Monday February 6, 2006
Rastafarianism:
A polygamous Rastafarian police inspector is contemplating taking the department of home affairs to court for the department's refusal to issue marriage certificates to him and his two wives.
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Thursday January 19, 2006
Rastafarianism:
When the police forced their way into a Rugby man's home to arrest him for driving at a traffic warden they found more than 280 cannabis plants in various states of maturity.
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Monday September 5, 2005
Rastafarianism:
From Cape Town, to Jozi, to Banjul and now Geneva, there is no stopping Rastafari lawyer Gareth Prince in his cross-continental fight to be admitted as a practising attorney and for Rastafarians to be allowed to use cannabis.
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Friday February 4, 2005
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Addis Ababa - Celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the birth of the late reggae superstar Bob Marley have moved into full swing.
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Friday January 14, 2005
Rastafarianism:
The widow of reggae legend Bob Marley has distanced herself from reports that she plans to exhume his remains in Jamaica and re-bury them in Ethiopia.
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Thursday January 13, 2005
Rastafarianism:
The remains of Bob Marley, whose lyrics became the rallying cry of black liberationists in the Third World and dope-smoking students in the West, are to be reburied in Ethiopia 23 years after his death.
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Friday November 12, 2004
Rastafarianism:
Two proponents of legalizing marijuana were convicted yesterday of misdemeanor counts of possession of marijuana during three protests at Independence National Historical Park after a federal judge rejected their claim that smoking was constitutionally protected because they are Rastafarians.
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Wednesday September 22, 2004
Rastafarianism:
A Burlington County man has filed a lawsuit against a former employer he claims fired him after learning of his political views and religious beliefs.
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Wednesday August 11, 2004
Rastafarianism:
Knysna - It seems as if the idea for the first Amsterdam-style coffee shop in South Africa is going up in smoke.
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Thursday June 17, 2004
Rastafarianism:
High tea will be on offer in Knysna next month, if a Rastafarian community opens the country's first dagga "coffee shop".
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Saturday June 12, 2004
Rastafarianism:
Evangelism targeting members of the Rasta community form one of the major articles included in the June 2004 edition of Charisma magazine.
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Monday April 12, 2004
Rastafarianism:
Rastas neither cut their hair nor comb it, based on an interpretation of the Bible, nor do they eat meat or consume drugs - legal or illegal - with the exception of marijuana, which they consider sacred.
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Tuesday March 23, 2004
Rastafarianism:
After a lifetime of campaigning for the repatriation of Rastafarians to Ethiopia, their spiritual homeland, Jah Lloyd, the outspoken Rastafarian activist, died last week in that east African country, Sunday Observer sources said. Jah Lloyd, whose real name is Lloyd Young, was in his 60s.
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Tuesday November 18, 2003
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For decades the Rastafarian community, in their spiritual home here, had not been taken seriously and Ethiopians have even termed them as ludicrous.
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Monday November 3, 2003
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ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands (AP) -- Rastafarians in Tortola for a weeklong summit praised the new government for revoking a law banning their entry to the British Virgin Islands.
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Friday August 29, 2003
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ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands (AP) -- Rastafarians can now legally visit this British Caribbean territory, following the removal of an executive order banning the religion's adherents from entering, the government said Thursday.
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Most Read about Rastafarianism
- For Ethiopia's Rastafarians, a promise still not fully kept
- Founder of Rastafarianism, Mortimo Planno, dies
- Rasta man 'dreadlocked' about two wives
- Judge Doesn't Buy That Marijuana Is A 'God-Given Right'
- Rastafarian wins appeal against conviction in marijuana case in Italy
- Man grows his own cannabis for 'religious purposes'
- Rasta lawyer to petition UN for right to dope
- Rastafarian rips treatment at county jail
- London police raid Rastafarian temple
- Large congregation pays last tribute to Rastafarian patriarch, Mortimo Planno
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