Although smoking marijuana is widespread throughout the world, Jamaica has one of the most profoundly rooted cannabis cultures. The Rastafari, a 20th-century movement that reveres marijuana as a sacred plant, originated in Jamaica. They believe that smoking marijuana fosters calm, love, and depths of reflection and medication that can serve as a gateway to the divine.

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Growing, buying and smoking cannabis legally inside a Michigan business was an alien concept during marijuana’s decades of prohibition. But it’s happening today in Kalamazoo, and everyone 21 and older is welcome. A cannabis consumption lounge has opened in Kalamazoo — only the third in Michigan to open. The business is called Only Alien Cannabis Co., which opened earlier this month at 4525 West KL Ave. It’s similar to a bar, but with marijuana instead of alcohol.

https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2024/02/marijuana-smoking-lounge-opens-in-kalamazoo-one-of-michigans-first.html