Entry nº 22

Personal Reaction: Police smash huge drugs centre in raid on Rasta temple

It is widely known that for the Rasta community drugs like marijuana and cocaine are used as sacred herbs to create an alternative life style in which its members use this custom of using drugs as a way of providing peace and love.
If we compare this religion with many others around the world, we will realize that they have many different and even strange ways of worshiping, all of them with a religious connotation.
So that I believe that the Rasta Community should not be treated as criminals just for buying drugs and selling them to its members. But having in mind that many dealers use sects or religious groups to hid their real activity of selling drugs from the police forces, it is not impossible to think that the Rasta Community may have some members with such purposes, but in order to prove this the police has to do an exhaustive investigation or else they can mistake worshipers for dealers or the other way round.