Ziggy Marley, son of Bob Marley has disclosed that he began smoking marijuana at a very tender age of nine. He acknowledged that his father was in support of his smoking because it is part of the rastafarian culture.
Ziggy who also a musician like his father acknowledged that he was a little too young to start smoking marijuana but according to him it was a norm in his culture.
Explaing how he began smoking at age 9, he said;
“Smoking marijuana wasn’t considered a bad thing in Rastafarian culture… It wasn’t something to hide from the kids”
Explaing how his father supported his decision he said;
‘I wouldn’t have let myself do it in my father’s place’, he explained. But it was a part of our religion – we’re one of those ancient cultures with traditions that modern society wouldn’t accept.’
Adding that Marijuana heightened his spirituality he said;
‘When I first consciously decided to smoke weed as a teenager, I approached it from a spiritual point of view…It’s given me more insight into myself and into my spirituality, and I use it as a form of influence when reading scriptures and books about spirituality. I use it to give me a different perspective so that my mind isn’t in the same place that it normally is. I turn into a shaman.”
Explaining how smoking Marijuana was more than just smoking but a religious thing he added;
“It was never just about getting high – I educated myself about it in terms of how Yogis in India use it and I went down that route with it, I didn’t go down the fun route.’’