JUST IN:Rastafarian Community Seek Legalization of Marijuana
The Rastafarian Community is currently at the Milimani Law Court seeking the legalization of Marijuana.
Christine Juma 
According to the Rastafarian Society of Kenya, they are seeking authorization to smoke marijuana as a process of connecting with their maker.
In the petition, they argue that followers/believers of the Rastafari faith use bhang or cannabis by either smoking, drinking, eating, bathing, and/or burning incense for spiritual, medicinal, culinary, and ceremonial purposes as a sacrament to manifest their faith.
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They further argue that Rastafarians are a marginalized group that is apolitical thus politically powerless and often subjected to prejudice, intimidation, unwarranted searches of their persons and their homes, and prosecutions because of their spiritual use of cannabis in their private homes or designated places of worship yet the use of herb or cannabis is grounded in biblical redemption and deliverance.
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