Worth A Listen: Ras Matthew ~ Ganja In My Brain

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Ras Matthew is a reggae singer from Sacramento, California.

​​Welcome to Room 420, where your instructor is Mr. Ron Marczyk and your subjects are wellness, disease prevention, self actualization, and chillin’. Today’s lesson is solidly on the chillin’ portion of the curriculum.


Worth Repeating
By Ron Marczyk, R.N.

Health Education Teacher (Retired)
Beer is to baseball as marijuana is to music.
It’s always set and setting that puts me in the zone. My nights would not be complete without the music of Ras Matthew.
Ras Matthew is a reggae singer from Sacramento, California. His songs embrace the spiritual healing experience of the herb. You don’t have to be a Rasta to understand his universal message of peace, healing and brotherhood through the ingestion of the sacrament of cannabis.
In the 1930s cannabis was rebranded as “marijuana” to help demonize this substance with racism aimed at Mexicans and black musicians playing their “Satanic” jazz music.  Unfortunately, this misinformation worked, and we are living in a world where cannabis is still seen by some as an evil drug. This is our mission to fix.

Babylon is an important Rastafari term, referring to human government and institutions that are seen as in rebellion against the rule of JAH (God). It is further used by some to mean specifically the ‘politricksters’ who have been oppressing the black race for centuries through economic and physical slavery.
Today the term can also be used in a wider sense to describe the unseen ignorant political forces that stand against our green culture. Babylon is also sometimes used by some Rastas with the more specific meaning of “police” (DEA), insofar as they are seen as executive agents of Babylon’s will.
Rastas equate cannabis and God as the same thing; taking cannabis into one’s body is seen as filling oneself with the divine.
In that context, the correct term to describe cannabis is as an entheogen (“God inside us”or “that which causes God to be within an individual”). An entheogen is any psychoactive substance used in a religious, psychotherapeutic, shamanic or spiritual context.
This healing happens in your head, not in a church, and you don’t need a middleman. I call cannabis my “Karma repair kit” because after a long difficult day dealing with unpleasant people and circumstances, it resets my consciousness to not wish ill will towards others.
The time is coming soon when this, “the healing of the Nations,” will transform the U.S. and the world.
Rastas use cannabis as a part of their worshiping of God, Bible study and meditation. Rastafari see cannabis as a sacramental and deeply beneficial plant that is the Tree of Life mentioned in the Bible.
Bob Marley and many others have quoted Revelation: 22:2, “… the herb is the healing of the nations.” The use of cannabis  is an integral part of what Rastafari call “reasoning sessions” where members join together to discuss life according to the Rasta perspective.
They see the use of cannabis as bringing them closer to God (Jah), allowing the user to penetrate the truth of things much more clearly, as if the wool had been pulled from one’s eyes. Thus Rastafari smoke cannabis together in order to discuss the truth with each other, reasoning it all out little by little through many sessions.
“The herb is the key to new understanding of the self, the universe, and God. It is the vehicle to cosmic consciousness” and is believed to burn the corruption out of the human heart.
We, the cannabis culture, are the new shamans of the 21st century!
Here’s one of my favorite Ras Matthew songs. Please support this musician by downloading a few of his songs! Enjoy tonight’s journey. Peace, not greed!
(Source of quotations: Wikipedia)

Ganja in my meditation, ganja in my brain, 
Ganja will take away my stress and strain, 
Ganja in my meditation, ganja in my brain, 
Marijuana take away my stress and pain 
Ganja is the medication, ganja is the cure 
Police have been fighting marijuana for sure 
Purify me heavens and make me feel pure 
Hundred ways to Kali
Ganja in me meditation, ganja in my clothes 
No offence I’m smokin marijuana around you 
Ganja in me daily, ganja me currency 
Ganja is the currency and daily bread
Give me revelation is the stuff which gets to my head
and it’s been growing so long that’s why we call it love spread, 
Ganja for the living and it not for the dead
couple puffs of smoke before me go onto bed
Give praise to Jah and shake out me dead
Ganja weed Kali, eh, 
Ganja in me meditation, ganja in me brain
Marijuana take away my stress and pain 
Ganja is the medication, ganja is the cure 
Police have been fighting marijuana for sure well
Ganja in me meditation, fanja in my brain
Marijuana take away my stress and pain
Well ganja is the medication, ganja is the cure
Police have been fighting marijuana for sure well
Ganja is my sword from Solomon’s grave, 
I think
Ganja in my head that are not quite the same 
Same family, same plant, different name 
Jamaica’s love spreads calling ganja
America’s people smoke ganja in the car
I’m not gonna stop smoking my herbs, well
Am I gonna stop? NO
I’m not gonna stop smoking my herbs
If they get me in touch with the Earth
Make me give thanks for what life is worth 
Two-Hundred trees, sweet trees blowing in the breeze 
When I look out to my yards and fields
That’s how I feel, it’s so real
So good I feel, gaze out from my window seat, keeping what I sow 
To the 200 Kali trees there blowing in the breeze
Ganja in my meditation, ganja in my brain
Marijuana take away my stress and pain. 
 
Also check out these other Ras Matthew songs:

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