Bunny Wailer Calls Out Marley Estate On Recent Cannabis Deal

“The Marley Natural deal must be publicly opposed,” says veteran entertainer Bunny Wailer. In light of the recent deal between the Marley estate and international cannabis company Privateer Holdings, Wailer, who has long been an advocate for the legalisation of marijuana, believes that the venture should not be allowed to gain success.

Following a recent Sunday Gleaner article which highlighted the pros and cons of the deal, Wailer has come out in full opposition of the move by the Marley family. Having been intimately involved with the move to alter the island’s laws surrounding the issue,

Bob Marley’s granddaughter in fight to protect Jamaica’s ‘cradle of Rastafarian culture’

 

As the godfather of reggae, Bob Marley created a global soundtrack for the Rastafari culture, spreading its message of freedom around the world and encouraging the oppressed and impoverished: “Stand up for your rights.”
More than three decades after the Jamaican singer’s death, his eldest granddaughter, Donisha Prendergast, 30, has adopted the same rallying cry as part of an effort to halt the seizure of the historic site on which the movement that inspired Marley’s music laid its first foundations.
The showdown centres on Pinnacle, a 500-acre hilltop site in Sligoville, Jamaica, that was once home to the island’s first self-sustaining community of freed slaves and their descendants. Founded in the 1940s, it is considered the cradle of Rastafari, the African-based spiritual ideology that infused Marley’s anthems such as One Love, Buffalo Soldier, Iron Lion Zion, and Get Up Stand Up.
“Rastafari and Bob Marley gave the world the ideology of ‘One Love’ and it all began at Pinnacle,” said Ms Prendergast.
“Could you build on the pyramids of Egypt? Could you build on the historic spaces of Pittsburgh? No. Then why do they do this here?… We need the attention of the world to help us tell our people and our leaders how important it is to preserve this place, not because it’s prime land and can  but because it’s our history.”

Bob Marley, who died of cancer in 1981, at the age of 36, was one of the bestselling music artists of all time, with sales of more than 75 million singles and albums to date.

New Bob Marley And The Wailers Film Coming

Decades after his death Bob Marley is still making a profound impact on the world with his musical message. And now there is a new Bob Marley and the Wailers biopic in the making.According to Indiewire, the film is being written by Barry Morrow (Rain Man) and producer Cathy Schulman (Crash). Mandalay Pictures is the company behind the project titled Buffalo Soldiers,