The U.S. reclassification of cannabis is being celebrated. But for Jamaica's small farmers, the question is not whether the door is opening — it's who gets to walk through it.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 28, 2026 - For generations, Jamaica's ganja farmers cultivated something the world would eventually come to covet — not merely a crop, but a cultural identity. Rastafarian spirituality, Bob Marley, the Rastaman Vibration — these were the organic brand-builders whose labour and lives constructed the global mythology of Jamaican cannabis long before any multinational ever ran a single clinical trial.