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The page treats ganja tea as Rubin and Comitas recorded it in rural Jamaica in the early 1970s: an infusion of ganja leaves or sticks taken as a tonic and remedy by adults and children. The rum and wine preparation is on Ganja tonic.
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Sources
- Rubin and Comitas, Ganja in Jamaica (1975): p. 42 (the grades, including green ganja), pp. 47–51 (consumption, table 2 on the uses of ganja tea, household counts), p. 53 (childhood use), p. 55 (beliefs about tea and smoking; men leaving for farm work abroad), p. 183 (appendix IV, the clinical sample).
- Comitas, "The social nexus of ganja in Jamaica" (1975), pp. 124 and 128: the same fieldwork summarised for Cannabis and Culture. It is a second account by one of the same authors, not an independent witness.
Is it cannabis?
- Both sources describe the tea as made from ganja, which Rubin and Comitas define as the cannabis plant and grade by stage (p. 42).
Title
- Ganja tea is the form both sources use. No other spelling was found in a published source on the Jamaican preparation, so the page has no redirects.
Kind and plant part
- Drink and Traditional medicine: it was drunk daily as a drink and taken for named complaints.
- Leaf: the sources name "leaves or sticks". Sticks (stems) have no value of their own in the plant-part list.
- First recorded: 1975, the year of the publication cited. The fieldwork ran from 1970.
- Still made: not known from the sources cited.
Not used
- The Minister of Health's opening statement in the legislative debate on the ganja amendment after independence, quoted by Rubin and Comitas (p. 29), mentions "drinking the tea" among ganja's supposed dangers. The year of the speech is not printed with it, so it does not set the first-recorded year.
- No photograph of Jamaican ganja tea was found; the one cannabis tea photograph found shows an infusion from Mexico.