Irie Wednesday: Prophet Benjamin – “Field of Weed”
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 4:20 pm | By: Cannabis Karri
Welcome to our new music lineup on the Daily Toker Tunes. Today and every Wednesday is now designated as “Irie Wednesday”. We’ll be bringing to you all the best reggae, ska, dancehall, and reggaeton music me and our volunteer music editors can find.
Coming up for the rest of your week you’ll hear “Groovin’ Thursday” and “Rockin’ Friday”. If you are a musician or band that would like your 420-friendly tune played on the Daily Toker Tunes, just send me an email at stash@norml.org
Prophet Benjamin is from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, where national elections were held on Monday and the United National Congress Party leader, Basedo Panday called for a new approach to dealing with marijuana in the island republic where selling stings have been set up recently to entrap tourists. “I think we ought to look at that to see whether prohibiting things really ends the problem,” Panday said during a pre-election radio forum. Panday recalled the “old days,” when there was a shop selling “ganja” in Princes Town and people would smoke it in chillums on Saturday nights after working in the fields all week. “It never was a problem.” Marijuana laws throughout the Caribbean remain strict due to the US putting pressure on local governments to crack down on all illegal drugs. Trinidad and Tobago is the birthplace of calypso music, and it is no stranger to reggae root music. Dancehalls are still popular where you can hear reggae beats spilling out into the streets. There also must be fields of weed somewhere on the island paradise to inspire Prophet Benjamin to write todays music stash.
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Prophet Benjamin
“Field of Weed” (mp3)
from “Reggae Roadblock 3″
(Caribbean Music Group)
