Caley Cannon

Entheogenic Healing in Rastafari: Decolonization through Cannabis, Consciousness, and Collective Ritual

June 16, 2025 Anna Waldstein, Caley Cannon

Rastafari is a Pan-African spiritual, socio-political, and ecological movement that uses the Herb (Cannabis spp.) as an entheogenic agent for decolonizing consciousness to promote well-being. The movement counters the centuries of injustice and oppression perpetrated through the trans-Atlantic slave trade with a power derived from links to African livity, a core spiritual lifestyle that...