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Jul 15th 2008 4:38 pm

Italy Ok's Marijuana For Rastafarians

by Babi Katt

A new ruling by the Supreme Court of Cassation in Italy has sided with the Rastafarian religion's treatment of marijuana as a sacred sacrament.

The news from Rome hit the streets last Friday morning, as a case brought before appeal judges against a reggae musician sentenced to 16 months in prison by a lower court in Perugia, was overturned.

Virtually unheard of in Roman Catholic Italy, Rastafarians were presented to the court as a faith that allows its members to smoke even 10 grams of marijuana daily.

In the ruling the Court of Cassation stated, "Members of the Rastafari faith were entitled to have in possession 'abundant' amounts of marijuana since smoking is an integral part of their religion."