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Marijuana (zamal) in Reunion Island:
" History of the zamal "
In Reunion Island, the cannabis (zamal) pushes in a wild state; the culture is prohibited, certain estimate that it could found transported and developed by the excrements of birds), but a thing is sure, of the seedlings of cannabis were indeed imported in the course of the centuries.
In Reunion Island a seedling of zamal in your garden attracts the robbers, because the night; the sheets are phosphorescent and are seen by far.
In the "Mémorial de la Réunion " (volume 2), a legend ensures that " among the many plants imported Mascareignes, there were medicinal, decorative species... or species enivrantes like the Indien hemp ".
During the XIXth century, for example, the Hindu volunteers brought with them the plant which they called " bakka " or " bongua ". The slaves also used it as comfort and during ceremony spiritual.
Thereafter, the men who worked with the fields, made at the same time entertaining and therapeutic use of it. With the end of a harvest, occasionally, the zamal was smoked at the time of the festivities. One also gave it to the cocks battles and hens, and sometimes to the dogs. It was supposed to turn the ones more aggressive and the other best layers. Later, in the seventies, people used it for fun, as the hippy way of life. The concept of drug addiction appears then in the island, with the laws agains narcotics.
" the name of Zamal".
Local name " zamal " drift of the Madagascan " zamala " (today " rangoni"), but one finds the cannabis, in the world, under more than 350 terms. In short, the " beuh " of the suburbs and the Indien hemp of the hippies, it is kif-kif.
Spanish marijuana gave marijuana, one says gandia to Mauritius, dagga in South Africa, anasha in Russia, taïma in Japan, kif in Morocco, hashish in the remainder of Marghreb. In Polynesia, it is the pakalolo, in Jamaica the ganja.
One buys " a good train ", one can, if tobacco is added, prepare one " mix " and when one rolls, one " case one to nafair "
" the Affair Pardon!'s tee-shirt".
One explained a few weeks before " the Pardon affair ", which one makes well the difference in the Reunion Island between who's smoking a joint and the one who wears a tee-shirt decorated with a sheet of cannabis. But the owner of the t-shirts' "Pardon !" shop bailed out of 10000 F of fine to have made print a sheet of zamal on tee-shirts, plus a confiscation of all his stock of clothes.
The traffic of zamal however touches sometimes the playgrounds of our school establishments, without true measures being taken to limit the culture that is prohibited, and consumption is still frequent (also prohibited ).
File by M'BOTIFENO and EUDORE.
