The Jamaican Parliament's own 2015 amendment to the Dangerous Drugs Act is a primary legal text, available at the government's own law library. Its strength is that it is the actual statute creating the sacramental exemption for Rastafari use, not a secondary description of one. Its limit is that, like any statute, it states the law rather than how it is enforced or experienced in practice, which needs a separate source.
Facts
Citation
AuthorParliament of Jamaica
Publication Year2015
URLhttps://laws.moj.gov.jm/library/act-of-parliament/5-of-2015-the-dangerous-drugs-amendment-act
Source Typelegal
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
The Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2015, read from Jamaica's own government law library, is the primary statute itself creating the sacramental exemption for Rastafari use, treated at the top tier as direct authoritative legal text for what the law actually provides. NotesThe sacramental-use provision for Rastafari.
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- Religions, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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