ROOTS FARM

05/06/2026

Livicated 🔥 Fresh off the national conversation about Jamaican identity, culture, and the place of Patwa in Jamaica's institutions, MP Nekeisha Burchell joins J.D. Vernal's Voice of the Nation for another important discussion:

Why is the world's largest reggae archive still in Los Angeles instead of Jamaica?

For more than 50 years, Roger Steffens has preserved hundreds of thousands of rare recordings, photographs, interviews, films, posters, and artifacts documenting Jamaica's musical heritage.

Now the conversation turns to a bigger question:

Should Jamaica do more to help bring this priceless cultural treasure home?

As the producers of LIVICATED – The Story of Roger Steffens' Reggae Archives, we're excited to see this issue being discussed on a national platform.

Tune in and join the conversation.

🇯🇲 The birthplace of reggae.
🎶 The world's largest reggae archive.
📚 One heritage worth preserving.

05/06/2026

Turn the speakers up and catch a vibe 🔊✨
's remix of "Holy Father" is here ❤️
Available now on all streaming platforms☀️

05/06/2026

Less than one drink a day raises the risk of seven cancers: pharynx, colorectum, esophagus, breast, liver, pancreas, and prostate. Ten cancers in total rise with intake.

A 2026 Burden of Proof analysis re-graded 843 studies and found no threshold below which the risk disappears. Across separate meta-analyses run by separate groups, the dose-response points the same direction at every site, with oral and esophageal tissue carrying several times the risk of organs downstream.

Worldwide, 741,300 new cancer cases a year are attributable to alcohol, about 4.1% of all cancers. More than 1 in 7 of those come from moderate drinking, not heavy use.

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Sources:
Dai et al., Nature Health, 2026 (Burden of Proof study)
Rumgay et al., Lancet Oncology, 2021 (global attributable burden)
Bagnardi et al., British Journal of Cancer, 2015 (site-specific dose-response)
Wang et al., Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2020 (esophageal)
McNabb et al., International Journal of Cancer, 2020 (colorectal)
Yan et al., European Journal of Epidemiology, 2022 (breast)
Hong et al., Nutrients, 2020 (prostate)

04/06/2026

For thousands of years, people looked at certain plants and saw possibility.

Food.

Fibre.

Medicine.

Fuel.

Today, most people look at the same plant and immediately think of a debate.

That might be the most successful rebrand in human history.

An object that once represented usefulness became a symbol. A symbol became an argument. An argument became an identity.

Somewhere along the way, people stopped asking a simple question:

What is it?

Instead, they started asking:

Which side are you on?

The moment a society becomes more interested in labels than reality, curiosity disappears.

Curiosity is where progress starts.

BAC 🔥Blaze against corruption

04/06/2026

CANNA+ teaches something most people spend years trying to learn.

Slow down.

The world tells us to rush everything. Rush to work. Rush to grow up. Rush to succeed. Rush to the next thing.

Meanwhile, some of the best things in life happen slowly.

Plants grow slowly.

Skills build slowly.

Trust forms slowly.

Dreams become reality slowly.

Growth isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s a quiet process happening beneath the surface long before anyone else can see it.

Keep going.

Your roots might be growing deeper than you realise. 🌱💚

BAC 🔥 Blaze against corruption

04/06/2026

🇳🇱 BREAKING: Amsterdam says no to a tourist coffeeshop ban.

The Amsterdam City Council has rejected proposals that would have barred tourists from entering the city’s famous coffeeshops, preserving one of the Dutch capital’s most iconic CANNA+ policies (via Cannabis Journal)

04/06/2026

Give To Life Tour 2026 Julian Marley

04/06/2026

In 1937, a cannabis farmer from New York named Samuel Caldwell became the first person convicted under the new Ma*****na Tax Act in the United States.

The strange part?

The law had only just come into force.

The first arrest happened almost immediately.

The first conviction happened almost immediately.

The first prison sentence happened almost immediately.

History remembers the law.

History rarely remembers the first person whose life was changed by it.

Samuel Caldwell became the first name on a list that would eventually grow into the millions.

04/06/2026

🌿 H**p can build a house, clean poisoned soil, and feed livestock. So why don't we grow lots in WA?

Gary has been doing the hard yards on h**p in WA. Passion, knowledge, and zero backing from government.

Watch them explain what WA is leaving on the table.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtZpK_0OP3c
**p

04/06/2026

🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIAN MARLEY!
Today we celebrate one of the true sons of the soil — Julian Ricardo Marley, known to the world as Ju-Ju Marley.
Born on the 4th of June 1975 in London, carrying the blood of the King Bob Marley and the strength of his mother Lucy Pounder from Barbados.
A genuine roots warrior, walking in the footsteps of his father with pure heart, conscious lyrics, and that heavy reggae fire. No hype, just real music from the soul.
Today the whole roots family lifts up their hands and gives thanks for your life, your music, and your contribution to the culture.
Keep bunin’ the fire, Ju-Ju! The message still strong.
One Love, One Heart, One Family. ❤️🌿🦁
Happy Birthday, bredrin!

"Way back in days of old
Before Babylon entered where plants were grown
A lickle draw of herb was on Solomon's throne
You can't tell I and I leave it alone" — Julian Marley