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Ganja as a natural sign in Lindsey Collen's Misyon garson and Bob Marley's lyrics
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Ganja One cannot speak about the Rastas or the Indian religion without tackling the inexorable question of the ganja. Indeed, ganja is as much a leitmotiv in Marley’s lyrics as much as in Lindsey Collen’s Misyon Garson. In Misyon Garson, Mayk is assigned the task of bringing ganja to his mother and he carries this ganja throughout the whole of his journey. Ganja, being illegal, becomes almost a ‘burden’ for him as he encounters different adventures along his journey: “Enn pulya gandya. Samem nu bizin. Met enn sarz kont nu pu ladrog sann ku la. » The recurring question of the question throughout the text becomes indeed a symbolical sign and attains a cultural and political meaning. The omnipresence of the ganja is undeniably not innocent in the text. Ganja as a signifier is, according to the Oxford Dictionary, a “hemp plant; any of various drugs made from the dried leaves and flowers of the hemp plant that are smoke or chewed for their intoxicating effect.” However, ganja has a religious and sacred connotation for the protagonist who follows the hindu doctrine.
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