Bob Marley was a firm believer in smoking “herb” or marijuana.
He used the drug as a religious sacrament for Rastafari. Bob thought that
smoking marijuana was a right that all Rastas had as a right of their religion.
In his song “I Shot the Sheriff”, he describes the fate of a herb grower hunted
by the sheriff. Some of the lyrics in the song show his point; “Sheriff John
Brown always hated me, For what, I don't know: Every time I plant a seed, He
said kill it before it grow, He said kill them before they grow. When in
England with the Wailers, Bob Marley and his band member, Aston Barret, were
arrested for the possession of marijuana. Even after getting out of jail, Bob
was still a firm believer in smoking herb. He continued to smoke marijuana for
the rest of his life until his death in 1980.