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TRIBUTE: The Dagga Couple’s Jules Stobbs ‘taught us how to disobey bad laws’

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In the early hours of the morning of 3 July 2020, Jules Stobbs of The Dagga Couple was shot and killed in the bedroom of his beloved Jazzfarm, where he had been sleeping alongside his life partner Myrtle Clarke. In her tribute to Jules, delivered before a throng of mourners on Saturday 18 July, Myrtle spoke of the loss to herself and the cannabis activist community. Jules taught us how to disobey bad laws, she reminded us, and in the process gave us legal access to cannabis through the highest courts in the land.

Thanks to everyone for being here with us today. Those who are here at The Jazzfarm and those joining us in South Africa, the rest of our continent and around the world. If circumstances were different, I know that we would also be joined by all the communities we love and I feel the presence of each and every one of you – our gogos, Rastafari brothers and sisters, Julian’s family in the UK and our thousands of friends across South Africa and the world.

In the last two weeks of intense shock, I have found warmth and comfort in cannabis and tobacco and drawn on the wisdom of nourishment provided by all our years of plant teachings. Julian and I created something by tapping into so many different communities who provide inspiration, expertise and deep love. Those who make the laws know nothing of the power of the plants and the destruction that their ignorant laws cause. Our governments are locking us out of our own minds.

Corruption and the extreme poverty that resulted from it killed Julian. It takes a lot to be a good person and try to make the world a better place. It also takes certain skills and education. When we came home from the United Nations in March, Jules was very angry. What you experience in those hallowed halls of power is a deep, deep divide between civil society and the delegations from the member states.

Our biggest fear is that you will capture our cannabis, invade our homes to count our plants and continue to persecute us so that you can hold onto your power and control and buy your fancy cars with the proceeds of our pain.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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