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A one of a kind exhibition is debuting at a new museum
A one of a kind exhibition is debuting at a new museum
in South Dunedin.
'Hit for Six: The Story of Cannabis and Cricket' opens this weekend at Whakamana: the Cannabis Museum of Aotearoa, in Dunedin.
'Hit for Six' will start in time for the West Indies test match in Dunedin, and curator Abe Gray said he hopes many Jamaican cricket fans will come along to the museum. The grand opening of the exhibit will be from 1pm on Sunday December 1st at the Cannabis Museum, located at Cannabis House in David St.
The exhibit chronicles the history of cannabis use among cricket players and fans, both amateur and professional.
"Cannabis and cricket just seem to go together for some reason", said Mr. Gray "It is hands down the favourite sport among kiwi stoners”
The exhibit features detailed information about famous cricketers who were known to be cannabis smokers during their career.
They include Stephen Fleming, New Zealand's most successful test captain, who admitted smoking it along side Dion Nash and Mathew Hart in South Africa in 1993.
A number of English cricket players were caught using cannabis while on tour in New Zealand. England's highest test wicket taker Ian Botham was one player who admitted using cannabis during his career.
The exhibit also focuses on the story of Jamaican players in the West Indies cricket team who were inspired by Bob Marley and Rastafarian identity to become World Champions.
Their team's struggle for Test Match supremacy in the 1970's was part of a wider civil rights and anti-colonial movement.
According to Bob Marley's band-mate Bunny Wailer, appearing in the recent documentary 'Fire In Babylon', the captain of the West Indies cricket team, Viv Richard was a friend of Marley and a Rastafarian.
“In his heart burns the custom, [and] culture of Rastafari. He was Rasta-rised, but a lot of people didn't know that came from him having to do with Bob Marley,” he said.
“You would always find him in the company of the Wailers. If he had not been involved in cricket he surely would have been a dreadlocked Rasta-man, the real deal.”
The exhibit will run for two months.
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