Does anyone remember the black helicopters that used to fly around Westmoreland in the early eighties? I believe they were part of Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative and Nancy's war on drugs. My wife says she used to get work picking ganja for the farmers (which was a windfall for a poor girl twice a year in rural Jamaica). She said the helicopters would fly over, then land in their fields and they would have to all run into the bush to hide. Another crazy thing she said is every hour or so the farmer would come by and scrape their hands with a knife in order to collect the hash that had accumulated on their hands from picking the sticky buds...all this from a girl who has never taken a drop of alcohol or smoked a skiff in her life...lol
