I had already sold herb in the US, I had friends in the business, that’s what they were doing, my best friends from school and people in Jamaica,” Jaffe says in the book. “I was trying to make a record and we were broke, so that wasn’t like some genius idea. The rest, he claims, came from a one-off ganja operation. Jaffe says Tosh got US$1,000 from Marley, which was enough to record three songs. In it, Jaffe claims Tosh was short on cash to record Legalize It and shopping for a record label after splitting with Marley and the Wailers band in late 1973. Released last year, the book is written in French and was released by Camion Blanc, a small French publisher. Jaffe and French university lecturer Dr Jeremie Kroubo Dagnini co-wrote Bob Marley & The Wailers: 1973-1976, an extension of One Love: Life with Bob Marley and the Wailers, a 2003 book Jaffe co-authored with Roger Steffens, widely considered the authority on Marley and The Wailers. But was the ‘Stepping Razor’ part of an illegal ganja trade that reportedly thrived in Jamaica during the 1970s?Ī book co-written by American Lee Jaffe, his former associate, says Tosh was part of a 1976 smuggling operation that raised money to fund his groundbreaking album Legalize It. He wrote several songs about its spiritual powers and was a passionate advocate for its legalisation.
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