News_Image_File: The beach at Negril, a popular tourist destination, particularly among those on the trail of ganja. While legalisation drives have scored major victories in recent months in some US states, and the government of Uruguay is moving toward getting into the pot business itself, the plant is still illegal in Jamaica, where it is known popularly as 'ganja'.

It's special for the ladies,'' a pot farmer nicknamed 'Breezy' says as he shows off several varieties on his plot. And this one here is the chocolate skunk. 'This one here is the original sinsemilla, Bob Marley's favourite.

Similar tours are offered just outside the western resort town of Negril, where a marijuana mystique has drawn weed-smoking holiday makers for decades. News_Rich_Media: Captain Crazy tour at Nine Mile, Jamaica Here, in Jamaica's verdant central mountains, dreadlocked men escort curious visitors to a farm where deep-green marijuana plants grow out of the reddish soil.

The tours pass through places such as Nine Mile, the tiny hometown of reggae star and famous pot-lover Bob Marley. BORDEAUX and Champagne have their wine tours, and travellers flock to Scotland to sample the fine single malt whiskies.Д«ut in Jamaica, farmers are offering a different kind of trip for a different type of connoisseur.Д¬all them ganja tours: smoky, mystical - and technically illegal - journeys to some of the island's hidden cannabis plantations, where pot tourists can sample such strains as 'purple kush' and 'pineapple skunk'.

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