Bob Marley drinks, luggage, stationery, hotels and video games could soon appear after the late reggae star’s family struck a merchandise deal.

“We’re open to licensing just about anything,” said the late reggae icon’s daughter Cedella. But she added: “If it is not right, we will not do it.”

The family has teamed up with private equity firm Hilco to capitalise on his name and songs and to stop bootleggers.
A Bob Marley lager and coffee will be among the first items on the market.

Headphones, snowboards, shoes, musical instruments and electronics are on a list of other products that will be developed in a major expansion of Marley’s official merchandise range.

World armies still use psychotropic drugs to make fearless machines of their soldiers.

It is an open secret that US servicemen were taking pills against fear during military actions in Iraq. The ephedrine-based psychotropic medications reduce pain and stress reactions, although they also have a side effect – sudden attacks of anger and sadism.

The pills generated quite a number of international scandals in the world. Two F-16 pilots bombed a column of Canadian military men by mistake in April 2002 in Kandahar. It was later determined that the two pilots were under the influence of amphetamine stimulants which they had taken prior to the task. A fearless soldier is definitely a plus, although anti-fear pills do not make invincible soldiers.