The Government, Cannabis and Your Health

The government, cannabis and your health.

 

What is going on with the British government and cannabis?  Or more accurately, the govt scientist advisors and cannabis?

As an ex-smoker of thirteen years of the weed, I am incredulous of the attitude and statements of these scientists. 

They say that cannabis use is less dangerous than either tobacco or alcohol.

What?!! 

Since when did tobacco or alcohol send people into mental institutions? 

When did they cause crippling paranoia and mental illness?

Eight of ten people who are in or have been in a mental institution have had a history of cannabis use. 

EIGHT OUT OF TEN.

 

I have battled and struggled with paranoia for fourteen years, a year longer than I took the stuff. 

Awful debilitating, convincing paranoia; a mental illness.

Thankfully I have never been in a mental institution, but I certainly sympathise with those who have,

considering eight of ten are, or were, in there probably because of cannabis.

There is always a price to pay when a person takes drugs. 

But you only find out that price when its too late and the price is being paid by you.

 

I took the drug as a lifestyle, as a social lubricant instead of drinking.  Not occasionally,

but every day and evening if I could afford it. 

The first time I took it I thought 

‘This is lush, brilliant.  I can switch off and relax, chill out and enjoy music’, and any other stimulus in an enhanced way. 

Tv, films, socialising, sex; all seemed more enjoyable and sensual, I drank it all in and wanted more.

 

I rapidly became chilled and relaxed in my attitude to anything,

and that became an attitude of  ‘I dont care, as long as I get what I want, and my dope to enjoy it with’

I would get stoned in the lunch hour at work and perform poorly, or take the afternoon off. 

Then take the next day off and get stoned.  Soon that job would be lost.

‘So what.’ I thought.  I would get another one, menial and needing no thought or concentration,

or go on the dole for month after month which turned into year after year.

Maybe a temporary rubbish job for a week or two in a half hearted attempt to get back into the workforce. 

As soon as I got paid I would buy some weed and get stoned.  Then the job would hit the deck.

No work. Just being a stoner.

 

After a couple of years, stretching to three, my social life changed.  Not much time in pubs,

just getting stoned at home or friends houses, and maybe a club on the weekend.

I experimented with other drugs like E, acid, speed and mushrooms.  But dope was my poison of choice.  Every day.

 

I became interested in astrology,eastern astrology, and that combined with psychology and cannabis,

all of which I used to view the world and make sense of it, was having an effect.

Paranoia was interfering with my thought processes.  Madness was beckoning.

I became a Christian and at exactly the same time stopped smoking dope.  But every year, almost,

I would go on a bender and smoke it again for a week or two and cause mayhem and destruction.

I have lost jobs, respect and it was part of the reason for the breakdown of my marriage.  I hate the stuff.

 

Anyway, those scientists sacked by the government.  I would stake my life on the fact that cannabis is far,

far more dangerous than tobacco and alcohol.

If a study was made on a hundred thousand regular cannabis users,

a hundred thousand tobacco smokers and a hundred thousand drinkers what would be the result?

I would guarantee the dope users would by far and away have lazy,

under-achieved lifestyles with mental health problems and other drug abuse going on. 

 

That is obvious and common sense.  Sure you get the dope smokers clamouring to defend their use of it,

with all sorts of reasons for putting it into a positive light.  I used to be one of them.

And I am still suffering the price of using it.  Maybe one day I will be completely free of its insidious effect. 

 

Watch out, its nasty stuff.