I know I've told you about the use of cannabis here where I live. I just want to make the point again about how the people here have been using the wild product that grows here naturally since they first came here about 600 to 700 years ago. The authorities have tried unsuccessfully to stop it and selling it is still a crime but when something grows wild, and is indigeneous to the region, it is very difficult to contain the growth of it.
The point I want to make is that the employers here say that they allow the use of it because it makes the workers more relaxed, they don't have as many fights among the workers if they let them use it and it also keeps them focussed on what would otherwise be extremely tedious work (try cutting sugar cane all day) The problems arise when they mix it with alcohol, which is another huge problem here. It would be interesting to see a study conducted here between the people who use it and the people who don't. I think that would give a far more valid picture than one taken of people you use it socially or recreationally. The use of it here is like cigarettes, in the same way that people used to grow tobacco and roll their own cigarettes, men here crush their own grass that grows everywhere here and smoke it as much as they would a cigarette, there's no sitting with a drink and passing a joint between two fingers as you see it done in the movies, a guy will roll his joint lick the paper to seal it, light it and hang it in his lips then get on with his job. The next time he stops for a cup of tea or his lunch or something, he'll start another. Just like you would with a cigarette. And there's no crazy people running around here, just nice, mellow, friendly chilled out people.