Honestly, I’m a bit surprised. I’m sorry if this is something that it isn’t really appropriate to write about and if it might disturb some people, but my gosh, Canadians smoke weed like I don’t know what. And atleast among students in Alberta and people in general here in British Columbia, it seems quite accepted.
I don’t mind. I don’t smoke myself, but if others choose to do it, it doesn’t bother me. I find weed to be a relatively harmless drug, and as long as people use it responsibly, I guess it’s their own business. Especially if it’s bought from the person who has been growing it. What bothers me is when people buying drugs support the maffia and other illegal activites and in a way are the cause of a lot of suffering of innocent people in the earlier stages of the drug production chain. Think all the people being killed and disappearing in Colombia and Mexico due to the cocaine trade. Not thinking about where a product comes from when buying it is the worst kind of arrogance and egoism and one of the biggest problems that globalization has caused.
But the weed people smoke here seems to be grown in somebody’s friend’s friend’s backyard and a guy that was here wwoofing before me was even leaving to go working at a medicinal marijuana farm later in the spring. I feel I can’t really condemn it. I just feel surprised at how common it is.
Katja Malmborg 