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I was hyperactive during my younger years and I was the only one not bothered by it, but I drove everyone around me crazy. I did home improvements, repaired cars and did all kinds of other business on the side. If an idea popped into my head at one o'clock at night, I would jump out of bed and do it. My mother used to say:"Boy,you are driving me nuts." I have back problems and knee complaints, but most of all I am neurotic and a bit of weed helps a lot. It makes me comfortably relaxed. I used to be very much against drugs. I thought all users where weaklings and didn't want to have anything to do with them. I did have one friend who smoked. He smoked Thai weed, even when we were driving. We used to go out for a drive regularly,just cruising around for a bit. I was a passive smoker, without even noticing it. One time, while stepping out of the car, I noticed that I was calmer and giggling. I'm quite giggly anyway, but this was a lot worse. That night I slept like a bomb. After that, I smoked my first joint. I will never forget it. It was at a place where they had a house dealer. From then on, I smoked hash. It made me sleep well, it caused enormous fits of laughter and I always felt chatty and comfortable. I discovered weed at a later stage, because I started working in a coffee shop. That was ten years ago. I learned a lot about soft drugs there- I used to talk with people about it and realized that a bit of weed is actually very healthy and not harmful. Weed and hash used to be associated with hippies, bums and squatters and remained a taboo. That is starting to change. 'Normal people' - and we are all normal people, after all - who used to be skeptical about it, have started to think differently now. A history teacher used to come by white I was working in the coffee shop. He had been standing in front of his class, stoned out of his mind, for 22 years. This man told me that if he didn't go to school stoned for a change, they would probably notice. He always spent 92 Euro and bought tots of different kinds of cannabis to roll his joints with. I had lawyers come in to buy weed, all kinds of people, really. At one point, I started investigating cannabis more closely: where does it come from; how did it come into being; how did they use it in the old times? I discovered that it has been known for thousands of years- It's one of Mother Nature's plants. Because of my job at the coffee shop, where I sell weed and hash, I regularly meet patients that go there to buy their bit of weed- These people are generally a little older, and used to reject the idea of cannabis before they became sick. Once they were ill, they went through all the medicines and doctors in the world and finally learnt that cannabis might help them. Really, I've had them in there, people that had been on strong medication for years. You couldn't even talk to them, but they buy a little weed to try. They go home and brew a pot of tea with it, or something. I've seen them return with tears in their eyes and they say,"If only we had discovered this sooner!" People who hadn't been able to control their spasms for years managed to do so with one little joint. So what are we talking about then? All pills are prepared with chemicals. I know people who have to take twenty of them a day, but they don't have to anymore because of just one joint. It's also an enormous cost saver on medication. We once had a customer there who had meningitis. He lived in a care home and the only way to feel a little better, to get through life, was to smoke a joint. His carers dropped him off in his wheelchair at the coffee shop in the morning and picked him up again at eleven in the evening. He would sit and smoke throughout the day. I personally think that this is a bit over the top, because you should do everything in moderation. But then again, if you are really ill and suffering from all kinds of discomforts so that taking part in life has become hell in itself, this natural product does offer a way out. There are, for instance, people who have had a serious accident, who regain hope through that little joint, simply through a joint. The government is still skeptical about it. I understand that, because the pharmaceutical industry would receive a deadly blow if this became known. They wouldn't be able to control the money involved in this business. They 't earn a penny from this. I believe that there is more between heaven can't earn a penny from this. I believe that there is more between heaven and earth, and that you can solve a lot of the problems with your own body and soul. If a joint can help you with this, then why shouldn't you use it? I am very tense by nature, I think too much and can't calm my mind down completely, but a joint helps me achieve that. I have been smoking marihuana for sixteen years now and haven't regretted a second of it. If I were to go to a doctor who didn't know me at all and tell him that I have been smoking for sixteen years, he would probably label me a 'junky'. The media plays an important role in all this. When they show a coffee shop, they always find the worst looking people, who are totally wasted, but never Jan the housepainter or Peter the milkman or Adam the lawyer, who all come to buy their weed. That's what they should show for a change: normal people with jobs that also come in to buy their bit of weed. Holland is hemp country. It has been for twenty years, but has only started to come out now. They should inform people more about coffee shops on television. They're so good at making program. They spend millions on them. Why not spend a few hundred thousand on a program about coffee shops? Show a different one every week: this is it; this is what it does to you; this is how you roll a joint. Then it could finally escape the taboo. But that won't happen. They will just spend a couple of hours showing how bad it is. There are a lot of elderly people who wouldn't mind seeing the inside of a coffee shop. Sometimes I get them coming in here. They see that a lot of relaxed people are sitting in here, all of whom look perfectly respectable, not junkies. Those people really enjoy just sitting here and drinking a cup of coffee. |
