Ganja (ePub)

As of the publication of this book, I am a third year physician in training with an in-depth understanding of the foundations of medical sciences. I was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe, and emigrated to Canada just over 12 years ago. I grew up around a lot of drugs, alcohol, and dozens of chronic diseases. I have friends and family who were slaves of alcohol, smoked in excess, or died of any of the common debilitating illnesses at the time. I always questioned why things were the way they were as I watched the people I cared about disintegrate from within. When I started medical school I had a lot of questions, but could only find a handful of answers as some of the questions were embedded in some complicated social factors. I started looking around the low income suburbs where I lived for the greater part of my life. I studied the differences and similarities to understand the changes I had observed in people who smoked cigarettes and those who smoked marijuana. The differences with those who smoked and the rest of the population in these groups ranged from benign to some unspeakable cases of drug abuse that turned some people I grew up with into daylight zombies. I have lived in four countries: Zimbabwe, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, United States of America, and Canada. Fundamentally, the drug problems in these four countries are all the same, just different drugs and/or different quality. However, the way drug problems are tackled in those four countries vary widely, but all sum up to peeing in the ocean and hoping the entire ocean turns yellow. The governments in these countries all do not pay attention to the root of the problems so they can educate the public. Instead, they try to treat what they see emanating as the problems of drug abuse-that is, overdose, psychosis, violence, and impairment-and the effects of drug abuse on loved ones. The last one is typically only a scratch on the surface, but also happens to be where most activists have put their

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