MARIJUANA

Marijuana,

Canabis,

Pot,

Dope,

Igbo,

Ganja,

Sinsemilla,

Mary Ja(y)ne,

Esskay,

Skunk,

SK,

Kpoli,

Tafe,

Ewe ola

Lemon,

Choko,

Smoke,

Weed,

Hemp,

Spliff,

Indo......

......all these names refer to a drug made from a plant whose leaves are harvested and dried, artfully rolled up in a rolling paper, lit up with a flame and smoked through the mouth for a number of reasons...ranging from the truth to myths; superstitions to old uncles' tales; wordaroundtown to streetsagacity...even well spiced and spruced gibberish and balderdash on the internet.

So much stuff have been written about this mystery grass- some of them lofty...some stemming from prejudiced opinions...some outrightly stupid!!!

Marijuana has the ability to...

...Make stale akara taste like freshly made shawarma,

...Make mouldy Agege bread taste like freshly baked pizza,

...Make watery sugarless akamu taste like chilled cranberry juice,

...Make a night market in Ajegunle with kerosene lamps everywhere look like the streets of Las Vegas..

...Make a staircase appear on the expressway.

....Make an octogenarian look like Tonto Dike,

....Make the mouth perpetually hungry even when the stomach is bursting with uberbellefullness.

...Make you laugh yourself to tears even when there is no joke.

..Make eyes red as a baboon's rump and mouths dry as unprocessed ponmo,

....Marijuana can do many wonderful things.

Anyways, I don't know much, but this one thing I know, I am gonna tell ya.

Smoking marijuana is like a journey toward a cliff. Some will take a few steps and quickly realise, then stop.

Some will walk quickly toward the cliff and take a detour to the land of addiction.

While some will walk toward the cliff and fall headlong, splattering onto welcoming rocks of insanity.

Now, there is no way to know who will take this suicidal journey before their first drag of smoke.

Just like a lotto advert once said "e fit be you o!"

Yes, you may have heard that it makes some people smarter, read better, more alert, understand more clearly, become more confident.....but then you have to embark on the journey first to discover how it would work for you.

The outcome of your journey toward the cliff is not what you can determine.

You may just be the one to fall off the cliff!

Marijuana is very common around us...more common than mosquitoes and I am sure that if you know the right direction to walk, a seller is less than a 15minute walk from where you are right now.

My young friends,

THE RISK IS TOO RISKY TO RISK!

You can do all you need to do to be that superstar you see in your dreams...YOU CAN WITHOUT MARIJUANA !

Trust me on this...YOU CAN!

Be blessed.

KUNLE OMOPE