The smell of skunk marijuana is everywhere, seeping through user's pores, tainting their clothes and backpacks. Everywhere - on the street, on the bus, in buildings, and at events. It's nauseating and alienating.
So many people who self medicate with pot... on a daily basis...
As I said to a friend, who has a pot plant growing on his apartment porch, "Remember when you would encounter some person who spoke to you, and you were almost knocked out by the alcohol on their breath - pure dragon's breath. And you would think badly of them, because here was a true alcoholic who could not make their way through life without it? Same thing with these people who have the smell of skunk saturating their very being..."
For the record, I was and am all for legal medical grade marijuana. I've met the cancer patients who say it makes all the difference. I've had the professor who lamented that her mother's eyesight could have been saved. But some people are addicts and I don't think anyone should or can trust street drugs. My friend who grows his plant says he has chronic pain and smoking makes him forget that pain. I say to him "Don't you want to rid yourself of the pain so you don't have to forget about it?" He's with the VA and the VA is federal and the doctors there are not at all comfortable about anyone's use of marijuana, home-grown and legal. I realize pain-killers by prescription can be addictive too... I do... But then we get into what smoke (and second-hand smoke) do to the lungs... Or what prescription pain killers do to the internal organs...
Ugh. It's all bad.
I hate the smell of skunk.
C 2024 Christine Trzyna
