Marijuana
I cannot pinpoint when exactly I started taking intoxicating substances like alcohol; but, I do remember tasting it here and there in palmwine given to me by relatives and close neighbours.
When I gained admission into the University of Calabar in 2015, I had a group of people I was always with, one of whom was ‘my bestie’ at the time – ‘IB’.
IB and I were very close – we did practically everything together in school, and also hung out after school hours. On one of those late nights in my first year, IB who had come to spend the night at my place, came with marijuana, and asked if he could smoke it.
When I obliged, he asked if I wanted to try it out, and I did try it out, but I felt nothing; and, at that moment, I wondered what the fuss was about this drug – why did everyone think it was so bad when it could not even do anything to me?
Time passed and I was frequently in the company of smokers though, at the time, I never smoked, but hey! Third party smoking is much worse. I seemed to like the smell and how I felt whenever I was around smokers. At the end of my second year, I had begun to smoke, but I could not do so regularly because not only did I not know who to buy it from, I did not know how to roll it either.
So, I would just smoke what came by me and like everything that is bad in the world, I got access to marijuana without spending any money – there were always guys who were eager to give and roll a blunt for me without my asking. In all of this, I would smoke and still function normally; while others smoked half, I would smoke a full one to get me high, and I always needed more to get me to peak levels.
Eventually, I met a guy, AY, whom I started dating. He was a smoker too and was not hiding it at all, as opposed to my previous boyfriend who would excuse himself to smoke.
When AY travelled to Abuja, he sent me a box of perfume oils, some shirts and shoes, six (6) months supply of rolling papers, organic cigarette butts, a crusher and a fresh batch of Arizona. (Arizona is a potent grade of marijuana and does not require you to smoke too much to get high).
I abused this recklessly as I smoked morning, afternoon and night. I barely went a day without being high and if you think I put a cap on it when I was home, you are sorely mistaken. One of the times that I had visited home, I had taken some of my stash with me; I had put it in my food and was eating it when my mother walked in and asked to have some of my food…
To Be Continued…
Miraculous Monday: 24th February 2025
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