There are undoubtedly tens if not hundreds of thousands of people who take drugs on a weekend. Millions if you count binging on booze. However going back to the "weekend user" or "recreational user", I think its safe to say that the majority see themselves as well removed from the addict who uses day in day out. First up the daily user was a casual at first. You simply don't go from no drugs to drugs every day in one fell swoop. I think that fact is given and probably appears in a few official leaflets. You also see adverts about dogs being used as "mules" (carrying large amounts of class As internally) You would be blind not to notice the connection between criminal gangs and coke and anti western extremism and heroin, but what you might not know is in some cases (not all) the same gangs and/or terrorists fund child porn, female slavery/enforced prostitution and of course terrorism.
This next bit will really do your head in if you think that by smoking/growing home grown weed your contributing to the downfall of the cartels,gangs or terrorists....
OK Lets go back to the 20th century. For most of that century if you wanted to get stoned you smoked hashish or occasionally oil, thai sticks or columbian grass. You could buy, here in the UK, hash imported from Morocco (Rocky) Lebanon (Red Leb, Gold Leb) Turkey (Glimmus or Mirror Bar), Menali Charris (the champagne of hashish) Afghan Black and Pakistani Black (Red Seal, Gold Seal) Algerian hash with the crossed gold swords, Nepalese temple ball a real heavy black 'ash, Slate/Pollen from north Africa usually Morroco. It came in 2 strengths and thicknesses 7/11 and 11/11 the first being thicker and uniform strength. Slate bars were initially used to line the smugglers boats hulls. No smell till ignited and still saleable unlike rockwool etc. Thats why some slates were realy sticky and full of THC and others were very week. The 11/11 had no paper/film/hessian between the bars, so the movement of the boat would push any hash oil to the outer bars, like centrifugal force.
Back then you could become an hashish connoisseur much like a wine lover. Then came skunk.
Soon the demand for all these middle eastern and asian farmers produce dwindled as half the UK got loft conversions for skunk growth. That meant that farmers in Morocco, Lebanon etc needed a new cash crop quickly. Enter the Dragon - poppies - heroin. The once fairly peaceful (stoned?) farmers suddenly had a crop worth ten times more money. They bought weapons to protect themselves (usually from the west) and rather than kill each other as the politicians had hoped they turned on their perceived enemy.... the West.
Therefore its perfectly feasible that the boom in weed home growing directly contributed to anti western extremism. Wotta bummer of a bad trip.
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