So close and yet so far

I read with a great joy the news of the legalisation of the Marijuana herb in Washington State, up in America.

To me it registered a new hope for the many men and women who have been at the receiving end of police abuse due to them possessing a certain amount of ganja. I have voiced my opinion regarding the use of ganjah on many instances and at worst I was called an addict of the herb, to which I would always laugh.

For many an educated people, Ganjah is said to be a drug but I promise you (and I bet you) that many many people, including the ones who criminalise it, use it for smoking, more than anything else. They are too ashamed of themselves to come out to the public they so love being a part of, and tell us they smoke the weed (not that its any of our business). They are so scared of what their friends and peers will think and say of them, that they too have began believing that the use of Ganjah is the worst thing they could do.

Honestly? How many people crash their cars when they are smoked? How many crash their cars and murder people when they are drunk? In fact, the clever people of our country smoke weed themselves and go and produce a statistic that says that of the many road accidents and road fatalities, more than half are caused by drunk people and their drunk siblings.

On the last post to this blog, under topic "Police run our Country", I charged that I had experienced ill-treatment at the hands of police for allegedly possessing the herb, but to later realise that they use it more than I was alleged to have. In South Africa, most people know where the plantations of ganja are, even the political leaders, but none had ever said to government agencies "hey, let's go to my home, there's a ganja farm there that we should destroy". Never!

South African politicians and government people know who farms, who buys in bulk and they know where the consumers are and who they are. They don't have any reason to have the weed criminalized except only a couple of know-it-all scientists whose heads are also heavy with the highest meditation from the herb.

However, my aim for this post is not to talk about how much our politicians protect the weed but rather I want to urge even our government to look, as usual, to the Americans and take example from there, if they fail to do so with Holland. Ganjah must receive the status of a medicinal herb and must be freed to adults for recreational use. People of the world use Ganjah for recreational purposes but those who seek to demonstrate their control over the rest of the world are consistently jailing people for something that does not cost any government a cent.

Although it may take the longest of times for the official and much anticipated legalization of the herb, the Dutch and the American (although just proportionally) have come out of the closet to admit to the world that they smoke the weed and they wish to do so legally, without being constantly questioned by your very subconsciousness about what fate would befall you if the clever people got you.

"There will be no more illegal humiliation, no more police brutality and there will be no more need to smoke and hide, when you know you're taking a legal right" said Peter Tosh in the song Legalize Marijuana.

I have seen a thousand people smoke Ganjah for decades none of the stuff they say Ganjah does ever befell any of the people in the thousand I have spoken of. The governments are run by liars and they seek to hide the truth from the masses. Now let them tell us why they fight so hard to keep Ganjah illegal when we know that everybody wants it to be decriminalized.

It is during these times that we need the Americans to influence the affairs of Mzansi; when an issue of international interest like this must be talked about.

Now, let us speak.