Posted: Jul 24, 2008, 11:57 AM CST
no1brightongirl wrote:my parents live in malta.some friends have just been for two week holiday and say the island is full of cannabis.i wouldnt know as my downfall is wine.i said to my friends i dont think thats true.your thoughts please
In Europe where wine drinking is 'culture', weed smoking is disdained. Naturally - there are industrial interests in clash. When weed becomes legalised, tobacco companies will be right out there with nicely packaged weed cigarettes. Of that you can be sure.
Of Malta itself I frankly dont know much. I haven't the least idea of its regulations and enforcements. Weed has its very special mildly sweet and acrid smell. If you have smoked it sometime you will never forget its aroma. Those that have smoked weed always retain a weakness, a sheer sentimentality, for marijuana, for it brings back nostalgic feelings and a kind of psycho-physical uptiftment. People remember the good times of the past.
But you have implied another question here - why is wine your downfall? Alcohol, of course, is very debilitating, especially for women because of their physiology. Smoke weed instead. It is not good for your lung tissue but it is nowhere as destructive as alcohol on tissue damage - once again, for women.
There is someting about beautiful places (like Malta) where one feels impelled to fulfill oneself to the most. Thus the natural beauty, enhanced by alcohol or weed, maybe even romance, however transient, that makes one go perhaps too far.
Guard against this as much as you can and I am sure you will be very happy every morning you wake up. The Greeks had a saying about this which I cannot recall just now but it fits the circumstances.
And, by the way, marijuana is a weed which is airborne and settles wherever it can. So Malta may well be full of these plants. In India there is a plant, rather a tree, called Bhang tree. It grows wild in the northern parts of India. Big bears coming down from the foothills of the himalayas are always there - 30 or 40 of them each under one tree because they are addicted to the bhang and they sleep there and even stop eating because they are so addicted.
I'm not religious at all, but nature has its beguilements. Avoid the weed simply because it grows in Malta.
I wish you the best of luck.
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