When I was in my early teens apparently I was a bit of a handful at school....I was quick to learn at the British boarding school which I attended from just 8 years of age until I was 12 and I was actually getting some of the best grades for my age in the school.....but then I had to leave because I refused a hydro-cortisone injection for child rheumatism in my leg (I had been injected before and it was such a frightening and painful memory) and ran away from the school because they had tried to force this upon me.....so I was a runaway boy......and they said that I was maladjusted because I always questioned authority and resisted when authority wanted to do anything with me.
I was hyperactive and became very anti-establishment as I learned more about my society as it was in the 70's. In 1972 I was placed in a 'comprehensive' school in the 2nd year of senior school and was completely bored by it because the standard of education was so much higher at the boarding school I had left, so for 2 years I knew most all of what the teachers were teaching in the comprehensive school and this bored me even more......It bored me to distraction....and I withdrew into my own world of learning what I was interested in........
They sent me to see a shrink after the ring leader of the schools bullies set upon me and I promptly put him thru the cleaning cupboard door in defense and I was suspended from school....This shrink talked down to me like a child and prescribed some psychotropic medicines that gave me adverse side effects, which made me sick......
Eventually after having to take these laboratory produced psychotropic chemicals for a few months I threw them all away..........but I was still hyper untill my brother shared that first hash joint with me.......and this calmed me down and put it all into perspective. I had found my medicine...... To this day nearly 30 years later I still use cannabis medicinally to control hyperactivity and also to mask the pain in my lower back more recently....
...I have been involved in the cannabis industry since I was 17 years old on a commercial basis and started growing at 18 years old in California....By the time I was in my twenties I started collecting cannabis seeds in Asia, then at 25 years old I was caught smuggling just a little of my own medicine into England from Holland and jailed for a month because I refused to pay a fine or do community service for what I considered to be a victimless crime. In the old Victorian jail in Norwich I was attacked by some football hooligans and eventually ended up in the psycho ward, because I had never had my freedom taken away from me before and found it very difficult to console the fact that I had really not done anything wrong, but was still jailed.....This whole episode just pissed me off and made me determined to try and make a change for the better concerning the draconian cannabis laws.......
In two weeks I will have a copy of the charter edition of 'International Cannagraphic' in my hands....this is a magazine that I have spent 3 years bringing together. This will be a platform for all in the cannabis industry worldwide to network and gain knowledge about cannabis. I hope for it to become the cannabis industries International trade magazine........and it will be a place where we can have our say in the media.
....so if you ask me how important cannabis is in my life.....I would say VERY!
I was hyperactive and became very anti-establishment as I learned more about my society as it was in the 70's. In 1972 I was placed in a 'comprehensive' school in the 2nd year of senior school and was completely bored by it because the standard of education was so much higher at the boarding school I had left, so for 2 years I knew most all of what the teachers were teaching in the comprehensive school and this bored me even more......It bored me to distraction....and I withdrew into my own world of learning what I was interested in........
They sent me to see a shrink after the ring leader of the schools bullies set upon me and I promptly put him thru the cleaning cupboard door in defense and I was suspended from school....This shrink talked down to me like a child and prescribed some psychotropic medicines that gave me adverse side effects, which made me sick......
Eventually after having to take these laboratory produced psychotropic chemicals for a few months I threw them all away..........but I was still hyper untill my brother shared that first hash joint with me.......and this calmed me down and put it all into perspective. I had found my medicine...... To this day nearly 30 years later I still use cannabis medicinally to control hyperactivity and also to mask the pain in my lower back more recently....
...I have been involved in the cannabis industry since I was 17 years old on a commercial basis and started growing at 18 years old in California....By the time I was in my twenties I started collecting cannabis seeds in Asia, then at 25 years old I was caught smuggling just a little of my own medicine into England from Holland and jailed for a month because I refused to pay a fine or do community service for what I considered to be a victimless crime. In the old Victorian jail in Norwich I was attacked by some football hooligans and eventually ended up in the psycho ward, because I had never had my freedom taken away from me before and found it very difficult to console the fact that I had really not done anything wrong, but was still jailed.....This whole episode just pissed me off and made me determined to try and make a change for the better concerning the draconian cannabis laws.......
In two weeks I will have a copy of the charter edition of 'International Cannagraphic' in my hands....this is a magazine that I have spent 3 years bringing together. This will be a platform for all in the cannabis industry worldwide to network and gain knowledge about cannabis. I hope for it to become the cannabis industries International trade magazine........and it will be a place where we can have our say in the media.
....so if you ask me how important cannabis is in my life.....I would say VERY!
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