No man, I look completely opposite of that. When I'm smoking I'll listen to music, and watch the colours of leaves change under busy squirrels searching out food or calling for a mate.
I really missed the absence of squirrels in New Zealand. Despite their small, often overlooked role in a forest, they're very active and social vermin. So far I haven't spotted any grey squirrels, especially now that black squirrels have gentrified their areas with their higher tolerance of colder weather and faster breeding habits (there may be a government breeding facility replacing all of our adorable grey squirrels). My theory is they're adapting to the social pressure of cities planting better green zones and more mast trees, but I think maybe there's also the pressure of more competition in these areas as more animals move into these small reserves. So they compete with us and them, and have learned to benefit from humans given allh the extra warmth cities retain. Seagulls do the same and have a higher reproduction rate of raising successful children in our cities than they do in the wild, but imagine their diets now. Maybe not as bad as the seeds and nuts people place out in their bird feeders or the squirrels that go through neighbourhoods finding the food people leave behind.
But yes it does feel nice having medicinal weed once again. It helps with inflammation and muscle stiffness. I find I can loosen up the tension in my back too. Really helps a bunch, except this strain, Ringo's Gift, is going to drown my brain in 4.0% thc for the next month, meaning I'll be as dumb as a fly for a while.
Weed always was a big thing in Canada. Most of the market captured the street dealers and houses that sold weed. NZ is far opposite in this regard. Their referendum failed by a few percent (must have bused in more old people from Australia), and let the private dealers sell at higher prices and even worse is the greasy rope a lot of the weed goes through before it reaches the main customer. And with a high rate of gang violence and general alcohol related shenanigans, there's also a large chance of getting robbed or ripped off by dodgy dealers.
I forgot to mention there's probably no more urban weed growers buying up houses and making them into grow houses, but I could be wrong. I'm sure its mostly meth houses now.
Here, the blackmarket began capturing online sales and establishing themselves before legalization. Those older fellows who are less tech savvy and lived most of their lives growing and smoking tons of weed, failed to sell a lot of their weed due to distribution channels losing interest in a drug that's suddenly lost its profit and could still attract legal issues and with such large distances to transport this weed, it was easier to sell hard drugs and make twice as much money for a less smelly issue.
If all of the kids are smoking, well I think more are vaping since its easier to purchase a vape than it is to get weed at a government store or private seller, checking everyone's ID if they look underage. But that doesn't stop them of course. Family or older friends will often provide them weed or they'll buy some off some classmate at school who has a personal source that are related to older friends or family. I think gone are the days of hustling weed. When I went out on the streets one night in Canada back in 2018, I couldn't find weed, only fentanyl, meth or crack.
But in terms of everyone smoking it, no there are still a lot of people who remain sober, and I enjoy this, because we don't need drugs or alcohol to have a proper life.
t.caffeine addict