Have you had to stay with people who are battling addiction or are under the power of addiction?
If your answer is yes, then you would have a glimpse of what am writing about but if you haven’t been close to these addicted folks, then you won’t understand what some persons have to deal with.
I happen to join a friend on mine who has a passion to reach out to addicted folks, mostly men who are addicted to smoking. The interesting thing here is not that they smoke, it’s what they smoke.
I don’t know how the regular cigarettes smoking works for those who smoke it but I know that the effect is not the same with what we are dealing with lately.
As a child, I watched my father smoked all my growing up. It was like a ritual. Every evening when he comes back from business, he would go to our balcony and smoke cigarettes. I don’t know how many sticks he smokes per day but I do know that when we can’t find him in the living room, then was at the balcony smoking.
I wasn’t comfortable with that routine but I know that as a teen, I’ve read that smokers are liable to die young. One of those evenings, I summoned some boldness to preach to my dad. I’d say preach cos I know I came on a religious note telling him that I don’t like the fact that he smokes and that he’s not setting a good example to us as his children.
I think I also buttressed the health hazard of his actions. Long story short, that was the last time I saw dad smoked. I don’t know the magic that happened but I was pleased with that new way of living. He’s been late for twenty years now, God bless his departed soul.
Back to my story on what they smoke. I don’t know the generic names for these things but from my interactions with them, they have what they call kolos, that one seemed to have a most detrimental effect. I’ve literally seen these guys in a sane state and when they take the drags, they get zoned out.
Some start sleeping right away, some drooling and there are some that sleep even standing up. Some stagger around not knowing where they are and some start crying. Amidst all of these drama my soul simply cries. While their mates laugh at the ones acting dramas. How pathetic. They are all addicted but at different levels. Some are able to chest the effect more deeply than others.
There’s the regular cannabis we all know but they don’t really seem to sell that a lot cos it’s like the effect is not as strong after all and they want to go for something more dramatic.
Then there’s Loud. This is the senior brother of Kolos I guess. Just like the name, they say it makes you loud and visible.
There’s one they call Ice. This one is very dangerous and most times enters the brain and makes the person to start behaving in an insane way. Most people avoid ice except for the very strong headed ones and most of them end in the rehab center.
There’s one called AZ. They said it’s not as detrimental to psychology as kolos. It’s milder. You can smoke this and still be able to walk properly and carry out your normal life activities.
One of the guys once told me that he was very sick to the point of death and that he has stopped smoking. That smoking almost killed him. Two months after, I saw him smoking again and he said mama “it’s AZ am smoking not Kolos”. This one does not do anything. But they are all smoke.
Last month one of the guys bought over thirty warps of kolos to smoke in one day and he died smoking. Nobody knew what happened. The story was everywhere yet they continued why? They are addicted.
Some of them know they need help but they are under are under the influence of something they can’t control they say. While some love it and don’t want to ever stop. They say it gives them peace and makes them calm. Thats they were led into it by life’s frustrations.
Every weekend we go to reach out to these folks and sometimes give them food and talk to them. Most of them live under the bridge and on the rail tracks. They are homeless and struggling to survive. You need to see the number of men they are just staying under this bridge everyday doing nothing but smoking. And that’s just one bridge amongst many countless others. It’s a pathetic sight.
The danger of these addiction is that they can’t seem to do anything for themselves because they little money they make, they use it to smoke more and eat. The things they smoke makes their stomach open to eat more cos it’s makes them very hungry. Hence they only live to hustle, smoke and eat. It’s a sorry state.
Hope fully in the future, I intend to start an NGO that would take these ones off the street and put them in a rehab house where they can hopefully start a new life.
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You know... I used to smoke. One day I'm singing, attempting to hit a note I remembered being able to do (I'm a singer), it sounded like a crow getting stepped on. I said.. done with this garbage. Never again. Its been 20 years now.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That’s one great way to quit
Am sure your vocals are proud of you
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