Page 11 - Daggabay Magazine Issue 5
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Daggabay was started in 2017
Before then we all had “normal” jobs, we
were the people that cooked your food at the
fancy restaurants, the account managers, the
cashiers taking your money at the shops you It was really difficult for the actual
bought your groceries. The person who message about cannabis to get through
delivered your gas that cooked your food and because of minor differences between
heated your homes, and the friendly service people. Example some guy would post a
person who helped you choose a cell phone very informative and helpful bit of
package, to the technician that fixed your information about cannabis on his social
phone, the point is we were all people with account, but perhaps that message did
average jobs, but we all had one thing in not reach as far as it could because
common, we love Dagga. someone else did not like something else
he had on his profile. People were afraid
The one problem was there was no standard to stand up for weed because it meant
with dagga, this friend would have great you were breaking the law, and as we
weed, and the next would have crap. Most of know bad news or fake bad news about
the time the people that did not like weed weed spreads fast, even before social
were the ones that only had the cheap ditch media the rumours and stigma from the
weed or madjad like we called it. No wonder American war on dagga still made it a bit
some people did not like weed, the little of a taboo to admit using cannabis.
experience they probably had with it was old
weed, passed all the way from some corner in We knew this had to change; a
Africa, and as we now know weed converts normalisation of cannabis use. We
THC into CBN if it gets old and yes CBN staying in South Africa, from my point of
makes us sleepy, I remember most of the view at least the one thing that united us
good comments about weed from before it even if it was behind the scene back then
was legal was always yes it helps me sleep. was cannabis, sure there were your
Sorry friend, you probably just had old weed. haters, but luckily weed also gave me the
patience and understanding to know
That oom that liked beer a little too much that the people that did not like weed,
who one morning on a babbelas while still probably just misunderstood it, or had
half drunk had the drunken courage to some bad explainable experience, like
experiment with weed who went about it all mixing alcohol with weed for the first
wrong as everyone should know by now not time.
to mix the two and had a horrible experience
he went through his life thinking weed is bad There were a few people that dedicated
and how can anyone possibly like feeling that themselves to setting right the negative
horrible way he felt when he had what we miss information or propaganda about
now classify as cannabis psychosis or the weed. But if we ever wanted to unite as a
greenies. country with different cultures, and
backgrounds, we needed to keep politics,
There was no standard to the equipment religion and all other little personal
used to grow weed, no standard in the differences aside and focus on weed.
apparatuses that people used to consume the This was how @DSouthAfrica was born.
weed. Some people had great looking unique A following of 9000+ people at one
cannabis themed clothing and others were stage, all united behind cannabis.
looking like that it came out of a plastic
machine in China. By Andre Swart
