Page 34 - Daggabay Magazine Issue 10

I am 38 years old, I come from
Phalaborwa. I’ve been smoking weed for
28 years. I have been in the Kalahari
most of my life, hence the Namaqualand
accent . I am an orphan, I don’t know my
parents at all. They are non existing, só
yeah they would have been proud to see
me winning this competition. I hope they
see it in the Tabloids haha.
One day I decided to run away from the
children’s home, and I went to sleep
inside this tunnel, where the drain is.
And there was a group of guys busy
smoking a bottle head and then I started
smoking with them. My lungs grew
strong from a young age. The children's
home caught up with me and I needed to
go back to the children’s home.
I then started living with my big brother
and cuntunited smoking bongs, which
my brother didn’t like.
Time just went by and in 2014/2015 I
was in a scooter accident and a Jeep
was laying on top of me. The right side
of my body is broken, my right leg was
hurt, my clavicle was hurt. My
cellphone was on the inside of my
stomach because of the impact, I
developed stomach problems because
of that.
My head also had a hard knock and
now I can't remember things as much
as I used to, mostly it’s my long time
memory that has been affected. Now I
just smoke extra bongs for it. I have
gained stomach ulcers so I can’t drink
any over the counter meds because it
will put me in the hospital. I smoke
cannabis mainly for pain and to be
able to move during the day.