Det är något som resulterat i att svenskar vet väldigt lite om varför människor väljer att bruka cannabis då de omöjligen kan få ut något av det enligt almänn uppfattning. Teorin från Bejeroths tid lever kvar en aning vilket är att om någon brukar droger så är denne inkapabel till att fatta rationella beslut, eller ens är sig själva längre - de är mentalt kidnappade från drogen och de blir inte friska igen förrän rehabilitering uppnåtts.

Amerkanska Tidningen The Sacramento Bee har publicerat ett praktexempel på vad vi kommer att få se mer utav i svensk media under den nästkommande framtiden då narkotikapolitik engagerar och stimulerar allt mer i debatter i Sverige, i likhet med alla andra länder med drogproblem. Vi ser bland annat en kultur växa fram i Sverige kring cannabisbruk som nätverkar och engagerar sig politiskt, och som nu efter många år levda i skymundan börjar stiga ut i offentligheten.

I artikeln framgår även att från en ny undersökning så vill 51% av invånarna i Kalifornien legalisera cannabis, vilket tyder på att en legalisering är väldigt nära, då en folkomröstning sker i höst som handlar om att legalisera cannabis i likhet med alkohol för invånare över 21 år.

Så - varför brukar folk cannabis om det inte är en zombifierande drogepedemi?

Enligt några exempel från The Sacramento Bee följande:

• John Wade, 43, a San Francisco commercial lighting specialist, takes a quick hit from a marijuana cigarette on the golf course to steady himself before putting.

  John Wade, who does lighting and production for weddings and corporate events, uses his "one hitter" – a miniature pipe that looks like a cigarette – to sneak smokes at Giants baseball games, on ski lifts – and on the golf course. "You don't want to smoke too much because it can make the game worse," he said. "But I've taken a hit and gone off and had a couple of good holes. I seem to be able to focus on my putting better."

• Sarika Simmons, 35, of San Diego County, sometimes unwinds after the kids are asleep with tokes from a fruit-flavored cigar filled with pot.
   
• And retiree Robert Girvetz, 78, of San Juan Capistrano, recently started anew – replacing his occasional martini with marijuana. "It's a little different than I remember," he says. "A couple of hits – and wooooo. … "
   
• "I don't walk around in Bob Marley T-shirts or have a marijuana flag in my room," said Kyle Printz, 44, a Marin County software engineer. Printz occasionally smokes pot after writing computer code – "and dealing with zeros and ones all day long." He said, "It alters your state of mind a bit and does help you relax."
   
• Deborah Pottle, 56, a disabled former state corrections officer from Modesto, has a physician's recommendation for marijuana for her back injuries and a precancerous condition. She prefers cannabis in lozenges and brownies and melds pot flakes into spaghetti sauce and high-protein meals. "I find it better by a long shot than … trying to keep pills down," said Pottle, who sees marijuana only as a medical remedy – not recreation.
   
• Bealum says readily available weed – and the reduced stigma and penalties – make people less wary of consequences. "As the boomers get older, those guys realized it is really no big deal," he said. "And the younger kids don't think it's a big deal, because their parents used to do it."
   
• Ryan Issaco, a 21-year-old San Jose college senior bound for law school, says he gets marijuana from friends with medical cards or from acquaintances who bring weed from North Coast pot-growing regions to the Silicon Valley. He lights a water pipe and explores "different avenues on the issues" with companions. "I love to talk politics when I'm a little high," Issaco said.
   
• Steven Keegan, 40, a Los Angeles sporting goods designer, earns more than $100,000 marketing to Fortune 500 companies. He says he smokes pot before a typical weekend day spent with his girlfriend at L.A.'s Zuma Beach. At bedtime, he relaxes with "Woody Harrelson" – a popular cannabis strain named for the actor, an outspoken booster of marijuana use. "I can come home from work and if I'm up at
  night thinking about various projects, I'll just take a hit and … I can go to sleep," Keegan said.
   

• Simmons, of San Marcos, sometimes retreats to a patio to relieve stress once her three daughters are asleep and won't notice. "I don't even like the smell of it on my hands or body," she said. "I'm very discreet about it."

• So in Riverside County, Annette Drennan, 30, an amateur astrologer who is taking a class on meditation, enjoys smoking with her boyfriend – a pot patient – because "when I get stoned I can really feel the present."

• Sociologist Reinarman said, "The line that separates recreational use from medical use is blurred" by the infusion of medical pot into California's popular culture. "There is no contradiction from people who sometimes use it for pain or sometimes use it for sleep or sometimes use it because it is fun and or stimulates their creativity," he said.

• The new culture is luring back former pot smokers, too.

  Robert Girvetz tried marijuana more than 40 years ago, indulged for a few years and moved on with little nostalgia. But then, well into his 70s and "very much retired" from running a window-covering business, he was reintroduced by friends and relatives. A cousin gave Girvetz a vaporizer that let him use pot without lighting up. Preferring marijuana to cocktails, he savors it "once every couple of months, just for kicks." Girvetz did have one notable bad experience. "I ate a whole (pot) brownie when I shouldn't have," he said. "I almost had to crawl out of my chair to get into bed."

Zombifierande drogepedemi eller rekreationellt bruk jämförbart med vad alkohol är? Bejeroth var nog ute och cyklade med sin teori. Någon läsare som själv brukar, eller känner någon som brukar cannabis av någon speciell anledning och vill dela med sig av? Tyck till