Deachman: 'This is like Christmas for every pot smoker in Canada'

“The terrible thing about marijuana is that it rarely affects people alike. Under its sinister influence, some are exalted to a high pitch and made capable of mental and physical feats impossible before. Others go wild over music and want continually to sing and dance. Some grow quiet and poetic.”
That was the Ottawa Journal’s take on weed in 1938, when the cultivation of cannabis was outlawed. If my recollection of my own marginally heady late-1970s days under weed’