Since she started smoking at the age of 10, Melita Gordon says she won’t stop smoking ‘ganja’ until she is dead!
According
to the Jamaican grandma, stopping would kill her. This statement was
backed by her doctor who speculates that her relationship with cannabis
may be partly responsible for her longevity.
Melita Gordon,
the daughter of Richard Gordon and Michelle Jones says since she was
baptized into the practice by her parents her commitment to pot has
never ceased.
As reported by Green Rush Daily, Gordon said
speaking in patois, “When mi goes a doctor he say him ah tell mi fi to
stop smoke marijuana, because if mi stop, him a go lose mi,”
Although
she has been smoking every day all day long for 85 years, not everyone
is happy with her habit. Especially her daughter, who despite begging
her mother to stop or at least reduce it to a roll per day, has made no
inroads between her mother and marijuana.
Marijuana considered
a narcotic in Nigeria and some parts of the world, properties seems to
have made its presence in half-truths and unfounded truths.
But
leaked scientific research conducted in the late 1990s appears to
endorse Melita Gordon's ‘theory’ to a long and happy life. According to
this unpublished results, the study revealed that THC (a chemical
compound found in the cannabis plant) increased the life expectancy of
the test subjects.
At the end of the experiment, “those that
were given THC had a clear survival advantage over the untreated rats”,
as reported by the study.
