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That the cannabis plant should have evolved to produce a chemical that fits the highly complex receptors in our brain to cause these effects.
在大麻的進化過程中產生了一種化學物質，它與我們大腦中某些高度復雜的受體非常契合，并產生了上述的效果。
Feels like a wild coincidence, but it's not as strange as you might think.
這聽起來是一種神奇的巧合，但事實并不如你想象的那么神奇。
There are hundreds of, thousands of plant species, and they create thousands of chemicals.
世界上有千百種的植物，它們產生了幾千種的化學物質。
And it would just be remarkable if there wasn't one that didn't interact with the human brain.
要是沒有一種會對大腦產生影響那才神奇。
And they do, there's the opium poppy and the tobacco plant, and both of those act on the brain.
事實上，罌粟和煙草都對大腦產生影響。
These plants can affect our body chemistry, because they're made of the same building blocks as we are.
這些植物能影響人體的化學物質，因為它們與我們有共同的構成元素。
Cannabis is no exception.
大麻也不例外。
Whether you like it or not, each and every one of us is fundamentally wired to respond to cannabis.
不管你喜不喜歡大麻，從根本上而言，每一個人都會對它有迷醉的反應。
So has it simply been the victim of prejudice?
難道它只是偏見的受害者？
How real is the dark side of cannabis?
大麻真的有邪惡的一面嗎？
It's like I married cannabis.
就像是我娶了大麻一樣。
I never had a relationship of me own except with cannabis.
我只愛戀大麻。
That was my relationship with cannabis.
這是屬于我和大麻的關系。
I mean, I did have chances in the past but I blew it, because I married that thing.
我曾經有機會結婚，但后來因為它吹了。
I feel powerless over this drug, I despise it.
我感到無力戒掉它，我鄙視這種感覺。
I gave up on life ten years ago.
10年前我放棄了生活。
I thought that's me doomed now, because I can't stop this insidious addiction.
我想注定這樣了，因為我不能擺脫這種隱隱的誘惑。
John, not his real name.
約翰，這不是他的真名。
Began his relationship with cannabis in his early 20s.
從他20歲開始就接觸大麻。
It was 1991, and I got in with the wrong crowd, going to rave clubs and things.
那是1991年，我結交了一群不良少年，一起去酒吧狂歡什么的。
Some of the lads would be smoking spliffs.
其中幾個人要吸大麻煙。
And I wanted to fit in. Well, I fit in the crowds just thought everybody else was doing it,
而我不想落伍，我就想大家都這么做，
even me mates round where I grew up, they were all doing it...
就連我那些發小都在吸...
And I thought, well, you know, just to join the club like, and...
所以我想，跟他們一塊吸吧...
But I got stuck with it, it started to rule my life and it was on my mind constantly.
但我陷進去了，它開始控制我的生活，我老是想著大麻。
And I knew there was going to be a problem there.
我知道這會出問題了。
Now, every day of John's life is structured around cannabis.
現在，約翰每天的生活都圍著大麻轉。
This morning I've been up since four o'clock and I've smoked about six, seven, eight spliffs, I don't know.
我今天早上4點就起來了，完后吸了六七還是八只大麻煙，我記不得了。
My usual day is sad, but true...
我每天的日子都很...悲哀，卻又很真實...
I'll get up in the morning whatever time it may be.
我早上起床，無所謂幾點了。
I'll brew up, have a cup of tea, have a cup of coffee, spliff in between...
我煮點茶，然后喝茶，喝咖啡，在這之間就吸大麻煙卷。
Then I might go out for a walk round the park, sometimes or feed the birds, and then I'll have some more spliffs, cup of tea.
之后我會到公園走走，有時喂喂鳥，然后再吸幾只，喝幾杯茶。
Then come the evening time, seven o'clock, I might have a couple of glasses of wine, spliff, spliff.
完后就是晚上了，七點我會喝幾杯葡萄酒，然后就是大麻 、大麻。
And then I'll roll a spliff which I'll smoke when I'm in bed.
睡覺的時候，我還會卷一根到床上吸。
And that's Groundhog Day.
這就是我典型的一天。
And that happens most days in the week.
一周大部分時間都是這樣子。
And today is no exception.
今天也不例外。
Right now, I...I have to be perfectly honest, I want youse to go for a bit while I skin up and make a spliff.
現在，我...不得不坦白地說，我希望你們能回避一下，我想卷根大麻煙來一口。
And then, perhaps come back in half an hour.
然后，可能一個半小時后再回來吧。
