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Night Of The Living JUNKIES (a night out with friends) by Ajayi Dotun

I’m letting you guys into a little secret. Its not a secret that 71% of vibrant Nigerian youths deal in controlled substances (Drugs) and its also not a secret that Jakande Estate Oke – Afa boys are junkies hmm hmm!! Let’s leave that like that. Well I’m a jakande estate boy and I happen to have junkies as friends.

So there was thiş particular night. It was a Sunday night actually. Nothing happened in the day because it was such a boring Sunday afternoon. On that very night. My crew including myself got together and we decided to get ‘high’. Sam actually was the one with the reefer. We both decided to get a location. The rest of the crew went to get one or two things. On getting to our location. We hopped into a free and well parked tricycle (KEKE NAPEP). Sam rolled up and we got a spark from the neighboring Abokis.
We got into the tricycle again but thiş time, it was with the rest of the crew. We’ve got PIRO,PILON,YANKEE BOY,MAYANZY,SAM,IK and myself on that very day. Well its not all of us though but that's the majority.

We rolled up. Lighted up and started passing round. The instruction was dat everyone should take the drags each and pass on to the next person. We did as instructed. We also took gulps of CWAY milk mixed with Tutolin. I guess I don’t have to explain what that is. We started catching our trips almost immediately.

So the word ‘JUNKY’ came out and we talked about being junkies. Then someone asked for the meaning of Junky. Each and every one of us gave our opinions on what it means. Someone said it is being ADDICTED. Someone also said it is being unable to control yoΰя want for something. Still the same with addiction. I also gave my opinion and I said it is an OBSESSION then I left them there.
Apparently! Me being the inquisitive type, I took to google and typed the word JUNKY or JUNKIES. The search result gave me the meaning it says thus “a person that cannot control his/her want for controlled substances". I went on looking at other leads then I stumbled on where the word JUNKY originated from.

JUNKY is actually a 1953 Novel written by William S. Borroughs. The Novel is a Semi autobiography. The author talked about how he used to Бe a Junkie. He sold drugs like cocaine, Morphine, Heroine, Nicotine and cannabis (reefer). He also talked about how these drugs can affect ones life.

My dear Peeps! Pls don’t Бe a junkie. It might really Бe dangerous to our health. Let’s endeavor to get high with caution. Lool! Just saying!


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