Why did you start?

[ibreakthings]

Why did you start smoking bud and doin other drugs? What turned you on and made you think for yourself, instead of listening to the school and the propoganda?

For me, i actually got interested because of DARE (which is a school anti drug program). When they started saying things like "acid makes you see pictures in your head", i was like woah that sounds pretty cool.

and "does anyone know what a dilusion is? You may think you are a dog" - sounded pretty cool to me. I knew a guy who smoked alot and I went up to him and said "hey can i try weed with you?" and sure enough, ive been smoking ever since. Best choice i ever made.

I probably would have started without DARE, but since it was started in 6th grade it got me started earlier than I would have. Pretty ironic, huh.

What about you?

[bedake]

i started smoking weed cause when i was in 6th grade my older brother came to me and said "come outside man" then we toked up before that day i prolly never even thought about it, i smoked ciggarettes occasionally so i wasnt ever against drugs my whole life

i was actually getting high 2 years before i ever got drunk.
i dabled in pills cause i wanted to get fucked up
took shrooms cause i wanted to see things in a new way
took acid cause i wanted to see things in a new way
took ecstasy because its the love of my life

everything else ive done is just to see what its like, you know kinda branching out into new territories, exploring my options

I was never peer pressured or tried to look cool type person for when i started drugs
when my brother got me high I was like whatever.

after that initial pot smoking i started to look alot into em and found them to be very interesting, all my exploring of drugs has always been because i wanted to do em.

[Rarrr]

When my parents kicked me out of home 3 years ago my friend shotued me weed saying it would help :). That was the first time I got stoned but I had smoked before, it didnt do anything and had no intention of smoking again until after that (Even though it really fucked me up). Been open minded towards drugs ever since :)

[Ganj]

in the beginning...


...there was man. nah, lol.


i, from a young child had always had an interest in marijuana. from the point i found i out that my cousin smoked it, i had always dreamt of indulging in the drug myself. i remember never saying that i wouldn't smoke marijuana, because well, like i said, i'd always wanted to try it. my first encounter was in middleschool. a friend of mine sold me a blunt for five dollars. it never got into my hands, main reason being that my dad came outside when the transfer was going down. i panicked and told my friend that he could keep it.
i finally smoked a joint with another friend of mine in the eighth or ninth grade. i don't remember inhaling the smoke, but the first time i got high was with my bestfriend, in the latter years of my ninth grade year. i was dropping the blunt in the sand and we were laughing at it. ever since then i've been fond of the drug/herb. i've never lost my love for the majestic plant, but i have lost my "addiction", so to speak. in other words, i don't get the urge to smoke. i remember fiending for a smoke at other moments of sobriety, but as of recently i haven't felt that way.




other drugs, such as ecstacy followed later. i've been open to illicit (i don't consider marijuana illicit) drugs ever since, though i may not indulge in them anymore.

[LittLeWinG]

welllll....as a kid i was always against drugs, drinking and smoking. it was just the way i was brought up lol. i was always told how bad they were and how to never touch them and stuff. Really the first time i got drunk i realised how weird it feels to experience something different to my normal perception. Soooo yeah ofcourse i was attracted to the thought of trying mary jane. One day i bought $10 from a friend and tried it, it was incredible :) So yeah...... :D :dance: here i am now...a stoner... :D

[Kramerica]

I was never anti-drugs growing up, I was just afraid of trying them. You hear all the crap going around about drugs; about how they "make you stupid" or "you will overdose."
Thus, I never tried smoking weed until I was 24! After going through a bad breakup, I was feeling young and rebellious again. One of my good friends was in town for the weekend and asked me to ride to the store with him. On the road he lit one up and said "you can try it if you want." I was finally to the point where I felt "Why not see for yourself?"
I was so high I couldnt drive the rest of the night :)
Come to think of it, maybe thats why the girl I mentioned probably left. Her and her friends were occasional pot smokers and they probably thought I was a geek or a narc when I declined ;)

[StOneD.aS.FuK]

i started smoking pot cause i wanted to lose reality, and clear my mind... thats why i still smoke it.

havent tried any other drug, only cause i havent got my hands on it...yet

[Whos Carl]

I suppose smoking crack at 3 years old made me use marijuana.

[tripsalot]

the first drug i tried was alcohol when i was 13 i got shitfaced on alot of greek wine cuz i was visiting. was parents were hippies smoked alot of pot and sold it so it was always around but because of the kids do the opposite thing i never wanted to smoke 1 time me and my friends toked up a bowl but i didnt get high (i didnt know i was high)
and i never tried pot again till i was 18 when i graduated computer school i celabrated by getting a 20 and it was laced i got stoned and i havnt stopped smoking since. acid, mushrooms, and meth, extasy came after. i love drugs

[BabyFacedAbortion]

At 12-13, I started with soft-core pills and shit because I wanted a new mind set and wanted to live up to my 'badass' status in jr.high.

Late 13, I started drinking because I started hanging out with my almost step-sister and her and her friends drank often.

Half way to 14, I started pot because I didn't want to be me anymore.
(Now I'm in love with Mary Jane while still being able to love myself.)

Now, I want to do others because I want the experience and I love things that feel good (I mean, who doesn't?)..


I was never raised to believe that drugs are really "bad" exactly, more that because they're against the law I shouldn't do them and while they're not encouraged in my house they're tolerated.

[robert42]

The black kids at school made me :rolleyes:

[nakedgunner]

The black kids at school made me

lol

[CrAzYpOtHeAd]

I started because one day i was playing halo online, i met with a guy and added his email address. He gave me a link to a weed forum (it had an online arcade and i orijnally just wanted to play on that Lol) and i watched him smoke a bong and i was pretty intrested.

At first i did'nt know FUCK ALL about weed. All i thought was "iligal drugs are bad" kinda thing, lol. Anyway. I looked around the forum. Got some info. Thought to myself "damn, weed's not bad. It seems fucking sweet"

and i hav'nt turned back since :)

[kiki]

When they started saying things like "acid makes you see pictures in your head", i was like woah that sounds pretty cool.

lol, me too! since they told us that taking drugs was basically putting a bullet in your head, i was like "why would anyone try drugs in the first place??" and then i realized "oh, because they're fun." i started smoking just randomly, cause my friend offered me some and then i loved it of course. i started wanting to do other drugs once i discovered erowid and started reading all the experiences :)

[coolgirl]

I know it sounds dumb----but iv always been interested in drugs
It sounds dumb, but i am sort of in love with them.Not in love with taking them, but in love with finding out information about them.
And i absolutely adore cannabis----i love it! Even although they aren`t always good for my health, i love them :o

[Fabolous]

That Dare Program in my school, made me think of not doing, but in the long run, i could just see that DARE was actully Dareing me to smoke... since they where pressuring everyone in my class room back in the old elementry days

[Openmind559]

I started to drink and smoke MJ cause i'm suicidal and homicidal thoughts and fantasies of that too and i'm severe depressed of life.

[dog420]

The black kids at school made me :rolleyes:

lmao

erm for me, well my mum was a hippy, she had drugs everywhere, i mean just smeely green stuff, she and her buddies used to grow and make oil.

I stole from her, a joints worth, took me and a friend ages to roll this pathetic joint and smoked it, came home to find her waiting for me, she was pissed at 1st! Then said to me if you wantt o get high you better do it with me 1st so i can show you a way, safe and sound in our home.

As goes for the class a's, that was off my own back, wanted to see wtf it was all about!

Peace

[jokeyjokejoke]

To be homest i think i may of been a stoner in a past life because for as long as i can remember before i'd even smoked and before i even knew what a spliff/joint was i used to roll my bus tickest into a cone shape.

Anyway i didn want to try smoking for a few years but as none of my friends smoked or knew where to get some from the oppertunity never presented it's self to me.

Until i was 18 that was.

After a terribile year in which i lost both parents and was more intersted in trying cannabis for a number of reasons than i had ever been i was in clacton on sea (Essex) staying at my gf's house. We had an argument i was asked to leave by her parents and i found myself on the streets with no way of getting home until morning. I ended up banging on the door of a man who used to be married to my best mates mum. I explained what had happend he let me in then asked me the question.

"Are you ready to smoke"

The rest................ is highstory

[CocaCola]

I didn't want to smoke... got introduced to Alcohol during my first year of highschool... got introduced to smoking the following year... Then I started trying other things like Mushrooms and Ecstasy and Salvia... then I started experimenting, but my true love has been for Mushrooms and other psychedelics of the sort.

[LIP]

I started smoking weed cos i loved the smell, and i came to love the high too. That and most of my family smokes it.

[Pure]

I loved the smell and was intrigued by what it did to you. My mate had an older brother, that mate started smoking it with me. Now i smoke the most out of any of my friends, and started providing a while back.

[CheebaMan]

i was always curious as a youth reading about all the good effects and stuff, loved the smell, look of the plant, i felt that it wuz made for me

[BizzleLuvin]

honetsly, becuase my friends were doing it. DARE had me convinced that cocaine and maryjane were in the same category and that maryjane was addictive. WTF?

[TallulahGreen]

I was a little bit of a lame bloomer. I grew up around weed...had familie memers smoke it...their friends smoke it...friends siblings smoke it. It was everywhere. I knew the smell of weed before I knew what weed was. I had always thought it smelled really good.
For some odd reason though, with weed being all around me...I was scared of it. I remember sitting in my friends bedroom when I was 13 years old watching him get stoned...and being fascinated by his hands. I was so freaked out of marijuana that I practically held my breathe the whole time. He would take his parents weed and smoke it, and they didn't care as long as he kept above a C average(odd being in middle school and having friends parents not care...)

I had 2 best friends and we all told eachother that when we smoked pot we would smoke it together. We definitly knew we wanted to smoke it, we were just scared and wanted to be together.

Well..I remember one of my friends trying it...and we were so mad she tried it before us..then she turned into a major stoner..and we got over it.

Next thing I know I have a boyfriend who just happens to be like one of the biggest stoners in school. He thought it was super weird and crazy I had never smoked weed.

The first time I smoked I think I was 16 years old..and it was out of a bong. Looking back on it..I was definitly stoned. However I was convinced I wasn't stoned. I would smoke and smoke and smoke...and I never thought I was stoned. This lead to my so called high school boyfriend and his friends being kind of annoyed with always trying to get me stoned. In fact I stopped even trying to get stoned.

...until about a year later when I became friends with this CRAZY ass chick..and the first time we spent the night with eachother we did whippets of Nitrous and smoked a lot of weed out of a can.
That was probably the most stoned I have been. I remember I was so fucked up I couldn't even make sentences because I kept forgetting what I was saying.
...then it was all down hill from there and I have been a major stoner ever since.
The End.

[tahoe58]

I was 14....was at private school. my older brother took me along and we had beers and tokes with all of his stoner friends....I remember that night with great clarity and detail....now more thna 30 years later....still enjoying it and life is good!

[couch-potato]

Started in 5th grade. Back then I didn't know jack shit about drugs, my neighbor just wanted to corrupt me. I didn't tell anybody about it, people just kind of found out. I didn't dress like a stoner, I was more of a preppy / skater look, I guess it was just the way I talked and did shit. Then when high school began I got really popular for being the huge ass stoner kid with a 4.0 GPA and smoking the dankest shit in SoCal.


For other drugs, the only I "approve" of are Shrooms and sometimes Acid. People tend to look down on you less if you only do the "natural" drugs, but fuck them.

[think green]

I was seventeen and was a few months into my senior in high school. I was at a private school after having gone to a public school the previous year. One day when i was pulling in my driveway after school, one of my friends from the previous year at the public school was walking down the street in front of my house. We started hanging out and i eventually found out that he and some of my other old friends smoked.
Around that time i was in a "Fuck it" mood and was drinking and partying alot, just having fun, after having lead a relatively clean lifestyle. Then one night my friends parents were out of town and i went over to stay the night. Then some of his friends came over and asked if they could smoke there. After thinking about it a bit i was like "Shit, ill just go for it." and asked if i could get in on the circle.
Been open minded about it since.

[budsmoker only]

ill never forget the first time i got high.. me and one of my friends were looking for a cig in my brothers closet in 6th grade... instead of a cig we found a joint.. we decided fuck it lets smoke it.. we smoked it and i member after words i said "i feel funny".. and pretty much ever since then ive been smoking.. took a few breaks here and there but for the most part been smoking..

[Frivolous248]

I remember my friend showed me a little bit of dank he pinched from his bro and was like "if you sleep over we can smoke that tonight" so I was like "aight" I figured since he smoked, it must not be all that bad. He was a straight A student too. I smoked that night, and after trying it the next weekend and actually getting high, I was in love.