What made you start smoking?

Just curious, was it peer pressure, curiousity, seeking an escape from a bad situation?

I started when I was younger at about 17 peer pressure and curiousity. plus a little rebellion. I had a bad experience and stopped for a long long time, ok been over 20 years :( cause that experience was so bad for me.

Now I'm in a new relationship with a wonderful man that I trust completely and he smokes so, I know I'll be venturing into it again. :) But my reasons this time are different than when I was younger. I want to just relax and have fun with him and enjoy smoking again.

I was just curious why you all started.

I started when I was seventeen at toward the end of my junior year in high school. My two frineds who I knew smoked invited me to come hand out and then just busted their sack out in front of me. A bunch of people I knew smoked and I guess I just wanted to see what all the hype was about. It took a few tries but after I got baked, I never looked back.

Thanks Chronic, yeah was friends for me too, and I enjoyed it, til I had either something mixed with the weed that day or whatever. Then I couldn't wait for that high to end.

First time I tried it I was seeking an escape really. Funny thing was that I had no idea how well it would do that. Ever since its really just been to relax and unwind after a long day and I love the way it broadens my prespective on things.

First time I smoked was when I was 17. All my friends did it and they kept asking me to try it. I had decided that I was going to do it, but the fact they kept asking every day made it fun to tell them no a lot. I ended up holding out for about 2 months just for the hell of it and than finally I was over at a friends house, no one asked, so I just asked if anyone had any, I wanted to try it. Than I proceeded to laugh the weed out of the makeshift bowl.

I first smoked when I was 26 when I started dating my current boyfriend, a big fan of the herb. He and I both get anxiety attacks but I have health insurance and he doesn't... gotta love American republicans, phooey... cannabis helps him a lot and I tried some and found it to be very relaxing and pick up where my more mainstream med (Celexa) leaves off.
The strains I grow are predominantly Indica and relaxing for this reason.

I Had a friend who had a stammer used to smoke to relax.
I had a few with him & since I was always hyper active found that it helped me aswell. It was my choice & still is my choice to smoke

I had a drag of a few joints with friends when i was 15, never felt anything.
Started to learn about drugs properly came accross pot again.
Bought some for a camping session, now been toking for a year or so.

curiosity was my main reason and cuz it was at this girls party and every1 was doing it and i was like ok pass tha joint lol

It was a warm autumn afternoon, I was about 11 or 12 at the time. A friend comes next to me and says,"Andrew, come look at this big bug". Instead of a bug, he pulls out a sack of weed. Later on after we are in teh car, he is like we are going to smoke this whether you like it or not. I finally gave in, and at about 9:30 that night, we were in the middle of a Boy Scout camp field lighting a joint. I didn't get high, but I thought I did. Ever since then I've LOVED it.

my first time was at 14.....the beginning of my freshman year me and my friend...who was older and never had either...were driving and we see my buddy running back to his house right before school and were like do you want a ride..and then hes like yeah...do you wanna smoke a jay and a bowl with me.....and thats how the smoke athon all got started lol only did it like 2wice that year...and then around middle of my sophmore year started blazing about everyday or close to it...and now blaze every hour...lol..just playing but at least i try to everyday ...i love it...glad i got introduced to it

first time i smoked i was chillin with friends and they all smoked, i was into other shit, drinking, pills, but just never got into smoking, my boy showed up at my house with a fat pound and told me no one was leaving untill i smoked an ounce of it down wit him, and thats how it all began.

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Originally Posted by Babr

Just curious, was it peer pressure, curiousity, seeking an escape from a bad situation?

I started when I was younger at about 17 peer pressure and curiousity. plus a little rebellion. I had a bad experience and stopped for a long long time, ok been over 20 years :( cause that experience was so bad for me.

Now I'm in a new relationship with a wonderful man that I trust completely and he smokes so, I know I'll be venturing into it again. :) But my reasons this time are different than when I was younger. I want to just relax and have fun with him and enjoy smoking again.

I was just curious why you all started.

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what made me start smoking cannabis?

it was being able to recognize a gift from the planet, to man, when i saw it.

dai*ma:stoned:

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Originally Posted by daima

what made me start smoking cannabis?

it was being able to recognize a gift from the planet, to man, when i saw it.

dai*ma:stoned:

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fuck!!! ladies, i am sorry.
a gift for you too!!!! please forgive my not thinking clearly and allowing myself to type ignorantly.

peace,
dai*ma:stoned:

I was 18 at uni - could smell it in a mates room so I bought some tunes and munchies.

The rest is history.

Been 12 years now

i smoked it once when i was 16 but i didnt get high....the first time i got high i was with 3 co works (a girl ive wanted to fuck so hardcore, her friend and my buddy from school) so we all knew we were gonna get hammered and fuck soo we just went crazy...then this girl was like ill be back and the girls both left, so me and my bud were getting wasted...and the girls came back laughing their asses off, i was confused and drunk...next thing you know i get handed a piece of foil in a pipe shape with the MJ in it...super shitty seeded schwagg...took a a few hits and got high as fuck(omg i have videos from that night on my comp i just remebered!) so i get asked if i wanted a shotgun...i had no idea what this was...but i did it

i was a total mess...drunk and high led to tacobell....which ended up in making out with that girl, then i started puking, then i felt her rubbing my back and handing me a glass of water, then i sobered up and grabbed her by the arm and pulled her upstairs...i will never forget how fast our clothes came off....

that was the night i first got HIGH.....+i got laid which was a definate plus

i hope everyone elses first ends up with some sort of satisfaction at the end :)

i still talk to this girl....and no i dont regret fuckin the daylights out of her

when i was 15 i smoked tea cause i guess i didnt want to smoke weed cause it was illegal nd i had a g.f who i promised i wudnt smoke , most of my friends had smoked at some time or another and i wanted to see what the hype was all about... just about 2 years later been smoking daily for over a year nd havent missed a day in almost 5 months :rasta:

funny thing is the first time i got high(2nd time smoking) i said as i was laughing my ass "dont let me do this alot cause i can see myself doing this everyday"

i couldnt even tell you.

one of my good friends said it was pretty damn swanky.. and at the time i was hanging out with kids who did so.. woo!

because of DARE.

honestly if no one ever made such a big fucking deal about drugs to me when i was in 5th grade i dont think i would of been that interested.

no peer pressure or anything, just sheer curiosity that you could feel a different perspective.

fuck i wanted to try LSD first, pot was just the first thing i could get my hands on.

My neighbor wanted to corrupt me so I could be cool like him. I was in 5th grade, lied to my parents about going out then I went with him with absolutely no fucking idea of what was going to happen next. He had some of his friends come over, then I took 3 hits of Trainwreck through a vaporizer. I have never, ever, been that high ever in my life. I would touch my arm, then start cracking up because it tickled me. One of the greatest feelings I've ever had.

I was sittin around with my friends who I knew smoked. They asked me to take a hit and I figured "why not, I should try it and make my own judgment and not let the world make my decisions for me." So I hit it..and realized I should always stay high.

I'd never really been a fan of reality so I got some pot and went into a field and smoked the whole bag then sat in my car and listened to Jane's Addiction before slowly driving home and then sitting in my room realizing that since I spend way to much time in here doing nothing as it is, I might as well spend to much time in here doing nothing stoned. smoked daily for a while, got out of hand. Now I pace myself a little. I've come to terms with the fact that life for me is always going to be a moderately unpleasant experience so I might as well make the best of it. Which has made life considerably better.

Incredibly interesting plant with so many uses. I dont use it to escape or because friends did it. I love the idea of drugs and their ability to summon feelings that you can add to any situation you like. they can even create new feelings that unlock understanding of ones philosophy and understanding of themselves. Drugs are good if you dont try to push past their potential.

Peer Pressure...i was about 14...and damn was i high...

i chose to. simple as that.
at a party. couple of stoners there. i was curious, so i asked if i could come along, they agreed. i didn't get high, but i knew i wanted to explore deeper into this plant, so i asked around and bibety-bobety-boop. here i am.
still haven't gotten high yet. that bullshit about people not inhaling properly is so wrong. not to mention it's pretty dry around here. but yeah. sorry, i'm rambling...

I started when I was 12, I always curious why people do drugs, I had always found seeds all over the house from my dad and I knew what it was, but anyways, some friends of a friend were walking through the trailer park, they asked me if I had a lighter and I asked them why and they gave me some bullshit answer (don't remember what they said) I noticed they had a can and I knew exactly what they wanted to do, I gave them a lighter (dad gets boxes of lighters for free) and I told them I knew what they were doing and they asked me and my friend if we wanted to try, I didn't know it but it turned out it was their first time trying too. My friend says he isn't going to try it, but I go with them back in the woods to try it, I didn't get high because I didn't properly inhale and it was arregano that this dumb ass found on top of his fridge. But my friend moves away after time, and I start to play football in the trailer park and get to know these people really well and then one day they bring home a small bag of weed that one of them bought from someone at school and we decide to go back into the woods again and try again, my friend now tells me how to properly inhale and how to use the can the correct way (lol I didn't know what a carb was), and after that I have been smoking with those same friends ever since (it's been a good year now and I've tried alot more drugs/pills oxys, rock, crack, k2s, hydrocodone) and I kind of regret it because now it feels like I'm around a bunch of 9 year olds at school and these girls want to try to put me down and shit for doing drugs and they tell me that their brothers will kick my ass and shit, just because I don't play their silly games and I just want to ignore everyone at school and everyone thinks I'm a loser but I really don't give a fuck. Just recently all of those friends lives have changed a bit, one is probably going to rehab, another one has moved (not out of town though), another can't smoke or drink until he can gain his mother's trust again, another one moved to Mount Vernon, IN. But I don't know where I would be if I didn't start smoking pot, I remember when I first started smoking I kept getting thoughts of suicide because I didn't believe my mother loved me and she left me to go live with the other side of her family, left me with my dad, and my dad was going through hard times having to work so much and ending up broke after paying all the bills. But thanks to an awesome band called Tool I don't have these suicidal thoughts anymore, I'm now 13 years old and plan on smoking for the rest of my life.

Uhh....Spiral....Don't you think your a little young?

When I got into 11th grade (I was 16 at the beginning) I started going out with this girl, she was pretty straightedge. I had never gotten drunk or smoked pot, but my friends did (in front of me before) but I had no wish to.

I accidentally got drunk one day that November (Just about 2 years ago, I drank on occasion) and I started drinking then on. Shit started getting bad with my gf at the time (I should've broken up with her long before I did) and I sort of rebelled against the straightedge... so knowing the actual effects of weed (and how it's better than alcohol) I just started.

And I can say, it was a good choice ^^

when i was about 16, i started getting curious about weed and researched about it. me and 2 friends started talking about trying it, so i bought a sack and called my friends to see if they wanted to try it, but they pussied out. so i said fuck it and decided to smoke by myself at my house. i made a homemade bong out of a water bottle, a bic pen, and a 40cal bullet shell and commenced to burning. i didnt think it was doing anything, so i kept smoking more. nothing. so i came inside and called my friend to tell him about it and while i was talking to him it hit me. i couldnt stop smiling and i realized that i was just wandering around my house aimlessly. so began my love affair with mary. both of my friends also tried it that next week.

I tried it at 15 because I wanted too. I definately wasn't peer pressured or trying to escape from anything.

I was full of the stupid anti-drug shit when I was younger, and then I found out a lot of my friends smoked. I couldn't get any hookups till college, though, my school was bone dry and I didn't have anyone who I trusted.

With my best friend my freshman year at college... first 3 times I'm sure I wasn't inhaling properly, but it was still great.

The first time I got high? 4th time at home, in the woods, by myself with a mini bong, and that was that.

I tried it at 18 out of curiosity, but my usage became increasingly regular as an escape, or to re-evaluate and come to terms with some problems in my personal life. If nothing else, it's a great way to unwind after a hard day.

No reason at all. My friend just showed me some weed he pinched from his brother and was like "If you sleep over tonight we can smoke that" so I was like "aight" and the rest is history.

13 years old. Had a friend who smokes, so i thought i would try it. We got two joints rolled up from a trusting older brother, smoked em and i faked high like hell...Oh well, my 4th time smoking was hte first time i actually got stoned, and now its a daily routine for me...Get done wtih classes, knock out my homework, take a drive to my spot, hit a bowl, and come chill in the dorm...best shit ever

First time i tried i was 15 at summer camp. My girlfriend at the time smoked and she invited me to smoke with her and a few of her friends so i sed hells yeah and that was the greatest walk back to the bunk ive ever had:rasta:

i didn't start for any reason whatsoever. thats why i hate the anti-pot ads that claim its all about peer pressure when you are younger. thats bullshit the people that succomb to peer pressure and become pot heads are the people that will fail at life no matter what because they can't think for themselves.

but anyway i was 14 and my brother was about to smoke a blunt oustide our house. he asked if i wanted to smoke and i was like sure why not without even thinking about it. i got mad blazed lol. i quote "weed song" from bone thugs : 'then i took a puff and i realized i should always stay high'

i tried cigs before weed and when i first tried cigs i discovered i was in love with the act of smoking, so i think that contributed

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Originally Posted by crf250smoker

first time i smoked i was chillin with friends and they all smoked, i was into other shit, drinking, pills, but just never got into smoking, my boy showed up at my house with a fat pound and told me no one was leaving untill i smoked an ounce of it down wit him, and thats how it all began.

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Damn, I wish I was forced to smoke an O.

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I started when I was 12 or 13 (can't remember anymore :stoned: ). For me it was curiosity, plain and simple. All of the anti-drug shit the schools were pushing just made it all the more interesting sounding. So I hunted around until I met some guy who's older brother smoked and hooked me up with a bag. It was all uphill from there. That was about 25 long years ago.

I'm 20 and I recently started smoking this past april. I have 2 brothers 31 and 30 and 1 older sister 27 who as far back as i can remember would smoke like crazy. when i was in my early teens my sister would always ask me, and would say if i ever wanted to try it i could, but i was always afraid to, not gonna lie. And I guess I was brainwashed about how bad it was for you. Even a few of my friends would toke here and there at parties and shit but I would always pass. (if only i knew what i was missing out on!) They would respect my decision not to.

Until finally this april when my good friend came back from his college with a bag of some hazey shit, and my 2 other friends were doing it, And I thought to myself...fuck it, my brothers and sister have been toking for so long they've never had any health problems because of it I'm gonna do it. I did it, and I don't think i got that high, cause i was a noob at inhaling the smoke. I would take a real big hit out of my friends bong, then i would like choke on it and it wouldnt get all the way to my lungs. The 3rd time I tried it was the charm, I really got high cause I finally learned how to inhale it, going from small hits then bigger and bigger. And I've been smoking everyday since about late June with a few days break here and there for tolerance reasons.