The first time I got high was in 68, i think. Two brothers had moved into town and they bragged of having smoked dope. I told them I wasn't afraid to try it...and a few days later at a basketball game, a kid a year younger than me sat down on the bench. "I hear you wanna try some pot," he said.
I didn't really want to...but i surely couldn't back down then. It was this same kid that I would trip with a year or so later. He hung out with the older teens...and they tolerated him, but sometimes tried to run him off. I remember watching the hippies try to pry his hands off of a car seat when he refused to get out of the car as they were leaving for a party in the woods. But he was able to get hold of the better drugs. And once you're in....you're in. Back then you could buy a marlboro box stuffed with good turkish weed for five bucks. A nickel. And there was mescaline. this I found out by accident. my sister was into drugs...and one day after school, I was going through her purse. I found a little pink capsule. I thought it was a downer...and that I could get away with eating it before supper. I emptied out the contents and replaced the contents with crushed aspirin. Yes, I was now a theif too.
Ah....but the music! Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young came out with Deja Vu sometime in the early seventies? or was it 69? No....after Woodstock.
the summer camp outs...beer on the hill. red sunsets....

Anyhow...black opium treated hash, mesc, thc, lsd, cocaine, testers rubber cement(yup...we even sniffed glue), beer, cheap wine, uppers, downers, black beauties, crossroads, animal tranquilizers, etc., etc....oh...and mom had some kick-ass valiums too.

and there were the rip-offs who would sell a kid catnip for grass...or if you wanted an upper, would sell you a downer...

Would have made it through high-school if the booze hadn't kicked in late in my senior year...

"we grew up smashed...and we grew up alone..." - Tom Petty