I started drinking at 18, just at parties and such. I used to be the most adamant anti-cannabis person there could be. I'd yell at my friends (even disown them) and was a total dick.

When I turned 19, I became a bit more open minded becasue I was in college. My views shifted from "WTF, CANNABIS BAD!" to "It's ok if you smoke, but I don't want to be involved." One of my close friends got a job at my work and recently began a relationship with what is now his ex-GF. She got him to try cannabis and later he asked me several times to smoke, all of which I turned down. By that time the curiosity I had was full blown, I was fascinated. I got drunk at a party, and a good friend I hadn't seen in a long time said I should try cannabis. I was drunk, I was already curious, so I was like, "Sure, why the hell not!" (And they say cannabis is a gateway drug?!)

I smoked, the first time killed my drunkeness (but it could have all been in my head). The second and third times I tried it, nothing happened. Suddenly, on my fourth time, I lit up a blunt with a couple friends on a cliff overlooking a valley and that did it =) I was so blazed, it was great. That's my story =P