What got YOU interested in drugs?

in 5th grade i moved to a better part of town (lol). grade 6, first grade of middle school, i met a cool kid named chris. and through him i met his would be brother that had been his friend his whole life. me and alex played alot of diablo 2 and got into punk music beginning around 8th grade. in 9th grade he asked me if i wanted to smoke pot and i was very curious so i said ok. we didnt have much but i still got high and loved it. starting out, we'd smoke about once a month. our friend jarrod would smoke with us too and before i knew it i was smoking every week with a slightly larger crowd. after i while i was smoking on school nights (bad, made me sleep in and not do HW). before i knew it i was trying new drugs and smoking ALOT of pot. nowadays, 4 years 3 months after my 1st toke, i cant smoke weed anymore. i drink alot but never go over 6 beers, and usually i only have 1-2. picked up cigarette smoking. and a lifelong battle with meth. still trying to get my education.

let it get out of hand and youll be regretting it.

 

I haven't really started yet. I sometimes smoke marijuana, but don't really like it. I intend to try: LSD, peyote and mushrooms. Why? Well because, I am hugely interested in human psychology. I honestly think these things will help with understanding.

 

was very scared of drugs, very scared of christian god.
nevr succumbed to pressure from friends to drink, but one day they rang me uyp inviting me to a campout in my dfriends bush in year 8, and i said yes knowing id be getting pissed.
LOVED it, much like what bill described, its so damn exciting at first, "so THIS is what its like!!"
started drinking way too much, it went from half a bottle of vodka once a week to 33 shots of bourbon friday, beers in the day and a bottle sat night, beers the next day. i dunno how we managed to get so chron while so young, but alco's fucked when youre a kid.
i thought bud was a dirty dirty kind of thing to do, smoked a bit of a joint at a party already smashed, and once i felt (or thought i felt) the bud i had an amazing night, i actually dont know if ive felt that much drunken euphoria before.

smoked for the first proper time with two friends, it was either super chron or just wasnt prepared, but damn, did not like it. i felt sooo indica'd, stupid and unable to move, plus it was spun with tobacco which made me feel gross.
the next few times i tried it i hated it aswell, then one day smoked it without being spun, and loved it.
stopped drinking, stopped being extremely arrogant.
smoked lots and lots, was stoned every day at school for about 6 months but managed to keep up with work fine.
ate first e about a year or two ago, tripped my fucking balls off, had the most intense/obvious visuals ive had ever, on anyhting. thats when i got really interested in psychedelics after that night, ate pills about 10 more times nearly all of them were amazing experiences, uisually quite spaced apart. had cid few weeks ago.

 

oh should point out i mostly only smoke on weekends, never in school, only drin about 10 times a year, dont have mdma very often, and am not bothered if i stay sober for long periods of time, eg month or two

 

all of your stories are really interesting and insightfull.

the discovery of weed and its begginings is the best thing iv ever experienced. every time i smoked i would discover and learn somthing new, thats what i loved it for. i say loved, cause it doesnt do that at all anymore, i stopped smoking weed. it doesnt teach me anything i havent learnt now. it just causes problems. drinking is ok, i love absinth. do a few ritalin when i get them, and valiums somtimes. and the maybe 1-2 month stoning. but i think small amounts that dont swallow your thoughts and motivation are good, it suits me now. i suggest you all try it.

 

I've only recently become interested in drugs, mainly hanging around with some of my friends who smoke weed alot. I've tried it and its alright. I'm really interesting in trying LSD and a friend of mine is going to try and hook us up with some in the coming weeks because he wants to try aswell.

My story isnt that interesting tbh, lol

 

My parents being vanners before I was around, then finding out they smoked pot (still don't know how much), and wanting to be like my pa, I guess. But it was when I was 17, so not real young like some of you all. Found one of his bowls, packed already with who knows how old stuff, and hit it. Feel bad now that I know not to cop, but I kinda had an idea anyway. Talked to a friend, bought an 1/8th, and taught myself to roll. Hit about every other day a week for about 6 months, then ran almost out of pot and stopped. Okay, actually stopped because I had random testing. But now I'm in college, have some time to research things. So now I want to try just about everything, mostly just to have a wider knowledge base of it. No meth though, thanks. But almost everything else I'm game for. I never drank until about a month before college, but now I keep at least a bottle of liquor on tap in my dorm. Right now it's some 190 Gem Clear and a fifth of Bacardi Superior. Kinda bored with alcohol though. Which is why I've got the ounce of Salvia.

 

mine was nitros oxide [laughing gas] at the dentist when i was around 9 or 10.
i told my dad about it and how good it felt and how much i loved it.
and he bent down and told me a secret:
he said, "i know, right? i love that feeling".
but my dad is just a stoner.
gave it up for lent, though, lol.
i could never give up pot =]

 

Expanding conciousness beyond the legal limitations our "fair" governments impose upon us. There are exploratory pathways not yet discovered and yet we live in a time where a superpower has an active "war on drugs" and a war on its citizens who decide to stray from the christian, moral, conservative pathway. Interest, at my young age of 15, was sparked by pamphlets the high school circulated regarding the "dangers" of LSD, PCP and others including hash and good ole mary-jane...cosider a quote by Dr Alex Shulgin:

I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable"

With power comes great responsibility (love you spiderman), and, the power in this case is free will. Everyone should pledge an oath to be a responsible user before even thinking about trying a "drug"..t'evs though..I'm preaching to the choir so-to-speak

 

well good for you.

 

DARE in... very early elementary school. As soon as i got a computer, 4th or 5th grade, i researched every drug i could find endlessly and became obsessed with all the stupid little text files about homemade or over the counter drugs, thanks to totse.com (don't ask... i was young and fascinated by the vast amounts of filth and debauchery i found there)... that's also when i drank the first couple of times, stealing whiskey from my father, and who suspects an 11 year old little girl who never says a word? lol... then middle school there was weed and prescription drugs of all sorts, last three years have been dxm (blame it on boredom), still more weed, drinking, and coke for a while there. i'm looking forward to trying shrooms, salvia, and absinthe sometime soon. especially the absinthe. but what really sparked my interest was the way the dare officer spoke about the drugs... i don't know what exactly it was, but i was SO excited. every time the dare officer came my heart would start beating so fast because i was so excited to learn. growing up so sheltered... i never knew anything about drugs or sex, so when i figured it out... welll.... that's how i got where i am....

 

shrooms, definately.
salvia, sure if you have the extra money.
absinthe, a must!

salvia costs me $25/per gram at highway 4:20, which is one of my local psychedelic shacks/head shops and it's not reakky worth the money. it's more of a mental high and it doesn't last very long. like with pot, it's an entire body high, your mind and your body and all your limbs, right? well, that's pot and salvia is just a mental high and when you're used to pot, like me, it turns out to be quite a bummer. yeah, sure, try it for the sake of trying it, but i really don't think you'll be back for more after that gram is gone. and a gram's not a lot. you could get a quarter of schwag for one gram of salvia. weigh the options, man. i know schwag sucks as far as weed goes, but if you smoke enough of it, it'll do it's job and you'll get high. the lowest on the weed paradigm that i will steep down to, is mid-grade. sometimes that is all i can get. i've got a half ounce of purple and a white russian blunt right now. but yeah, shrooms and acid, you should definately find. to me, shrooms are easier to find and obtain, but acid is safer, bc some people wil sell you mushrooms that are not the psylocibin and you could get seriously poisoned, but if you want you could go shrooming yourself and get a whole bunch of them, get some books on how to identify the psylocibin ones, or find a reliable internet source and friend/someone who is knowledgable on them. a lot of people on hipforums are. i still have to get people to look at mine before i eat them/sell them.

 

just make sure it's humid outside.
and that it rained the night before.
and that you go shrooming real early in the morning, like 3 am.
and don't wear sandals (i learned that the hard way!).
and bring lots of baggies/trashbags for the mushrooms!

 

DARE got me interested, although I didn't do anything except drink until after I was 18. Now I smoke pot, and and I am soon going to try mushrooms.

 

thank you very much! how sweet you are to care i have a friend who knows his shrooms quite well, and he can help me with that, and the salvia is something that my boyfriend reeeaaally wants to do, so i was basically like "ok, i'll throw in five dollars and take a couple hits", hehe. we were def. thinking of going shrooming sometime, cause i live in an area surrounded by cowfields on two sides, with regular non cow fields on the other sides.. yay. peace and love to you!

 

yay, finally a cop that's good for something.

 

Probably DARE in elementary school. Drug Abuse Resistance Education, haha. My mother used to drink a lot when I was little and that got me interested in alcohol. But then my grandmother used to take Percocet when I was younger and it made me really curious.

 

I guess I was just interested in what it felt like, I was 15 and in 9th grade and for about a year most of my other friends were smoking weed, I use to hear there stories and hear them talk about what it felt like to get high, etc, I finally got the balls and tried it, I loved smoking weed and got into it very heavy. I wanted to try tripping so bad after about a year of smoking weed. I first tried Acid at 16 and feel in love with it. I loved to trip. and went way over board doing it, I then started using other Hallucinogens like Shrooms,Mescaline and Dust.I got into the rave seen and tried X and Special K and keep on tripping. my life was getting crazy. At the age of 18 it was my senior year. Alot of my friends got into cocaine, I said I would never do it and was mad at myfriends for doing it, I just could not belive they were doing that shit, But one night when I was drunk I gave in and I tried coke, and from that first line on I just loved the feeling that coke gave me it was unlike any other drug I had tried bfore that. I felt like a million bucks and felt like it made me a better person. boy was I fucking wrong, I got so hooked on coke, It was crazy. at 19 I was a full out coke head, I was laso still tripping on LSd alot also and smoking weed very very heavy, Every weekend it was eather sniffing lines or dropping lsd.I still don't know how to this day how I graduateed from high school ? I was so fucked up on drugs my senior year its miracle I got threw it ?Thank GOD I did.Anyways it got worse after high school after a few years of doing coke real heavy at the age of 21 one night we were doing coke this girl who we were blowing linies with was a herion addict told me that sniffing a bump of herion would stop the coke come down and crash from coke. I hated the come down from coke I mean I hated it and would do any thing to stop from crashing. So I tried the bump of herion. and that was it, If I was a bad addict on coke I was 1,000 worse oh herion, I mean the feeling from herion is like no other and I wanted to feel like that every day, So to make a long story short I was totaly strung out on herion and coke. My early and middle 20's were hell. But I got off bolth and am now 29 and finally got my shit together a few years ago. I still do drugs every now and then but I grew up and got my shit under control.Drugs is such a love hate relationship. I am not anti drugs, But make sure you know when to stop don't let the drug control you. Stick with smoking weed and maybe tripping every now and then don't fuck around with the hard shit please it will only fuck up your life !!!!

 

well im still young but i rember in the beging of the 7th grade i was ready to try pot but couldnt get any. so i looked up some household high threads and found out about nutmeg, had some and tried it. its been history ever since.

 

Just wanting to try it and experiment