What got YOU interested in drugs?

Sorry this is so long, and some of it trails offtopic, a lot of the reason I wrote this was for myself, because I enjoyed looking back on the past and how I've changed so much over the past two years.

If you care to take the time to read it, here's my story:

Well I was pretty sheltered and never really had any knowledge or interest in drugs. There was this kid i lived next door to since I was two, till I was 12, then he moved. He's five years older than me and we were kinda like brothers, I'd see him occasionally, he'd come swim in my pool, or he'd watch me. Then when I was 15 and he was 20 I went over to his house to visit him. I had never drinken before, but he made a drink and wanted me to try it. Since I looked up to him I didn't really think about it and drank some. I got a little bit of a buzz but I didn't really think much about it, I didn't drink too much.

I'd see him about every couple months or so and I drank with him two more times but since I didn't like the taste, I never really got more than a buzz. Then I turned 16 and drove over there one day. The night turned into a big party at his place. I forced down 2 drinks that were probably 30% vodka each.

The rest of that night I was fucking wastedddd, hit me like a ton of bricks, I didn't really know what I was doing and probably made a fool of myself to a lot of the people. But it was the best time of my life up to that point.

This was a big turning point of my life, at the time I basically was unpopular, didn't know any girls, and was pretty sheltered from drinking and drugs for my age. After that night he was hesitant to let me come over because he didn't want to be such a bad influence on me and be getting me drunk considering I'm 5 yrs younger.

After this I stuck with my usual group of friends. At this time pot was getting pretty popular at my school as well as with some of the people I knew. One day me n two of my friends decided we'd get some and give it a try. We got about a gram n a half for 20$ but it was total sh*t weed. But anyways, we made a bong out of a propel bottle which was pretty cool haha, and we smoked. It was a lot of fun but I don't really think I got that high looking back on it.

I smoked a few more times out of that, everytime I smoked though I would be unlucky and would almost get busted (I guess I'm lucky I didn't get busted though). The weird thing is I never really got high like I have been recently, I probably smoked 20 times before this, but the last 5 times or so I've smoked my high has been sooo much stronger than I've ever felt.

Anyways, my friends started doing other drugs and i researched other drugs and got really interested in shrooms, never got around to trying it, but I still want to.

To finish, now I'm 17, me and My now 22 Yr old friend are pretty much best friends and party all the time, I've totally changed since I was 15, I have a lot more friends now, a lot more confidence, a lot less shy, have a lot more interests, and am really enjoying life and can't wait to experience some different drugs, I really want to try shrooms, maybe LSD. I tried X a week ago, only half a pill, it was really just a tease and I really want to do a full pill now.

Other drugs I've tried recently have been, diphenhydramine, dxm, all sorts of prescription(darvocets, somas, oxy, vic, adderall,tramadol), I smoke an occasional cigarette, im thinking about shaking this habit in fear of getting addicted though. I've never been addicted to anything though.

I can say that drugs have changed my life for the better.

 

Well to add more to my story, I guess I should make a lot more detail out of it.

I was on ritalin ever since I was in the 5th grade...perscription of course because I have ADD. Well I had never snorted it. I knew that this drug would change the way you act and think...but I never thought of it as something that could be abused. One day a DARE officer came into my class and he talked and showed some drugs and what not, but he said the words "changes the way you feel and think", that just kinda set it off right there....well not actually. It was out of my mind by the time I got home and went on to watching TV.

Well you should know that I, the same as a lot of people here, come from sheltered families. Well basically my mother and father used to be alcoholics and ciggarette smokers, and they wanted me to keep away from this shit. Well the funny thing was that my dad did not care if I watched any kind of material on TV that made a positive reference to drugs whatsoever. Hell, my mom even made me a pamphlet herself about "the dangers of drugs" etc etc. I didnt care because I thought that I had more to do in my life than to do drugs. Oh how wrong I was about my self.

Fast-foreward into the 8th grade, I was 13 at the time. Other than ritalin, no other drug had entered my system. One day, my friend tells me that he's gonna have a party. Well seeing as I missed out on getting drunk (for my first time) at his last party, so I decided to tell my parents that I was having a sleepover at his house and it was for a school project, so they approved. It nearly all went wrong when my mom wanted to come into my friends house after sending me there, but it was all good. That night, I ended up getting very very wasted (thanks to a couple older friends who promised me that I was gonna have a lot of fun). I think that's where my alcohol and cigarette habit started. Well after that I didnt drink or anything until his next party (which was 3 months later). Well you could see that I wasnt going to have a problem with alcohol, but I smoked a cigarette once a week, and over the years it escalated to 30 cigarettes (a pack and a half) per day, down to half a pack per day. I guess I liked cigarettes a little bit too much from that party haha.

When I turned 14, I still had not smoked any pot yet. One day, a friend of mine comes and shows me a bag of powder. I thought it was coke and was immeadietly repulsed by that, but my friend told me that it was Special K. I didnt know what that was, so I decided to give it a go. Well Since Special K lasts only about an hour to 2 hours, and that our bus ride was an hour and a half, we quickly got in the bus, and into the back of the bus, and we both blew 2 lines of K. That was probably the best bus ride back home ever. Good thing when I got home that my parents werent there. 2 weeks later, I was in the school toilet smoking a ciggarette with my friend and another friend, and he brought out some coke and made 4 lines on the back of a text book. Both of them blew their lines and they handed me the book and said "you take one". I took a line and they cut the remaining line into 3 little lines and we bumped them again. That was fun, but I didnt touch coke for years until I got into college and never did special K ever again.

The period from when I was 14 until I was 17, I did not touch any "illegal" drug at all. I wasnt really into them, and I didnt not want my parents to find out (I always thought to myself "what if one day I come into the house all yae'd up or trippin on K and my parents know it?"). Well that kept me away pretty good.

Well being 17, I still had not smoked pot yet. Funny isnt it? Actually I never smoked any drug. But the first drug that I smoked wasnt as peaceful or as loving as Mary Jane... One day my friend (the one who got me the K and Coke) said that I should stay over at his house and "smoke up". I was excited as I thought I was gonna get to smoke some pot!!! Well it wasnt pot. It was pure crystal meth (or as I like to call it, pure fuckin' crank). Oh sure, I've heard all the meth stories: The devil's drug, do it once and ur hooked for life, etc etc.. I didnt care because I heard the same thing about coke too and Im not addicted to it or even craved it after my first time. Meth wasnt gonna be like that right? I did not get the answer until a few years later. I tried it with my friend that night, and I liked it a lot. I dont know how much I smoked but it really got me cranked as hell. I liked it a lot, and smoked it another time 2 weeks later. and again about a month later. I didnt touch it again though. 3 times at that time was enough for me.

After my meth path, I decided that I wanted to smoke pot. I told my friend, and he was brought out a big bag of weed, grinded it with a knife and mixed it with tobacco, and we smoked it through a bamboo bong (keep in mind that I live in Thailand, and this is how we smoke pot here). I saw my friend smoke pot loads of times, but he never knew that I wanted to try it, but he did not know that I never smoked it. Compared to to the soft and odorless smoke of meth, pot was harsh and smell, but I absolutely loved what it felt. from that point on, I smoked pot on the weekends, and then went on with it to every evening after school. I continued to smoke pot throughout high school up till my graduation day. That summer after graduation and before college, I did E twice. I liked the first time a lot, but I didnt really like it the second time (some people tell me that it was a bad pill).

When it was time for college, I decided that I wanted to go to college in the USA (and plus I heard that weed was much better in the US). I went there and loved gettin stoned, and then I heard about psychedelic drugs and watched a lot of movies which focus on them (fear and loathing, harvard man, easy rider, etc etc). I had my frist closep with psychedelic drugs when a girl who was a friend of mine took some shrooms, and came into my room at 3 in the morning. She was talking to my roomate, and the feeling she described and the things she was tripping about, it really made me want to try it more. Once I had my first shroom trip, I started having a different insight to life. I tried LSD, DMT, Salvia, heroin, opium, and some over the counter perscription drugs such as oxys, perks, vikes, and aderall. I was on an aderall perscription at the time, and a lot of my friends would love to buy my pills just to bump them, and i'd sometimes bump them too. I had probably lost control of myself at this point, but good thing that I did not pick up any addictions.

Well this journey with drugs in the US came to an end when I was caught by the cops tripping on shrooms. Some kid ratted me out to the head RA of the dorm, who called the cops and hospital. Well since they couldnt find any evidence of drug use in my room, but since I told them that I was tripping (yeah I told them that, in my mind I actually thought thesese cops were actually some kind of saviors disguised as cops). It came to a messy end and I had to move back to Thailand because of it. Funny thing was that it happened at the start of summer.

After I came back to Thailand, I learned a lesson from this and decided that it was best to show my family that I was not doing drugs after that moment, so I stayed off drugs for 2 and a half months. I was also getting drug tested (I was also doing this for myself too). I wasnt exactly clean as I was still smoking cigarettes, but I wasnt even drinking. I finally smoked some pot again after the suspicions have worn down. That summer wasnt a nice one, but it helped me learn a lot about myself. I knew that I would be using drugs again in the future, and with my past experience in hand, I looked up erowid.com and researched a lot about drugs.

I finally got my life back together and got into a good university again. A fresh new start, and this time, I was going in more mentally prepared and with more control over myself. i smoke pot responsibily, but I got into meth again, and this time it was a lot. Well so much with the control I thought. I smoked crank everyday from August until October, when I finally stopped. The reason I stopped was because I was tired of all the multiple day binges that my friends were taking on a regular basis, and I stopped gradualy until one day I went cold turkey. I stopped for myself, and also to show them that they cant do anything I can do (one of them said that if it was easy for me to stop, then it would be easy as hell for them... they still havent been able to stop, even with 2 rehab sessions). I do sometimes still smoke meth, but I only smoke it very rarely.

Thats my story with drugs. Overall, I have a really wide perspective about life after experimenting with psychedelic drugs, and I've also learned a lot about myself from them. I also have much more control over my body now after being addicted to meth, that can think twice about touch a drug, rather than just jumping right in on it. I can say that drugs have taught me a lesson which helped me to be a much better and a much more understanding person than I was before.

 

I hope you guys take the time to read that. I put a lot of effort into writing that. Thanks + Peace n' Love

 

i was 5 years old and my best friends dad was a drug dealer......i thought it was candy lol turned out to be exstacy.....it was all down hill from there.....

 

oh at 15 went over to a buddies house for a fire/grillout and they had a blunt all rolled up. Never having tried it before I gave it a go and enjoyed it very much. Up till about a year ago I just smoked weed atleast several times a week, and cigarettes occasionally.

Then I gave in and wanted to have a "white" christmas when I was 17 and had a blast.

Now I just roll everyone once in awhile and still smoke weed/cigarettes quite often.

I guess nothing really got me interested in budds other then curiosity at how everyone always told me how bad it was, but all these smart, normal people were doing it with no harm and I just tried it.

cocaine and ecstasy on the other hand I just wanted to get to that next level you know?

 

for me, the next level after being all high on weed is tripping on shrooms or on acid...well maybe E (not all pills are the same).

 

I have a short reason for getting into smokin weed, Well, Mostly it was the Bealtes lol

 

my dad. he was a dead head. he would always tell me stories about him and buddies. not glorifying drugs but trying to persuade me not get involved but it just intrigued me more.

 

I broke my leg in 6th grade, and experienced morphine. Then my friend and I got a hold of weed at a young age, and that was love. Then curiosity took over.

 

In all honesty, DARE was the catalyst in my love afair with psychoactives. They all sounded like a blast!

Love the name xLeftovercrackx, my parrot dances to crack rock steady and atheist anthem

 

Boredom in High School. That and I'm a bit crazy, so it was a natural fit.

 

I remember the exact moment when I wanted to start drugs. It was when I realized that becoming a real astronaut would be impossible for someone of my mathmatical disability. I wanted to see the universe and put things into perspective and see things you cant normally see on earth.

 

I got into pot in college with some friends. It makes me feel good and gets rid of all my anxiety, helps me focus (at low dosages) and write music.

I would really like to get my hands on some acid, but have no source. =(

 

my story is very similar exept i started being interested in e because the teacher had some drug talk chik come into class and talk about drugs and the effects made me want to try it, like everytime i thought about it i got like happy butterflies in my stomach. i was talkin to my frend about it and the next day he brought a fukload of weed from his parents stash.
that was the start of a very fun part of my life that is still in motion

 

everyone was doin it

 

I was twelve years old. It was the golden age under Pres Clinton (at least by comparison). I never even hesitated to smoke weed after learning to smoke cigarettes (and I didn't require persuasion then either). I smoked weed for my third time, having not gotten high the first two times. It was out of a homemade bong my homie made comprised of a jar and two straws. I kept toking, prolly 25 hits, and nothing happened, but as we walked back to his house, it hit me like a giant swatting me with a giant wooden spoon.

I instantly understood what the appeal of drugs were, and I instantly felt that nothing in life is as good as drugs. At age 12, I decided they were the reason I was meant to exist. Since then nothing has been as rewarding to me as responsible, moderate drug use. THey amplify everything else in life, if they're used to enhance, never to escape.

I didn't touch a for 5 years, from age 18-23, and even went on an lds mission, but never regretted doing drugs. Mary jane called my name sure enough at 23, and it's done only good for me, especially growing it.

Only problem is most of my contemporaries got their drug interests satisfied during their early twenties, and by the time I wanted to do it, everyone was burned out on everything 'sept weed, so it's been hard to explore other drugs, but I've had E, shrooms, oxy, coke, morphine. soon to have L.

 

ive always drank since im german-irish but i started smoking when i was 12. My middle school had so many potheads that we had to take DARE again in 8th grade, people where smoking at school.

 

haha. exactly what iv been thinking. i can explore and discover more about the universe in my mind on drugs than nasa can discover in yearssss....ofcourse it makes sense

 

Music made me think about trying some stuff. First grass, then Psychedelics: LSA, LSD, and looking forward to try some more!
Sgt Pepper helped me unaderstand the acid culture

 

i got tired of being a math nerd

the day i heard a jimi hendrix cassette

it was all uphill from there

[1975? memory smoothed over delightfully]