I’ve started smoking cigarettes (“normal”) ones) at age 14. I was abroad, beginning high school. And that school was literally a drug paradise. Some class mates used to sell or distribute them inside biscuit boxes. In total impunity since the local police was extremely permissive about those things.
If only I could stand the smell and taste of weed, I know I had a great potential to become a big addict. I tried a few times but then stopped when one night I stayed “stuck” in an elevator… I was so high that I wasn’t able to push the elevator’s door and exit lol. So stayed in there :))
Semi-funny related facts: the first time I got caught with a cigarette at school (with consequent administrative punishments, etc.), I was just holding someone else’s cigarette while they were busy washing their hands in the WC. Big time with my parents, of course… And shortly after, I was rolling some tobacco at home. Just tobacco. My father caught me and went to yell at my mother “you see… after the cigarettes, now your daughter has become a junkie. I saw her playing with suspicious plants in her room!”
Not to mention another time when an ex and I got ejected from a café: we were smoking herbal cigarettes bought from a pharmacy but the bartender thought we were doing weed…
:)))
Other than that, my last weed adventure was 5 years ago with a group of friends. Again that fried herb smell and taste :s , some inability to articulate my thoughts and words intelligently afterwards… Definitely not my cup of tea.
All in all, I’m not the kind to totally condemn weed and similar material but I guess I get the same effect through some kinds of music and that’s enough for me. And most importantly, I’m joining what has been said so far about the advantages of being sober → not missing the opportunity to stay alert/awake on things that can be worth it eventually.