Cannabis Use Age

[PhishCactus]

At what age did you guys (and girls) begin to use cannabis medically or recreationally, feel free to share any first time stories. Personally my first time was when I was thirteen, I spent a long time researching cannabis and its effects, and then without much thinking, rolled a joint of stolen weed from my older brother from the paper from the back of a dictionary. At the time he was selling and had a big jar full of mids, so he didn't notice, i waited until my parents were in bed and smoked the whole joint outside. This was actually my second time smoking, the first time I lit a nug of weed on the ground and tried sucking it up with a straw, with no luck whatsoever...except possible enhanced appetite. Later than night was when i smoked the joint, sorry for the order of the story, I came in and didn't notice anything, thinking that weed was some sort of jip and didn't work, I got up from the kitchen counter and walked to the couch across the room, my vision started repeating over and over and I never actually reached the couch, I had a small panic attack, and thought that I would never do this again if only I could survive the next 2 or 3 hours. I called my brother and told him the story, he was a little mad as he didn't want me to me smoking at that age, and then his comical friend came on the phone and made fun of me for freaking out. I remember him telling me I was only having a bad trip because I felt guilty about taking my brothers weed, which was not the case at all. Anyway that was my first time. Hope that was enjoyable.

What about you guys?

 

[lwien]

26 years old when in the Air Force stationed in Peshawar, Pakistan in 1970. Afghani hash.

 

[PhishCactus]

sounds tasty...I wish to get some good concentrates this summer!

 

[Elluzion]

19 years old over summer. It was a vape

 

[Stu]

16 years old in the parking lot before an Iron Maiden concert circa 1983. I had 2nd row seats and the band scared the fuck outta me .

 

[PhishCactus]

man, I guess I was pretty young, although I certainly wasn't the kind of kid who was peer pressured into it, i fully knew the effects, pros, cons, and how the chemicals acted on me

 

[CombustionJunction]

14. I was in summer school retaking Geometry because I didn't do well enough the first time. It was the day of my final exam and the teacher gave us a 15 minute break before the test to go out and get some fresh air. I was walking around and stumbled upon some kids from my class smoking behind a portable with a makeshift smoking device. It was basically one of those tiny plastic liquor bottles with the bottom cut out and some aluminum foil with holes in its place. Also, a piece of tubing coming out the other side to use as a mouthpiece. Pretty cool little thing. Anyway... I took a few puffs and I was ripped. Went back inside and passed my final exam with flying colors. It was then I knew I had fallen in love with MJ. That was 12 years ago and I still love her as much as I did then.

 

[Bluntcrush]

15 years old. My buddy's hot older sister got me ripped on a ceramic dragon bong. Tasted crappy, but the day turned out well !!

 

[aesthyrian]

26 years old when in the Air Force stationed in Peshawar, Pakistan in 1970. Afghani hash.

Can't really beat that IMO.

For me I was 17 and just about to graduate high school. Didn't start to do it regularly until maybe a year later.

 

[the_germinator]

16, working my first job. A guy i worked with had hit his bowl in the bathroom.I knew the smell and what it was. I asked to get in on the action. The first 2 sessions I dont think I inhaled enough, or it hadnt built up in my system yet. 3rd time I was wasted. If I remember correctly, the guy paid $80 an eighth and that was in like 1992....it was sticky dank and he kept it in a 35 mm film container...those were the days...

 

[Mckdenton]

1st time I was a freshman in highschool after a wrestling tournament with a buddy. Throughout highschool I snuck outback and smoked a joint a few times. started daily when the stresses of college set in and need some relaxation.

 

[mlo4sho]

Tried it when I was 14 or 15 once or twice... meh. Didn't get high or didn't enjoy it. Fast forward couple years later. I'm 16 in a new school with no friends or contacts. Met a couple peers I just moved in next to. One of them blazed. Threw down with them one day and got high. Hit his pipe with several friends and his dad. Comfortable, relaxing, felt floaty at one point and not sure if any time was passing by. Very, very, VERY high. At certain points I felt like I was tripping. Had to remember that I was actually with people and not just inside my own mind. Needless to say, I loved it, and even though it was the highest I've ever been, I enjoyed it. Wasn't scared like now I might get if I 'consume' too much. The high lasted very intensely for 6-8 hours. Hell, I woke up the next morning still feeling the effects. That was 7 years ago, I believe, and since that day I have not looked back. I love(d) everything about the herb even during those times where I was really unnecessarily high. Now I feel it's more of a medicine than a need to 'get high' like when I was still in high school.

 

[aesthyrian]

The high lasted very intensely for 6-8 hours. Hell, I woke up the next morning still feeling the effects.

That's totally how it was for the first 10 or so times I got high. Since I had no tolerance I would get so baked it would last until I went to sleep, but then somehow I would wake up and still feel completely stoned.

Good times

 

[OO]

it was either 12 or 13, with a neighbor.
where i grew up, access couldn't be any easier.

it was nothing special, i've had much exposure over the years. (22 now)

 

[wilf789]

11 years old with my older brother. 2 years before I had my first cigarette as well.
He had the belief that I would inevitably do it some day and he would rather I was in his safe hands for my first few experiences than with anyone else. It was the same with other substances when I got older, and I can gratefully say with some confidence that I am far more responsible in my own usage than many others my own age, in great part thanks to my brother's guidance.

 

[the_germinator]

That's totally how it was for the first 10 or so times I got high. Since I had no tolerance I would get so baked it would last until I went to sleep, but then somehow I would wake up and still feel completely stoned. highest I've ever been, I enjoyed it. Wasn't scared like now I might get if I 'consume' too much.......... The high lasted very intensely for 6-8 hours. Hell, I woke up the next morning still feeling the effects. That was 7 years ago, I believe, and since that day I have not looked back

Thats funny- same here. I always wondered if I was the only one... I got baked at work one night. The next morning it kicked in, and I was sitting in my chair/desk, next thing, I almost fell out of it..

 

[djonkoman]

it all began when I was 14(altough I didn't smoke till I was 15), when a friend found 40 weedplants with another friend of him somewhere in some little bushes(the plants were surrounded by bright blue bags...)
he reported them to the police, but kept 1 behind, only he and that other guy couldn't take it home
so when he told me about it I said I could take it since I didn't think my parents would have much problems with it(I was right)
then I started researching weed, and the next year I ordered seeds to start a grow
when those plants were still small it was my 15th birthday, and the day after I went to a concert(outdoor), were I smoked weed for the first time(and after that took my first hit from a cig but didn't like it as I suspected)
I coughed my lungs out since my first hit of the joint was pretty big, and later I got some advice on inhaling from my uncle(who was there with us)
I didn't get high that time tough, that took me 5 times or so(first time high was also my first selfrolled joint, my first pure joint, with tobacco is normal here, and it was from my own harvest
only noticed I was high on my way home tough, before I thought I was just a little giggly and in a good mood

 

[FLskwat]

26 years old when in the Air Force stationed in Peshawar, Pakistan in 1970. Afghani hash.

Hh, always have some of that home (Afghani or Nepalese Temple Balls)! Such a high effect (vs. stone) for a hash: that always impressed me!
I began at 13 in Spain (my mother country). Of course with the beautiful marocco hash (almost liquid when applied very little heat) you can get there/France when you know the "real stuff".
After 5 tokes, I knew I would consume this daily (I was diagnosed hyper active at the age of 4!) for the rest of my life... here we are today!

 

[420Tom]

Let's see, I was 13 at the time. There was a creek behind our junior high school and there was a couple of caves overlooking the creek. Easy enough to climb down to before I smoked...but it seemed like we were scaling the grand canyon after we smoked. It must've taken an hour to climb the 30 feet.

That was over 40 years ago. The weed was crap back then and there (1969 in the midwest), but it was cheap. A lid (equivialnt to an ounce today--measured with 4 fingers in baggie) went for $15, but it would take a couple of joints to feel any affect. I remember the price going up during high school from $15 to $20 a bag. I was outraged. (The real price were the laws back then. In my state, possesion of even a tiny amount was a felony and I had some friends who's lives were destroyed by those draconian laws.)

So 40 years of combusting later, I am now 3 months into vaping and not looking back. I combusted with a friend a couple of weeks ago and it tasted so nasty.



tom

 

[crawdad]

i grew up thinking pot made you stupid, lazy and mooch off your friends...not to mention it clearly was bad for your health. typical misconceptions that are blamed partially on ignorance as well as indoctrination of the misinformed. the only friend i knew growing up who toked happened to fit that description pretty well so i did not question it.

fast forward to 2 years ago i took my first hit from a volcano, followed by another, and i think one more. when i returned to earth i came back with a clear understanding of what this herb can do and every day i live i feel more alive.

i did quite a bit of research (about a years worth) before taking a hit, i became curious about it after spending some time with a good friend who tokes daily and has for 40+ years, i basically found it hard to apply my previous thinking to his life and decided it was worth investigating. glad i did. i'll be 36 this year.

after secretly partaking of the herb for about a year i got fed up with it and decided to tell the wife, was willing to give it up if i had to (at least those were my words) and to cut to the chase, we stoners 4 life.

 

[GreenLeaf]

I had just turned 15. I'd rolled a J of some mids and I lit it with matches but I didn't know how to inhale properly. A week later I was ditching school during the last few classes, and I went to a friend's house and took some hits off of a roach she and her friends were smoking outside and I got a little bit high but just did my science homework. The week after that I went back to see my friend and we smoked out of a clay bowl her BF at the time had made for her in her basement and she taught me the proper way to inhale since I was not doing it correctly.

 

[djonkoman]

lol, I also started when I just turned 15
the day after my 15th birthday actually
I went to a concert with some friends and my uncle, and one of these friends took a joint
it wasn't like it was a surprise tough, I already had a few weedplants at that time and I had already researched weed, and already knew more about weed as some stoners do
one of my friends stood between me and my uncle, I said to him that was probably not necessary, I was right
after I took a hit that was way too big(I never smoked anything so I just sucked on it as hard as I could) I coughed my lungs out, and when the joint was finished(wich was pretty fast after my hit) my uncle aproached me and gave me advice on inhaling
later one of those friends went home to get his pipe and some more weed(this concert was close to my house and even closer to theirs, except one friend but I think he slept at my house, don't know for sure tough)
then we went to a bench just outside the festivalterrain(it was outdoor, open air concert, to be recise it was the preparty for a metalfestival the next day, but tickets for the festival itself were very expensive wile the preparty was affordable and at the preparty there played a band that we listened to a lot at the time)
there we smoked some more, and there on that bench I also tried a puff of a cig for the first time, didn't really like it, after that the only hits of cigs I've ever had was when a friend fucked with me and said it was a joint while I was too stoned to notice
then we suddenly heard a familiar sound... the sound of that band we listened to a lot and wich we really wanted to see, turned out one of the bands couldn't perform and they changed the shedule, making this band(wich was last) perform earlier then originally planned, and I and one other friend jumped on our bikes and rushed back to the stage, while the others followed us

this was only my first time smoking tough, not my first time high, my first time high was about 5 times smoking and a few weeks(or maybe months) later