Never had a desire. Even if I did, I couldn't (always had one of those unforgiving jobs).

Now... I really don't care to know what's it's like anyway.

Well... Maybe when I retire for good... then... you know.

14. After the first time, did I continue using it? You mean, immediately? or in my lifetime?

uh. yes.

there was about a 10 year period in my life (teens/twenties) when I smoked about 10 joints a day. Every day.

amazing I got anything accomplished at all, and still have brain cells left, really.

I still far prefer it to alcohol.

Radar, I've never lied to my kids about drugs. They know what I've done and when. We've had what seemed to me to be a pretty open and honest discourse in the household. I think sometimes kids are going to do what they're going to do no matter what you say to them as a parent. About that SM monologue; while I get the whole idea behind going to someone who's been there for advice, there's also the argument that you don't have to stab yourself with scissors to know it's going to bleed.

SG, I think you're right about it being good to happen now - in a way. He's still quite malleable and is/seems to be listening to what's being said to him now. We can only work through this together and do our best not to make him feel allienated from the family if that makes any sense. We all make mistakes. This is his first big one. Hopefully he'll learn something from it.

Shhhh...they'll revoke your musician's union card, dood.

Smoked my first joint at school around 1971/2 then spent most of the 70's and 80's zonked outa my face,was sitting here thinking just how many drugs I've dabbled with and I'm surprised I have any brain cells left to play with.
Lived through Edinburgh's Trainspotting days and lost 3 cousins in the family to heroin o/d's/aids although I had a dabble with smack i've never shared needles with anyone and i had the test just to make sure.
Drugs can be fun but like anything moderation is the key but hey who am i to preach.
I'm a good boy now don't even use tobacco and barely drink these days..
the worst experience i ever had on a drug was when i worked in a bar and there were some US saliors in to see the strippers an i did some Angel dust with one of the guys 36 hours or so later I crashed back to normality way too heavy..

I was about 15. I'd already started smoking and drinking a year or two earlier. My first drug was pot, but I was also given mescaline, heroin, and amphetamines. I didn't use regularly, but I did start selling various types of speed in school in return for a "commission" in the form of some for me. I did cocaine for the first time at approximately 17yrs old. I continued to use occasionally until I was in my mid-20's. Drinking and smoking cigarettes continued much, MUCH longer.

Amazingly enough, this was in spite of (or as a result of?) being very protected growing up. I was raised in a fundamental Christian home, went to private church schools, had no television or secular reading material and was extremely isolated until I was a teenager.

I finally quit drug usage when I noticed I was losing some mental capacity - memory, comprehension, analytical abilities. Three times since my 20's, I've done some type of drug on a single occasion, but the risk is simply not worth it, to me. My children, my life, my freedom, my mind, are much more important.

Make that 1 year, geez. I really would have no brain cells left.

agreed.

14, I think. (I'm surprised the brain cell retaining that bit of data is still alive...)

first smoked dope?
 

I inhaled.......

13 well probably 12,have pretty much smoked it everyday since. Made it through high school and college stoned prety much the whole way. Ive never been into drugs very much and seldom if ever drink,have never really considered pot to be a drug,it grows in the ground like carrots,doesnt come from a lab or distillery.Ive been self employed for a little more than 20 years so Ive never encountered drug tests.Raised 2 wonderful twin boys who are now 16 and havent even tried it,always kept them in sports and focused on academic pursuits. They have known I smoke it for at least 2 years I found out secondhand and they dont seem to have a problem with it.Over the last 4 or 5 years I've found I smoke it less and less to the point where I take 1 puff and Im good, sometimes go for days without even thinking of it. Recently Ive been forced to move to a different state and Im going to try and get a 'real' job that may actually utilize some of my very expensive education that Ive never used in the last 20 years so I quit cold turkey 5 weeks ago tonight. Since I smoked so little Im sure I will pass a drug screen but I do miss it and Im certain I will indulge again once Im settled in somewhere. If you met me you would never have a clue most all of my friends smoke it and many of them have really good ,high profile, important sounding jobs but if you met them you would never guess.

...just as long as meeting you didn't involve reading anything you wrote because it's painfully fucking obvious here....

:apimp::lol2:

I've never messed with Heroin or crack. They scare me. Crack because one hit and you're hooked. Heroin because I just think I'd like it way too much and also get hooked.

Urban myth.