What led up to your first recreational drug experience?

I’ll tell you what’s going to lead me to my first recreational drug experience
Some electric wizard and Salvia

Back porch. I was 16. Brothers friend handed me a joint. ( I said I smoke)
Rather uneventful. But lasting a lifetime.

Not counting alcohol, I smoked marijuana with a friend as a preteen. Back then it was a mood lifting drug for me but that may have had more to do with the hunt and sneaking leftovers from her older brother. Like many things, the thrill of the deed was longer lasting than the effect.

Smoking cigarettes…I worked at a gas station and cigarettes were free for me. So I tried them….the rest is history.

My girlfriend’s parents had moved back to WV (But she was staying in CA to finish up school). The house was in the process of being sold, so all of the furniture was gone. One afternoon after volleyball practice, we back to her place (which was right down the street) and laid out on the grass in the backyard for a while. I asked if I could get high. She went into her secret storage and got out some weed and her pipe.
(I think at the time, I had just turned 17. For an age reference)

I was 4, my aunt had people over after she put her son and me to bed, and when everyone went outside, I got out of bed, snooped around in the living room, saw a red drink in a highball glass and drank it all down in one gulp. I got really, really wasted, because it was half a glass of it.

“It” being TJ Swan. So, so ghetto, I know.

I’ve never done drugs. Most of my friends did but it wasn’t for me.

I was a 70’s girl, plenty of drug use, but fortunetely nothing that ever had longstanding appeal of effect.

I was probably 14–15, got high for the first time.

Pretty much did it all back then, except heroin.

Weed, cocaine, acid, mushrooms, mescaline, peyote, hashish, thai stick, opium, all sorts of pills, uppers, downers, Quaaludes. It’s a wonder! lol

I still use marijauna on occasion, maybe 3–4 times a year. Make brownies for creative purposes like gardening and decorating my house. haha

Hmmm, the first… well, I wouldn’t really count the time I smoked a ciggerette, which was around 10 (Tried it, didnt like it) Started smoking again at 15, friends, family everyone smoked, kinda just fell into it I guess… Recreational, was a little Hootie Weed ( my dads word for it) when I was 12, some friends were skipping school smoking pot and I joined in. Since I have tried many things, but the smoke is the only thing that ever really stuck, and probably always will. Would prefer to be High than Drunk anyday since….Met many a mean drunks, but smoker ( or should I say Tokers) tend to be very well grounded and easy going folk IMO.

When i was younger, I looked up to my older brother. He smoked cigarets and had a lot of “cool” friends that would come over.

One night his girlfriend at the time, woke me up out of bed and asked if I wanted to come have some drinks with them outside. I was 13 at the time, and jumped on the opportunity like flies on shit! First time I ever drank vodka and smoked a cigaret. At the time, I felt really “cool.”

A friend I met in Los Angeles who was already a dedicated pot head introduced me. The actual first time? It must have been really good, because I have no idea what happened. :-)

Nothing, fortunately. Recreational drug use has never appealed to me.

My niece and I were pretty close in our early teen years and one time I asked for a toke (“heis” actually) off her joint. Took me a couple of tries to get it right but I boarded the skyship called Weed that day and stood stricken by it’s awesomeness for two whole days.

Didn’t bother finding a dealer but since I turned eighteen I’ve gone through four bongs already. Weed is legal here, Netherlands…

My first job was at Chick Fil A. At the time, I worked with my boyfriend and my 6 or 7 best friends at the time. It was a blast, none of us had ever smoked weed though. So one night we were closing and another coworker suggested we go buy some and smoke in the freezer. So we did. And it was wild. I was a manager and in charge of counting the money, honestly things went pretty poorly that night, but it was hilarious. I still laugh thinking about it. We were so high. One of us was mopping at one point, and someone else walked by and stepped on the mop, and the sound it made sent me into hysterical laughter for 10 minutes. I was on the floor.

I first smoked weed when my SO and I went to his aunt’s house after new year’s eve. There was a group of us, and one of his aunt brought out a bowl, bong, bamboo pipe, etc., and everyone lit up. It was offered to me, and I tried to smoke it. I didn’t get high because I didn’t know how to inhale. It was fun though =)

This past summer I was feeling particularly introspective and wanting to diversify my creative process. Not having access to what I really wanted, (—that being psilocybin and actually, it was not wanting to put housemates/myself at legal risk)—I turned to Salvia, which is not a terrible second choice. It’s still legal here (knock on wood) and did not disappoint. I procured it and the necessary tools, but didn’t take it immediately. Instead I waited for a cool evening on a day over which my experiences and emotional states were level and mostly tranquil. I waited for the right day, you know? Then I sat down with a spotter (my husband) and went about things slowly and methodically. When the chemical took hold, I laid back quietly and let things happen, no expectations. Despite having never smoked anything previously, the process felt completely natural and I didn’t run into any snags, which was very surreal.

I’ve not done it again since then, having had neither the time or impetus to do so properly.

I first smoked pot at 20 on a dare from my then-boyfriend at a party. He dared me to “loosen the fuck up, Jesus Christ! It’s not going to kill you!” Out of ~30 people, I was the lone holdout; my mind was churning from being previously told that I would be a “horrible-selfish-loser-just-like-everyone-else” idiot if I succumbed. But because 30 people were staring at me, I took a hit, felt really bad, like I’d let myself down.

And then I got high.

And realized there was nothing wrong with that.

Then he proceeded to smoke up and promptly got paranoid. ::sigh::

A yummy batch of brownies!

@aprilsimnel I had the exact same experience with Alcohol this past spring. (I guess that actually makes my first experience with rec.drug-use last April.) Never had a drink until my 21st birthday, felt as though I would lose if I drank, and that it was pointless/not worth my time/disgusting. And then I was drunk. Instant paradigm shift.

When I was ten, I had a stomach ache, and my mom gave me a beer to sip on to settle it. She left the room for five minutes. When she came back, she was both amused and impressed to find that beer was gone.

We still have it, labelled with a bit of scotch tape with the date and the reason for it’s importance.

My boyfriend at the time pressured me into smoking pot. It took him over an hour to convince me. I eventually did it just to shut him up. We then went to see Who’s That Girl. It was actually funny.

Still never done drugs, but if I ever did, I would read the entirety of Alice in Wonderland while high/trippin’ (assuming I could see straight).

My first ciggarette was at 14 years of age. I was hanging out with a friend who had just tried smoking and she asked me to give it a try. It was a weekend and I had just had an arguement with my mom so it was my way of retaliating.
Fast forward till now and I see it was the first step at screwing myself over.
Wish I hadn’t been so stupid as to start in the first place.

Depression.

I can’t remember…

The need to look cool in front of other kids.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir

Did it work?

@iamthemob Definitely – we were 12.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir – I hate to say it, but yeah – that probably worked really well. Sigh…

@iamthemob Don’t worry, later I smoked and dealt for pleasure.