At what age...?

[wee_dancer]

did you first take an illegal substance, and what substance was it?

think I was around 14 and started out easy on marijuana. Didn't actually start doing it on a regular basis till I was 15/16 if I remember correctly

[Sini]

14 with good old weed, pretty much the same as you, smoked it regularly when i became 16.

[Cab]

drank for the first time at 17, pot at 18, whoooole bunch of shit at 19-20-21

[smokeitup]

started smoking weed when i was 13.. it started off just at weekends, but then when i was about 14 i started smoking it in school at breaks and lunch. then my parents found out i smoked it when i was 15 and have smoked it everyday (with the occassional break) since then. i started doing pills and speed when i was 14 too.. was loads of them about on the estate i grew up on.
I got abit of a rep at school for being a druggie too.. i remember on several occasions, other students coming up to me and asking if i could get them anything. A kid i knew come up to me in a science lesson once, put his hand out in front of me with a pill in his hand and asked me what 'brand' of E was it he had. was a mitsubishi turbo i think.

[GiantMidget]

First pill at 18, weed an all. I'm a good boy :wink:

[xFadingObsessionx]

Hmm... Weed when I was about 14 .. It was nothing major though, just like, smoked it a couple times whenever I was with a few friends. Then made new friends when I was about 16 and started taking other shit then..

[wee_dancer]

started smoking weed when i was 13.. it started off just at weekends, but then when i was about 14 i started smoking it in school at breaks and lunch. then my parents found out i smoked it when i was 15 and have smoked it everyday (with the occassional break) since then. i started doing pills and speed when i was 14 too.. was loads of them about on the estate i grew up on.
I got abit of a rep at school for being a druggie too.. i remember on several occasions, other students coming up to me and asking if i could get them anything. A kid i knew come up to me in a science lesson once, put his hand out in front of me with a pill in his hand and asked me what 'brand' of E was it he had. was a mitsubishi turbo i think.

i got that same kind of rep at my school although mine was just association with weed. was only there for the last 2 years of my school life and everyone was so straight edged and normal (in the very plain, monotonous(SP?), boring sense) and they all looked down on me for it.hopefully uni will chuck up some people with more inquisitive and open minds

[Dom_sufc]

I think about 13/14 with weed, started that and proceeded to waste myself away In school doing turbos at lunch time and being sent out all the time for finding the wrong things funny :laugh_at:

Seriously though. I think I would have gone down a wrong-un even If Id never took drugs. I fucked up for loads of reasons, weed and pills ect just happened to be there at some point too.

I took my first pill at either 14/15 and didn't look back. In retrospect, I took them too early, too many other things going on In my life. After about a year and a half of caining around 20-30 a week with a few breaks, I destroyed my brain and have been rebuilding myself ever since. HOWEVER, I would not be the person I am today. I believe with my personality, I would have over indulged someway, even if not doing drugs at some point In my life, I have no regrets and am happy of the person Ive become! Maybe this Is just my way to justify it to myself hehe... :laugh_at:

I have do have no regrets though, It leads to bad things, so I wouldn't change anything In my past... But If I could advise other people, It would be just to slow down... There Is plenty of time to get wrecked. And for god's sake, get wrecked for the right reason!

Its funny, drugs being one of the biggest influences of ALL our lives here, I wonder what I will do when I have kids. Heh, eventually...

It'll be Interesting to see my views then, and what I believe Is best for them.

I was lucky to have my mum as an old raver, who could give me advice, rather than restrain me from using drugs. She never condoned doing too many of course, but I got valuable advice, from what she has known and lived herself.

Im also Interested to know, what were your parents backgrounds? Were they strict with drugs, or not? And how did that affect when you first took drugs and how you were feeling about what you were doing?

[pixiegirl]

I was 14/15 when I started smoking weed at lunchtiumes in school. I'd been drinking before that though, which I guess technically was illegal too. Speed was next at 16/17, E a year later and mushrooms. Acid and all manner of other things 19+

Man, that all seems like a long time ago now.

[process]

weed at 17...

[e_babes]

Pot, 13 then Speed at 14

I was a bad boy!!

[smokeitup]

I think about 13/14 with weed, started that and proceeded to waste myself away In school doing turbos at lunch time and being sent out all the time for finding the wrong things funny :laugh_at:

Seriously though. I think I would have gone down a wrong-un even If Id never took drugs. I fucked up for loads of reasons, weed and pills ect just happened to be there at some point too.

I took my first pill at either 14/15 and didn't look back. In retrospect, I took them too early, too many other things going on In my life. After about a year and a half of caining around 20-30 a week with a few breaks, I destroyed my brain and have been rebuilding myself ever since. HOWEVER, I would not be the person I am today. I believe with my personality, I would have over indulged someway, even if not doing drugs at some point In my life, I have no regrets and am happy of the person Ive become! Maybe this Is just my way to justify it to myself hehe... :laugh_at:

I have do have no regrets though, It leads to bad things, so I wouldn't change anything In my past... But If I could advise other people, It would be just to slow down... There Is plenty of time to get wrecked. And for god's sake, get wrecked for the right reason!

Its funny, drugs being one of the biggest influences of ALL our lives here, I wonder what I will do when I have kids. Heh, eventually...

It'll be Interesting to see my views then, and what I believe Is best for them.

I was lucky to have my mum as an old raver, who could give me advice, rather than restrain me from using drugs. She never condoned doing too many of course, but I got valuable advice, from what she has known and lived herself.

Im also Interested to know, what were your parents backgrounds? Were they strict with drugs, or not? And how did that affect when you first took drugs and how you were feeling about what you were doing?


my mum was alot more clued up on the whole drug thing than my dad. she was the one who asked me if i smoked weed, and i admitted it.. we both kept it from my dad for about 2 months, untill i thought "why the fuck am i keeping this from him?!".. he didnt like the fact i smoked weed, but really, what could he do about it?
Then my parents split up when i was 16- which made me open up to my mum alot more.. i didnt actually tell her i did class A's, but i told her that all my friends did.. so that when she found out it wouldnt be so much of a shock to her. My older sister (from my mums first marriage) abused alot of solvents when she was younger, so i kinda didnt wanna tell her i was necking 5-10 pills every weekend. But then when i was 17 i had abit of a problem with speed and was involved in a court case with my best friend for selling whizz. who is now in prison. i got a suspended sentence on the condition i attended a rehab program. As all of this was going on i ended up telling my mum, who was alot more understanding than i thought she would be. She didnt like it ofcourse..
After getting off whizz i calmed down on everything except weed.. but then moved back to my hometown Brighton and met alot of old friends who are all on ket. I was 18 when i first did ket.. and ive had an intense love/hate relationship with it ever since. I managed to hide my addiction from my mum for the first 2 years... it was only recently (the last few months) that i told her about it. She said she had noticed a change in me, ie not caring about anything/ depression/ losing alot of weight after i had put it back on after the whizz. And shes been really supportive with the whole thing again.. letting me move back home from a squat and helping me find counseling. Shes even come to a session of acupuncture with me, just for support.

[Digital-A]

ganj at 12,

class A's from 15/16 ...

regretting it ever since haha

[Sini]

To answer your question about our parents Dom....

We've talked about this alot already in the past but i'll say it again :wink:

My mum used to be a full on hippie, hugging trees, taking acid, the whole shebang so she's always been very open minded with the choices i make.
We've always mantained an open relationship and i doubt there is anything my mother doesn't know about me or what i've done.

When i first did coke i did it with my mum which some people may find shocking, we did this so i wasn't doing it with random strangers and putting myself in a silly posistion.
I found coke shite and have never done it again.

She knows i'm safe when i'm out at parties and floating in the clouds, she trusts me and she'll talk to me about anything.
All i have to do is ask.
We've shared experiences about her past with drugs etc.

I don't see my Dad.

Does that answer your question hun :love:

[wee_dancer]

I think about 13/14 with weed, started that and proceeded to waste myself away In school doing turbos at lunch time and being sent out all the time for finding the wrong things funny :laugh_at:

Seriously though. I think I would have gone down a wrong-un even If Id never took drugs. I fucked up for loads of reasons, weed and pills ect just happened to be there at some point too.

I took my first pill at either 14/15 and didn't look back. In retrospect, I took them too early, too many other things going on In my life. After about a year and a half of caining around 20-30 a week with a few breaks, I destroyed my brain and have been rebuilding myself ever since. HOWEVER, I would not be the person I am today. I believe with my personality, I would have over indulged someway, even if not doing drugs at some point In my life, I have no regrets and am happy of the person Ive become! Maybe this Is just my way to justify it to myself hehe... :laugh_at:

I have do have no regrets though, It leads to bad things, so I wouldn't change anything In my past... But If I could advise other people, It would be just to slow down... There Is plenty of time to get wrecked. And for god's sake, get wrecked for the right reason!

Its funny, drugs being one of the biggest influences of ALL our lives here, I wonder what I will do when I have kids. Heh, eventually...

It'll be Interesting to see my views then, and what I believe Is best for them.

I was lucky to have my mum as an old raver, who could give me advice, rather than restrain me from using drugs. She never condoned doing too many of course, but I got valuable advice, from what she has known and lived herself.

Im also Interested to know, what were your parents backgrounds? Were they strict with drugs, or not? And how did that affect when you first took drugs and how you were feeling about what you were doing?

I come from a pretty affluent background and my parents attitude towards all things such as drugs and alcohol etc was pretty fair I feel. When I was still to young and ignorant to really know the true effect of all these substances they did their best to, not put me off, but make me aware of the possible dangers to myself from these substances. As I grew older and became a bit more knowledgable about such things ( around 16 or so ) then they began to let me decide for myself. At this point I was smoking weed quite regularly but not to their knowledge. They knew I was drinking and encouraged me to do it responsibly which for the most part I did, obviously still getting drunk etc but not to the point where I was losing complete and utter control of myself and destroying my liver. The weed conversation happened after I'd been at my brothers for a few days and came back home with total red eyes and smelling of smoke, I used some lame excuse to try and pass it off but they weren't going to fall for it. Now at this point I already knew that they were partial to a bit of the ganje themselves and so when my mum called me down for a talk it all went pretty smoothly. As with alcohol she just talked with me about it and encouraged me to not over do it etc, so all in all this chat went well and we both came to an understanding ( she wasnt over the moon about it btw, but what can she really do apart from accept and understand). To this point I don't think she knows I do any Class A's and tbh I think I'd rather keep it that way. I think my brother has mentioned to her that he's done them once or twice but I don't think she'd be quite as understanding about them as with weed. I don't think she'd get angry, just concerned which is understandable from a parental point of view.

So yeh basically overall I feel my mum and dad have reacted and dealt with all well. Also you may have noticed its my mum I mention most in this, thats because she's the one who I guess its easier to talk to about it all. My Dad understands as well but I haven't really talked with him about it as much.

So tehre ya go :wink:

[pixiegirl]

My dad died 10 years ago but from things he told me about his life before he met my mum and while they were dating I know he took drugs. He grew up in the 60s in Brighton, was given a doorkey by his mum at 9 and told to get on with it. He worked as a sound engineer for bands like The Who and used to talk about week long sessions in the studio where they survived on nothing but vodka and orange and toasted banana sandwiches. They stayed out all night on the beach watching the sun come up and had parties where people went for a walk with the kettle and came back with the lead because the kettle had run off... But these realisations came too late and I never had the chance to have an adult conversation with him about such subjects. My dad was totally cool and I still miss him everyday.

My mum, obviously she was married to my dad so is not totally naive. I honestly believe she never got into anything. She told me about the time she got stoned because her friend put hash in the chilli con carne but she was always the straight one changing the records when others were incapable. My mum has a lot to deal with in her life, a lot of stress and worry and I don't give her more to worry about. If she wanted to have 'that talk' with me I'm sure she would. She wants me to be happy and healthy as as long as that is the case then she lets me lead my own life, which I respect her for. I'm pretty sure that if I ever got too far down a self destructive path she'd say or do something.

[spark_plug]

weed at 15 pills at 17 and so on...
i had the urges t do drugs right from when was 13 but i just couldnt get hold of any...guess im kinda glad bout that now. i went through a straight edge stage in my life as well where i just wasnt interested

[ellie]

first thing was poppers on the golf course when i was 14 - thought it was really rubbish! have recently revisited them and they do seem better. Weed as well occasionally at the same age. Then nothing different until 21 :weee:

[wee_dancer]

first thing was poppers on the golf course when i was 14 - thought it was really rubbish! have recently revisited them and they do seem better. Weed as well occasionally at the same age. Then nothing different until 21 :weee:

first time i did poppers as was rather inebriated with drink and didnt have a clue what they were or what to do with them.this ended up in me pouring it onto my hand and snorting it...needless to say i did not react well to it.:laugh_at:

since then i only really enjoy poppers if im on other things aswell otherwise they just give me a killer headache

[Playground Politics]

*turns to jeremy kyle*

drugs ruined my life at 16

*starts crying and ;aughing manically*

[ellie]

since then i only really enjoy poppers if im on other things aswell otherwise they just give me a killer headache

actually, thinking about it, it is only when im on other stuff that they are good. otherwise, as you say, just a bloody headache!

i will have been drunk ...or at least getting there...when i took them i guess (as you do when your 14) so dont know if its a bad mix. just remember everything went yellow for a few seconds then the killer headache!

[smokeitup]

eugh! poppers. nasty.

i remember one time when i was 14 (god- whats wrong with us all?!) i had some hash nicked from me from an 'undercover police officer' who just turned out to be a chavcunt.. a whole 3/4oz of hash.. and it wasnt soapbar either! gutted. all i had left was a bottle of poppers. no hash. just poppers. so what would any normal high-chaser do? sniff sniff sniff! competitions between friends on how many sniffs can you take? i remember people being rediculous and getting as high as 50 sniffs in one hit. mental. i think i only managed 20 or so... anyway.. the day i got my hash nicked was the day i got a blister under my nose from sniffing too much. the entire bottle got caned within a couple of hours.. rank!

[ellie]

the entire bottle got caned within a couple of hours.. rank!

wowser!!

and yes... 14 must be a very curious/bored age!

[DaftFader]

started smoking hash at about 12-13 and it all went down hill from there :laugh_at:

[xFadingObsessionx]

Im also Interested to know, what were your parents backgrounds? Were they strict with drugs, or not? And how did that affect when you first took drugs and how you were feeling about what you were doing?

I didn't know my father .. He left when I was born. However, he contacted me on my 18th birthday .. We met up a couple times, but the second time was kind of by accident (I ran into him in a pub..) when I was tripping really badly and my friends had to take me outside. He asked what was wrong with me and my friends explained what I had taken and the effects.. Afterwards, he rang me up and he came round to my flat and we had a talk about everything. He told me that he was disappointed in me, ashamed of me and that he wished he'd never met me so he wouldn't know what a "disappointment" of a daughter he had. We had a big argument and he walked out of my flat.. The next day, I got a phone call telling me that he'd died ..... Of a drug overdose... At his funeral, I was talking to a couple of his friends and I found out that he'd been taking anything and everything he could get his hands on for the past 20years...

My mother found out when I was 15 that I'd started smoking weed. That was mainly the reason I moved out at 16.. Because she stopped trusting me. She thought EVERYWHERE I went, I was going to go take drugs. She tried to stop me seeing my friends 'cause she thought every single time I went out, I was taking drugs. She became over-paranoid and slightly crazy. She stopped giving me money to go out thinking I was gonna spend it on drugs. Etc.. We don't really get along that well.. Apart from the other day which was weird..>_<

[Scouse]

I was 4 when I had my first toke of a joint, I coughed a 'guddin!

I started smoking hash around 10 or 11 and found a bottle of poppus.

I also remember licking a baggie of base before I went to school one day...

stupid really but I was daft, still am if I'm honest!

[coastie]

I just drunk evrynow and then from the age of about 14 or so I guess and used to smoke weed sometimes when I was out or hangin out with mates. Did'nt do any class A's til I was 21 though, at a club in London. Since then I've only ever done them when in a club or at a party, so its never got any more than once a week at its most frequent. I sat in my house and got absolutely twated as an experiment once, but thought it was a bit of a waste afterwards.

So drugs are for parties and parties only for me, and Im quite happy to keep it that way! The rest of the time I keep pretty active and sociable, eat and sleep well, work hard and all that jazz!

[rachus]

weed at 14

class a's at 19

[DaftFader]

I was 4 when I had my first toke of a joint, I coughed a 'guddin!

I started smoking hash around 10 or 11 and found a bottle of poppus.

I also remember licking a baggie of base before I went to school one day...

stupid really but I was daft, still am if I'm honest!
i snorted a pill in my science lesson at school b4 ...(chemistry of all lessons) that was funny shit ..can't belive i didn't get caught either as i still had half the scool day left >.<:hopeless::you_crazy

[JamZandwich]

I was 14/15 when I started smoking weed at lunchtiumes in school. I'd been drinking before that though, which I guess technically was illegal too. Speed was next at 16/17, E a year later and mushrooms. Acid and all manner of other things 19+

Man, that all seems like a long time ago now.

The time flies dunnit:hopeless:

[General Lighting]

age 15, first cannabis then amfetamines (pharmaceutical ones too, a mate of mine had a script for them (he had some wierd illness) and in those days they always had loads spare!)

was still thought of as fairly shocking behaviour in 1988!

Although my parents were then aspiring middle class British Asians, my dad was a regular user of benzodiazepines (which is why I won't take them today, as they eventually did his kidneys in) and TBH would have taken all sorts of other stuff as well had it not been illegal. Bear in mind they grew up during the 70s hippy era (but completely abandoned this lifestyle in pursuit of thatchos dream). The week before my dad died he finally seemed to realise where I was coming from and the futilty of drugs prohibition...

[Tocooltom]

started smoking weed when i was 13.. it started off just at weekends, but then when i was about 14 i started smoking it in school at breaks and lunch. then my parents found out i smoked it when i was 15 and have smoked it everyday (with the occassional break) since then. i started doing pills and speed when i was 14 too.. was loads of them about on the estate i grew up on.
I got abit of a rep at school for being a druggie too.. i remember on several occasions, other students coming up to me and asking if i could get them anything. A kid i knew come up to me in a science lesson once, put his hand out in front of me with a pill in his hand and asked me what 'brand' of E was it he had. was a mitsubishi turbo i think.

You know wot mate?
Exactly the same happened to me.

I went to private skool where drugs was an aparent taboo, all my so called mates took the piss out of me wen i started smokin weed everyday, and it got even worse once the found wot i got up to at raves when i was 15, i was branded a druggie too, but wot makes me laugh now, 2 years later, is that more than half my old class mates are on drugs, whereas before it was only one other guy in my year, a few of them are addicts already, and they are only 17. Its funny coz ive never been addcited to anything and i can freely laugh in their faces when i see them, they wernt there for me when i started doing drugs, so they can get fucked if they want my advice now that they need it!:laugh_at:

[General Lighting]

I went to private skool where drugs was an aparent taboo, all my so called mates took the piss out of me wen i started smokin weed everyday, and it got even worse once the found wot i got up to at raves when i was 15, i was branded a druggie too,

lol this is exactly the atttude I encountered at my normal comprehensive high school - 20 years ago!!!

[wee_dancer]

lol this is exactly the atttude I encountered at my normal comprehensive high school - 20 years ago!!!

+1...except it was only 3 months ago for me:crazy:

[Dom_sufc]

Its funny, people who DIDN'T do drugs were normally the ones being branded lol.

Maybe I just went to a shit school :laugh_at:

[JonnyQuest]

first smoked hash when i was about 9 but didnt really get into drugs proper till 14-15

[MurrayMintxox]

i woz jus bout turn 12 had ma first weed coz of da olda lad i woz wit smoked it he woz 14 :s

[n.r.g]

weed and acid at 11 fully paid up member of the pills weed gargle and whatever your havin yourself club at 14

[Tek Offensive]

same old shizzle, weed from 14 and my first pill at 16.

dont smoke the weed anymore tho, i think that seemed to fuck me up more than anything after a while.

[thewhiterabbit72]

i say between 14 and 15 but that wasnt an option so.... but yup i started with weed... Mmmmm:love: