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Showing Original Post only (View all)Do you remember the first time you smoked marijuana?? [View all]
I grew up in the mountains of Kentucky and had never seen a marijuana cigarette until I arrived in Vietnam in September of 1967. I had been in country for about 3 days and was sent on a detail with 2 other GIs to help put some concertina wire around the north end of this little village. We were told that a truck would pick us up later in the evening. (Concertina wire was nothing but barbed wire stretched out like a huge slinky)
No sooner than the truck had left and the other two GIs lit up a joint. Then they started laughing. They offered it to me but I refused because I was afraid it might make me forget where I was and I would get killed or I would get hooked on drugs? I had read about the terrible effects of marijuana in my high school health class.
The other GIs had been in the country for a while and they kept smoking and laughing while I tried to get some work accomplished. Needless to say, I succumbed to the peer pressure and when we were picked up later in the day, very little work had been done.
I had many adventures with marijuana through the years - enough stories to probably write a book? But I was never busted.
Now, I live in Colorado and I am a patient in the Medical Marijuana program. I can get weed anytime I want it. I can buy as little as a gram for $5 or $6 dollars.
But strangely, I smoke less now than anytime in my life. I never became hooked and I do not have a craving for it. I smoke it as much for my spiritual health as for my medical conditions. That's 47 years and I am still tokin'....