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In reply to the discussion: Do you remember the first time you smoked marijuana?? [View all]Bagsgroove
(231 posts)I was already deep on the way to full blown alcoholism in high school...then I started smoking pot and pretty much stopped drinking. I used marijuana more or less daily all the way through college. Always got good grades, never wrecked a car or got in a fight or passed out on somebody's lawn. A few years after college I'd mostly lost touch with the connections I used to have to get pot, and my drinking resumed.
Within a couple years of quitting pot and resuming drinking, I'd been fired twice, arrested twice, evicted from my apartment and just about at rock bottom. I was only 26. Even then, it took me another 4 years of misery before I quit drinking.
I've never understood the panic parents have that their kids might go off to college and "experiment" with marijuana...yet they have no problem with feeding the kids a drink or two when they come home on break. In my sex-drugs-and rock n' roll days I tried just about every drug I could get my hands on. Not one of them was -- for me anyway -- as powerful or as life-destroying as alcohol.
I'm glad this country is finally coming to it's senses on the subject of marijuana. Never thought I'd live to see the day.