My mate sitting next to me says this -
"14 y/o - ethanol/nicotene -
Drunk off bourbon in the bush, apparently smoking ciggerettes up my nose that night, got left out of the tent sleeping in the rain, discovered the amnesiacal amok-ness of alcohol, many crazy forgotten nights that make me cringe, and laugh.
15 y/o - cannabis/mda -
Gatorade billies in some shed at night with some friends, had about 4 cones before i suddenly got smmmmmmmmmmmmacked in the head by some intense dysphoria and audial hallucinations, then later, godly doritos.
10 months later, first pill (beige e, suspected mda), started slightly feeling it while waiting to meet a hilarious weed dealer, then police came and asked to search our bags because they were looking for someone who had graffed a shop, my bag contained weed, bowl, snips, and a extremely sus-looking lightbulb vape (for thc), somehow, right before they opened my bag, random person ran out of nowhere and said they had caught the graffer, cop puts down my bag, i wait and buy weed, somehow am perfectly chilled entire time not really realising how close i came to getting busted. Ending up tripping absolute joyful balls, friends had gone to sleep when i started peaking, while listening to Shpongle's first album for the first time, extreme joyful psychedelia.
16 y/o - Lsd/various "ecstacy" tablets (suspected contents varying from the absolute empathic psychdelia of mdma to disassociative/amphet/myserybunk nightmares), Nitrous oxide
First lsd was amazing, less spiritual than i expected, but amazing, clean and colourful, peaked in the raindrops and heaving rhino-skinned roads with 2 friends.
17 y/o - Psilocybe Mushrooms/codeine (around the same time stopped using alcohol/pills/anytobacco after first encounter with those sacred fungi)
Crazily intense beyond-epic first mushroom trip with 5 friends in a big wooden house in the bush, complete ego loss at peak, visions i can never begin to put into words or even memory, most intense spiritual moment of life possibly then 5 hours of rippling psilocybin soul therapy and full blown exploding wild OEV's, mutually-felt telapathy with a friend, I'm sure peeps understand, they truely are like a bridge or tool to a new, yet ancient perspective, of all time, some message hidden in the flora..
lots of very epic/spiritual/terrifying/bonding/hilarious psychedelic experiences between 16-18
Comfy codeine experiences, nothing too amazing.
18y/o - First Oxycodone (3-4 spaced-out extremely enjoyable experiences), first poppy tea/opium experiences.
A few naively-dosed poppy tea OD's during a short play with them, very glad the whole container of instant coffee i drank managed to keep my aware enough to breathe through the night, had to work next day, silly, lucky, kid.
19 y/o - diazepam
Diazepam for a month or so while detoxing off codeine/poppyseedtea dependency gained while using analgesics daily for non-malignant pain
20 y/o - Lots and lots of poppy seed tea
Made poppyseed tea for a year and a half, felt amazing for first few months, no neck pain, got worried about withdrawals and un-supportable non-prescribed opiate dependency so decided to ween off, very uncomfortable time weening off with unreliable non-standardised supply
21y/o - alprazolam/dihydrocodeine/tiny bit of insufflated high-quality m-amphet one night at a party.
xanax use consisting of once-a-fortnight 1mg for muscle pain and good sleep, or for a rare stimulant comedown, never been into stimulants, mostly because i can feel their impact on my body very keenly, and they exacerbate neck pains/general anxieties, daily low-dose codeine (60mg if not in much pain).
Very rarely drink/party in general any more, my days consist of opiates/mochas/cannabis/rare respectful fungi voyages.
Peace"