started medically for me. i had smoked weed since freshman year of highschool and started my love affair with lsd that summer, but sophomore year i began to see symptoms of a relatively serious nerve disorder. easiest way i can put it is that i have flare ups of muscular fasiculations that used to put me in the hospital for pain. as you could probably see, openness to substances + medical necessity/availability = no good.
at this same time, i was selling alot of weed. like, ALOT of weed. enough to make a living off it, so it would be nothing for me to buy scripts of oc 60s like as i felt like it. inevitably this lead to experimentation, and subsequently recreation (as well as my trying many, many, many substances over the years). i found that they not only killed physical pain, but also emotional pain in a way far better and cleaner than alcohol did.
but then shit hit the fan socially for me, got clean/stopped selling earlier this year, stopped everything for awhile, then recent availability has kind of shot me in the foot lately. luckily my girlfriend really helps me keep as close to the straight and narrow as i can be.
you asked, therefor you shall receive
edit: ms: you should probably put the pic in nsfw tags. and sorry, never seen 'em before.