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at what age did you start understanding the appeal of drugs?

sarcophagus.heels said:
I've been fascinated by drugs for a long time - probably since I was around 10 or so, when we first started talking about them in school. Of course, the talk was always negative, but I've always been pretty good at separating fact from bullshit. I didn't actually try any drugs until I smoked pot for the first time when I was 14, but I always found them incredibly interesting, and planned on trying quite a number of them when the opportunity arose.
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Sounds very similar to my experience. I had several older relatives (two cousins, two aunts, one uncle) who did very little/nothing to disguise their drug use from the family, so I was tried pot with various family members at a very young age (10? 11?). I was extremely curious about altering consciousness from the get-go. I can remember pouring over erowid/shroomery trip reports on a 28k dial-up modem when I was 10-12 and just being absolutely fascinated. I love music, philosophy, and exploring the unknown and hallucinogens seemed to be a panacea of amazing-- when I finally got to eat some cubensis at 13/14, it only confirmed all of my suspicions and it was off to the races to try every psycho-active compound I could get my hands on.

I had always stated that I pretty much wanted to try everything at least once, to make up my own mind about it. So I pretty much did. Things I liked, I tried em twice...
 
SirTophamHat said:
I began to understand their appeal at about age 16, but it wasn't for 2-3 more years that the downhill path I was on became more clear.
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Exactly the same here =[ If only I could go back in time and tell myself not to withdraw from society as drugs can't replace people.
 
I smoked pot for the first time when I was 14 and didn't try it again until I was 20. It all started when I got drunk for the first time at 19 and realized that all my insecurities/depression were gone and I was the life of the party for the first time. That's when it sunk in...

After being prescribed Adderall last summer, I truly realized the positive effects that drugs can have on somebody and that they aren't going to fuck up your life if you don't let them(the opposite of everything we learned in school). I started to smoke weed to ease the crash of the Adderall and I got super intro/retrospective and ended up learning a lot about myself that summer, all because of the mind altering substance experiences I had.

The most important part is being able to control yourself and your usage. Always recreational for me
 
I don't remember a time where I didn't understand the addiction side of drugs, even though I did not have anyone in my life as a child to watch "be" an addict, alcoholic, whatever. I understood the whole addiction part behind it but never had a personal interest in chemicals until age 18 when a psychiatrist rx'd me lorazepam.

The childhood Just Say No/DARE classes just showed me that anti-drugs and fundamental christians went hand in hand, and since I found the latter repulsive I automatically disagreed with anti drug mentality. (absolutely no disrespect intended towards any christian members here mind you!) Those classes never made me fascinated more more interested in drugs though.
 
I was 13/14 when it finally clicked in my head. I was like, wow, I've been fed a lot of bullshit about drugs - time to get out there and see what's really good. That started one of the most intense, euphoric, insane, disturbing, trips through life as a teenager.

Going on like 8/9 years now. I've calmed down, but only because I learned the hard way.
 
13 and 14 as well. Got into high school and was completely surrounded by it. Realized the bull shit and havent looked back since.
 
*This is why I created a Bluelight account :3

I can still remember the first time I tasted the bitter drip from insufflating hydrocodone for the first time. Believe it or not I instantly fell in love with the euphoria that came with it and sense has become my drug of choice. I was fifteen and a freshman in high school. Recreational drug use, I personally believe, should be tolerated with MODERATION.

For me, I still get anxious when drugs are involved in any situation but that is just my disposition to them. Exploration and understanding yourself is what life is all about. Live it up but just remember that there is always a fine line where ever you tread :D
 
I first smoked pot when I was 13. I didn't really get their appeal until probably around freshman/sophomore year of high school. By then I'd done everything from pot and shrooms to coke and Oxy.
 
I have an older sister, so I began smoking pot at about 12. It was fun, and I smoked weed pretty regularly up until about eighth grade. I even grew a plant in my sister's closet; her room was upstairs and, for whatever reason, my mother just never went up there.

I got to high school and had a real bad experience smoking pot, oh, and my sister basically became a total drug addict over night in the most ridiculously cliche, commercial-worthy way imaginable; she basically lost her job overnight, wrecked her car, got arrested... all in like, a week's time. It was absurd, and I became real turned off to drugs until my junior year in college.

I tried adderall, loved it, took lots and lots of adderall, got a prescription for it, and then I got a prescription for klonopin, and then xanax, and then I tried percocet, vicodin, oxycontin, and eventually heroin.

.... TADA! =D
 
My father was a parole officer so when I was little I always heard these stories of people having to go back to jail because they failed a drug test. I became curious about drugs when I was 9-10. I thought that they must be fun if people are risking going to jail to do it.
 
I didn't know what pot looked like when I was 16 when I first found out what it was. Within a year, I had dropped acid for the first time. I smoked my first cig at 16 and up until I was 16, I thought drugs were the devil. My grandmother got me on probie for arguing with her though and I was like, I guess I'm a troublemaker now so I'll hang out with kids that do drugs and so I started hanging out with a high school pot dealer and everything went from there.
 
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