Smoked my first joint at 10. Learned to inhale at 12.
Tried psychedelics a few times in my youth. I don't care for tripping and laughing and can't stop. I was careful about it. I figured one dose of anything is sufficient. I tried mescaline, and blotter paper acid that looked like snoopy. Didn't hallucinate just giggled my ass off and danced all night long with my friends.
Tried coke quite a few times back in the day. Made me a nervous wreck, I am already high strung so to hell with paranoia making me peep out the curtains, have an accelerated heart rate and having crazy thoughts. Shit is poison, have no desire to touch it again and haven't in nearly 2 decades.
Had relaxed pot smoking, partying musician parents so I had my first beer at probably 11 and got drunk with my mom at the river camping on little miller ponies when I was about 13.
Because I could drink and eventually smoke weed with my parents when I was around 16, I never ran that wild and NEVER got in trouble. I didn't have to sneak to drink or smoke weed so I didn't really abuse it, and was a happy drunk in social situations. I still don't care to drink alone. I want to be enjoying those drinks with other people. The older I get the less I enjoy drinking cause for some shitty reason I can sometimes have 2 or 3 beers and feel extremely hung over and not even gotten drunk. Alcohol can be fun and my hubs loves when I get shitfaced because I get so "friendly" haha! But I can't deal with the hangover crap so I rarely drink over one or two.
I have never been arrested, live decently, and don't seem too burnt out or fried too many brain cells just yet.
But I am an MJ lover for life. I've went without it and quit for a year or so at a time but I always come back to sweet Mary Jane. She helps me in so many ways, from cramps to stress and anxiety, MJ is the only one I care to partake in on a regular basis.