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In reply to the discussion: Do you remember the first time you smoked marijuana?? [View all]True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)The first time I smoked weed was between the fence of someone's backyard and a bunch of manicured shrubberies facing the road.
I was 13, in 1996. It was me and two other guys who I considered my friends, although I don't think they thought much of me.
We had this metallic purple anodized aluminum pipe piece. I was on antidepressants at the time (a staple of the Orwellian suburbs), and wasn't aware of the fact that antidepressants and dopamine-enhancing compounds like THC would massively multiply each other.
Since it was only a pipe piece and not a full pipe, it got hot very fast and burned my lips a little. But I was 13, so even that seemed cool.
At first, it was fun because it was new and "bad." Then it was like the world started expanding - little things looked big. I said these exact words... "Everytime I look at the plants..." and said nothing more, because the waist-high shrubberies around us expanded into a mystical forest. The weed wasn't laced with anything - it was just hugely enhanced by my antidepressants. They chuckled at my sentence fragment, and we parted company.
I started walking home down the cul-de-sac suburban street. As I walked, reality contracted down to a single keyhole point...and ended, for just a moment. I woke up still in the midst of walking, and the world was utterly different. Every moment was an isolated slate of experiences, quickly replaced by another. I was in a dream, but not a dream. I was terrified, and elated. The sky was an indigo infinity. Other people in the distance walked by, but they repeated in loop. In rational terms I now knew that this was what marijuana was, but I wished I hadn't smoked it. My heart felt like it struggled to beat, and I was terrified that it would stop.
When I went home, I was terrified that someone would know, but nobody gave any sign. I crashed on my bed hoping to fall asleep so that it would be over, and eventually it was. But ever since the world was changed.