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In reply to the discussion: Do you remember the first time you smoked marijuana?? [View all]Pastiche423
(15,406 posts)I had already been hanging around people that smoked for about a year. I told them I wasn't ready and they din't push.
On a summer night in June I was at a girlfriend's house. I decided that night would be the night. We smoked a joint, my first but certainly not last. What I discovered, was that pot slowed me down to almost normal. For a very hyper person, this was a fabulous find! It also was an answer to my chronic insomnia.
I continued to smoke until I moved cross country and lost my connection. For the next several years, I smoked only very occasionally.
Then I was injured (TBI, paralyzed). For a number of years I listened to the doctors like a good patient and took the chemicals they told me would help my pain. But they din't do shit for the pain and, in fact made my health worse. At my wits end, I decide to try pot again. My body is very glad I did.
I've smoked every night since 2005 and supplement it with a glorious substance which I call my Love Potion (Cannabis oil).
I do not get high. It is my medicine .
And on November 4, 2014 it became legal in my state of Oregon.