Hi. I am 28 years old and for some reason I decided to smoke pot. I have never done this before… but I am not unfamiliar with the subject. Two years out of high school I was working in a head shop/record store, I did this for 3 years. Believe it or not I never tried or wanted to try pot in the time before or during this period, partially due to all the loosers coming into the shop and so forth. I have always wondered what it was about though… was I missing somethin interesting?? This has bothered me for some time… so several years ago I decided that if I got the chance I would try it and find out for myself. WELL, last november I moved to Las Vegas and settled in a new house in a good neighborhood. Slowly I have been making friends with the neighbor next door and he has been helping us with labor things like roto-tilling the yard and planting grass and he offered to build us a car port for material cost and so forth, he is a real nice guy. We have basicly become friends, however, I have never seen this guy without a beer in his hand before. But I am a beer drinker so I accept this. Yesterday I am out weed-eating the yard just after dawn and he comes over and we start talking and hanging out outside and drinking beer. We both have had a couple too few by this point and somehow, (dont ask me I dont remember) marajuana comes up… and I mention how I used to work at a head shop, but how I hadnt smoked ANYTHING in over a year (I ment cigarettes which I quit, but I implied both I guess). He asked me if I would like to smoke a bowl, so knowing that I had always wondered what it was like I said sure. So I go in his backyard and we light up. I smoked pot and I found out it was pretty much like being drunk… somehow I expected more. I realized my expectiations were stonger then the reality. Did I miss something?? I really expected that I would get a clear mind and feel happy and relaxed… but really it didnt feel different from being intoxicated with a clouded mind. I was kinda dissapointed, I dont think I will do it again soon. I have had odd emotions about this all day, like WHY at this point (and adulthood) in my life I would try this. arrrghhh… I dont know… what are your all’s feelings about what I did?
Prohibition laws are stupid. You tried it, you liked it OK but it wasn’t fabulous, you probably won’t do it again. I don’t see a problem. But in future you might want to phrase confessions of illegal activities either as hypotheticals or as “my friend” scenarios (“my friend smoked pot”). There’s always a chance some hard-ass will turn you in.
Did I say it was me?? it wasnt… It was a close friend of mine… sometimes so close I take on his experiences… 
It felt like you were drunk because you WERE drunk! Alcohol intoxication is far more powerful than pot and can often overshadow a good weed buzz. And many people (me included) didn’t get high in the LEAST the first time they smoked pot. (Now, the second time, that’s another story!)
Try it again, but without alcohol.
The first few times you get high may feel unduly strong and otherwordly with incredible euphoria and giggle attacks. After you smoke for a little while, though, the effects aren’t nearly as overwhelming.
Also I’m wondering why you consider marijuana use “very wrong,” but don’t have much of a problem with alcohol which is far more dangerous than marijuana. But I don’t want to turn this thread into one of those endless debates, so I’ll just shut my mouth now.
For some people, there is absolutely no buzz when experienced for the first times. Others can feel insecure or sick, especially when having a couple of beers.
I suggest that you try again while listening music you really like. It improves the senses!
Being a regular smoker since 5 years, marijuana hasn’t the same effect on me anymore. The first times I was just laughing my ass off! Now, you don’t want to miss those hilarious buzzes, do you?
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Whether or not you ever choose to smoke up again is your choice. I will say that it took me two times of partaking before I ever got the real “buzz”. It is nothing like alcohol. Personally I feel alcohol is the greater evil as it is extremely physically addictive whereas pot has never shown any physical addiction properties. I urge you to do what you feel is right for you. I am not trying to turn you into a wastoid. I am simply stating that , in my opinion, you did not get the full marijuana effect.
*It is illegal.*It is also one of the most creativity inducing experiences I have ever had. I suppose I am lucky. Most smoke up and giggle at the TV. The friend who introduced me to this drug also introduced me to poetry . . . Whitman and Shakespeare and others. We would get high and write. The only time in my life I have ever been published came from those sessions.
Everything above comes from my experience and mine alone. Yours may be different. But I belive this : dope is no worse, and may in fact be better, than alcohol. So, regulate them both (1920’s) or regulate neither.
My 5 cents . . .
nothingman
Warning: Poster may be slightly, or very inebriated.
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You think smoking pot is wrong, bu drinking beer at DAWN is OK?
I need to slam my head into the concrete a few times for this to make sense.
You’d think that Superman would be a good person to invite to a barbecue but trust me, he’s not. I mean, sure he can cook the hot dogs fast with his heat vision, but they all taste of charred eye boogers.
I would say, why do either? Pot is illegal I hope you don’t have to take drug tests where you work. Alcohol is illegal to a point, just get in your car and drive after a couple of beers and see where you end up.
Completely off the subject, non-cigarette smokers constantly complain about the health problems dealing with people who smoke, yet those people who have a daily joint see nothing wrong with the chemicals going in their lungs from pot. Smoke is smoke to me. You get damage either way.
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I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.
You did something really wrong and it didn’t feel good, are bad things always suppose to feel good? then must be bad most of the time!
whatever
Nanno, have all 96 of your posts been so incoherent? Yeesh? Come on man, you’re talking like Nanobyte and bj0rn rolled into one!
Um, yeah, next time try starting out sober. I enjoy pot.
And beer at dawn?
I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.
I think the chemicals that concern non-smokers are not so much the ones that come from the tobacco itself but those used in processing the tobacco.
I’d say there’s a big difference between one daily joint and 40 daily cigarettes.
NOT MORNING DAWN!! What the hell do you call it??.. The dawn of evening… just before late afternoon turns to dark… DUSK!!! thats what I ment… DAMN, I honestly couldnt think of it till I typed it… LOL
the “evening dawn” is called dusk
While there is nothing morally wrong with doing pot (or speeding) you can get into much more trouble than it’s worth so I recommend abstaining (and as you see it is overrated anyway)