Never.
Lots when I was a younger thing…I think I spent the whole year of 1978 either stoned or rolling a joint to get stoned. Ahhh, good times…well, the bits I can remember anyway. 
Nowadays pot is just too damned potent for my delicate sensibilities. The very few times I have indulged in recent years, I’ve been on my arse with one or two tokes.
Not so good times. 
HIJACK ALERT!!
Hey, LouisB, your post brought back a memory of a book I used to own when I got my first VW. Were you involved in the production of “The Idiots Guide to Volkswagen Repairs” (by John Muir) by any chance??? One of the funniest (and most helpful) books I have ever read in my life btw.
I was in college early to mid 70’s. It was what we did. Now, I wouldn’t touch the stuff. I have friends who smoke and I can’t stand to be around when they do. The smell gives me headaches. I’m such a geezer anymore. Plus, we get random drug tested at work, so I never know when I’ll get to go pee in a little cup.
Still consider myself a pot smoker, but I don’t smoke nearly the amount other people do (and never did). I’m a quarterly, two-toke kinda gal. I prefer shitty pot to good pot because I’m extremely susceptible to the high. A joint lasts me six months. I hate the feeling of being Too Stoned (though I know many people who don’t believe there IS such a thing).
I’m fully behind legalization and have smoked it with my elderly, ex-corporate insurance VP father many times. Just last month, as a matter of fact.
Another person who went to college in the early '70s – of course I did, often, for years.
I’m truly surprised at the number of people saying no – kids today!
(slight hijack) Have you ever actually been tested? I know many people who want to smoke and don’t because of the random thing, but I don’t actually know anyone who’s been asked to make a deposit. Just curious.
(I don’t think I smoke enough for it to even show up the next day!)
My guess is that many current smokers won’t reply to this thread for obvious reasons, therefore it will be skewed towards “no”.
Not I.
Your screen name made me think you’d be at the top of the list!
Don’t think I’ve ever even seen pot in real life!! So, nope.
Through most of high school (St. Francis Prep). I quit because I got paranoid when smoking.
Not once. I tried smoking a regular cigarette and found it so foul that I had no desire to try a joint.
When I was in college, in the mid-80s, pot was seen as sort of passé among the crowd I hung out with. We mostly drank like fish, and the people who were into more than that did coke.
Yep, still do. I’m 35 now and started when I was about 15.
I’m currently on secondment for 3 months in Amsterdam. You do the math 
I was born in 1960.
Y’know, this is the most interesting poll I have seen on The Dope since forever. I was sure that each of the posts would be a simple ‘Yep’ rather than the many who claim that, not only have they never smoked a joint, but at least one who hasn’t ever SEEN dope in the (foliar) flesh.
I am amazed.
Well, I’m 19 and I’ve never smoked pot, nor do I ever intend to. In fact, I only smelled pot for the first time last month. At a Coldplay concert, there was a vile odor in my section. “What’s that?” I asked my companions. “It’s pot, you moron.” Oh.
The again, I’ve never smoked a cigarette, done any drugs (sauf prescriptions), and I’ve had exactly half of one beer in my life.* It’s mostly for health concerns. I want to live to be 90 so that I can be the crotchety old man telling the kids with their drug du jour, “That’ll kill you, sonny.” But beyond that, I can’t stand the idea of not being in complete control of my mind. The prospect frightens me to no end. The prospect that I might enjoy it is even more terrifying.
- funny story, that: A dozen kids from my high school went to Hong Kong last year, and I was the oldest by far. And I discovered that the drinking age was 18, so I decided to buy a beer just to spite everyone else. The only brand I recognized was Heineken, so that’s what I got. And I walked over to the rest of the group, raised my bottle triumphantly, and started to chug. And immediately spewed German beer all over myself. It was disgusting! But I gamely drank the rest of th bottle. And that’s the story of the only alcohol Mayo plans to ever drink.
(bolding mine)
Just out of curiosity, why the disbelief? I’m sure there are a variety of reasons for why people may not have ever tried pot, and I don’t think I’d be too surprised at any of them.
These days, I suspect the desire of some to live healthy lifestyles (watching what they eat, exercising routinely) also doesn’t leave a lot of room for drinking, smoking, snorting, etc.
Yup. Not in decades, though.
This would have been interesting if the responders also included their age and nationality. I’m in my late 40’s and agree that a majority of us children of the 60’s and 70’s tried pot. But from the 80’s on, I’m not so sure.
30 years old, and no. And I do regret it, I wish I had at least tried once in college.
I do remember in 7th grade some girl passing around a small bag of loose leaves to eat? chew? Right in the class, and the teacher never even noticed. I said no. I mean I was 12!
I was all day, everyday smoker, up until two weeks ago, since about 2002. Cravings are still high, no pun intended. I felt I needed to quit because I was getting depressed a bit with it. I don’t blame the pot for the depression, but I don’t think it help while on it. I still feel down sometimes, but not as much since I quit. I’m sure I’ll crack if I come around the stuff again… but for now, I’m pretty much ignoring all calls that might be related to the stuff. We’ll see how it goes.