How did you get into smoking cannabis?

I started about 2 years ago the summer going into my senior year in high school, so I was 17 years old.

So I had (still have) a group of college friends and they all became huge stoners. I'm pretty sure I was the only one out of all of them that had never smoked weed in my life. Anyways, me and the guys were having a LAN party one day and towards the middle of it they all went outside to have a smoke break. However, I was too nervous to join so I declined their offer. But, at the time I was becoming more interested and open minded about the possibility of trying out weed and I always wanted to know what it felt like, and I kinda hated myself for declining. However, a little later they decided to have another smoke break and after thinking about it for a few minutes, I just said, "fuck it", and decided to join them. I went outside with them and they were passing around a blunt, and when it got to me I took a couple hits off of it. Obviously, I had no idea how to smoke and I was keeping it all in my mouth instead of actually inhaling it into my lungs. So, I didn't really feel anything after that sesh I was kind of disapointed.

However, later that night the guys decided to have ANOTHER smoke break. I figured since it was my first time smoking ealier, that maybe I just smoked the blunt wrong and if I try it again, then maybe I can get high, so I decided to join them. So when we went into our friends room he had something much different from a blunt, a fucking bong! Our friend packed the bowl, took a huge milky hit and began to pass it around the circle. When it got to me I had no idea how to use the fucking thing, but luckily they helped me out by lighting it for me while I inhaled. I took the hit, exhaled and started coughing like crazy. The bong went around the circle again and I started to feel better once it came back to me, so I decided to take another hit. My friends let me light it myself when it came back to me, but however, I had no idea that you had to pull out the stem whenever you took a bong rip, so I was just sitting there holding the lighter at the bowl just pulling in more, more and more smoke. The hit was so big that the bong almost turned yellow. After the guys realized I had no idea what I was doing they took it away and cleared the rest of the smoke for me. After they did that I started coughing like crazy. My lungs were hurting so bad that I needed to step outside. I was coughing so much that I felt like I was gonna fucking puke (I didn't).

After I pulled myself together and calmed down, I went back inside and sat down. A few minutes later, though, I started to feel it, and it was coming on pretty hard. I was so amazed by this new feeling I was experiencing, I've never felt anything like that before. After being amazed by this high, I just decided to sit back, relax, put on some headphones and listened to music. Holy fuck, the high was extremely intense, I must have been at at least a [9] if not a [10]. I must have sat in that chair for at least 3 to 4 hours straight just listening to music and staring off into space. It was the most amazing time of my life.

I think I became a different person that night, I used to be very against marijuana legalization and judged people for smoking it. I was always taught that it was a harmful and addictive drug that ruined peoples lives. However, I felt like it made my life even better.

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