Why did you start smoking cannabis?

[Wayne36]

Over 40 years ago (dam i feel old) was recreational and still is for me i love to get totally wasted. These days i try to keep it to w/ends and evenings no more all day smoking.

Yea I cant do the day smokinging unless I am home and not leaving the house lol if you like to get wasted just eat a bunch of edibles lol

[Wayne36]

I was 11 and in the first year of secondary school, stayed at a mates house one night after an atheletics competition and it all went down hill from there lol. Initially tried it because i thought it was cool i guess, carried on because i liked it although getting hold of dope in the early teens could be a bit problematic. I knew about it all from about 8 years old cus alot of my friends back home were in their teens, they'd let me have the ciggies but not the spliffs though. As i got older i just carried on and my circle of friends all all smoked too. These days there's only a few of us smokers left and althiugh ive had alot if breaks i always come back

Dam you smoked at 8 that's crazy yeah my gf now didnt like me smoking so I quite for awhile but than said screw it cause she likes to drink so why cant u go back to indulging myself lol

[Wayne36]

I was around 13/14 tried it with a few mates and loved it from the first puff, the smell and relaxation what’s not to love. Then I started work and drink kind of took over as my go to social drug, used to work with a white Barbadian guy when I was an apprentice and we used to do jobs and the have spliffs after work, then I had a long break only having it off and on and only really discovered it again and started using it for medicinal reasons by now it’s flower not hash, started growing outdoors about 5 years ago and I think il continue my relationship with the mother herb till I leave this planet as it makes things better in lots of ways. Plus the community is awesome.

Yea I first tried it when I was 15/16 yea the community is deffeinttly awesome

[Wayne36]

For me it all begun for medical reasons and it still is. Had an erupted disk in my lower back 5 years ago and did undergo surgery that not ended as planned since i since then got chronic pain 24/7 and severe pain as well. So among all of us here at GR420 i'm fairly new when it comes to cannabis and i am learning stuff every day.

Due to how my situation is i don't see myself stop using cannabis for medical reasons since i don't see myself becoming pain free in a near or distant future. And besides i kinda like the effect it has on me and i definitely like the flavor i get out of some strains when i vape them.

Hey man I kno what chronic pain feels like cause I have been diagnosed with it and feel yea I say if you can stay away from the narcotics like the stuff that gets you addicted and stay with weed you will benfit more from cannabis more 100%

[Wayne36]

Because air just wasn't cutting it....lol

I started when I was about 17 and smoked on and off since then (Mainly on ) then I stopped for many years, got married, she didn't smoke...

Started again to try and manage my chronic pain and it works better than morphine!

I laughed so hard when I read cause air wasnt cutting it lmao yea I know the feeling of having chronic pain it sucks and I am glad cannabis helps your more I fine drugs like that just makes the pain or makes you like your in outer space

[Wayne36]

Started at 17. Always a square kid and drugs were a no to me. Obviously weed at school was in the drug talks as tbe devils drug to lead you on to worse things but I couldn't understand how a plant could be in that group.
Wanted to try had opportunity to so did.

Now a 35 year old mother of 2 a d not a crack head so don't think what that were telling us at school was quite right.

I'm a total recreational smoker and always have been its only now I've really looked at is as a medicine too

oh nice so your like that cool hippie mom now ;)
And ya the whole gate way thing was probally a lie from the truth that cannabis makes all feel better and brings everyone together

[Wayne36]

I honestly didn’t start smoking until a little over a year ago. When I got sick I realized quickly that doctors where only going to load me with hard core pain meds and I wanted a more natural option

Well I hope your feeling better ... yes more natural options are always better especially if you can grow your own herbs or many different plants and not give your money to pharmaceutical companies that just cause more harm

[Wayne36]

I was 16 and showed up over at a friends house. It was a boring Saturday afternoon. My older friends pulled out a pipe and they started passing it around. It got to me and they asked if I wanted a hit. So I tried it. Five minutes later I was amazed by the lights on the equalizer. A bit later the older girl that was there taught me how to kiss. It defiantly made a boring day fun.

Oh nice 2 experiences in the same day love those days lol

[Wayne36]

I was like 12 when i first got introduced and actually smoked it. I just wanted to feel good honestly.. i was already smoking cigs and stealing chewing tobacco from family members ha. Now i use it recreationally for enjoying my day but i see it majorly for medicinal. I supper from BPD, Bipolar, Anxiety and my OCD. Its a life safer and i dont use the 7 pills i use to take a day.. only 3 now and all at night. I smoke about every 2 hours while working or at home.. i dont really see it as getting high anymore kinda just like getting normal

Chewing tobacco I could never do it kinda burns lol yea loved just coming home after work after a crazy day smoking one feeling relaxed and playing some video games and yeah those anxciety meds if you can take less that's great I took so many kinds and they always made me feel drunk or just not myself at all so I gotta find other ways to help with the anxciety glad it has helped you ;)

[Wayne36]

Well I want to thank you all for sharing you experiences with me it's quite crazy how me all came to cannabis and for many reasons ... so now to share mine ... started smoking when I was 15or 16 in high school thought it was cool lol and everyone that i knew was doing it skip class etc lol over the years i liked just getting high being stupid laughing and just having a good time along the way yea did drugs here and there but never got addicted thank god but always like my weed ..... loved the wake and bake and going to work coming home after a long shift and smoking one and start playing video games for many years than in 2010 went snowboarding trip with a bunch of people from work and hurt myself really bad on the bunny hill I know its embarrassing but I was cruising fast and landed the wrong way very hard after that was on light duty at work healing on the way to work was in a bad car accident since than I now have chronic pain anxiety server nerve damage and mental health cause of it all. I dont take hard pain pills except like nerve blockers and I find weed helps me with my pain allot cause my nerves dont fire asmuch causing ne more pain but depending on the strain which I never pay attention it can make my anxiety a bit worst ... but I manage better than some cray pharmaceuticals that will just cause more damage so yea I started of recreationally and now I do it for pain but you could say I do it both now but been having issues with my lungs so might go towards the edibles but I'll smoke till the end thanks for stopping by and sharing your experiences:)