It's a funny one really. I don't regret smoking gear, but I do regret the fact that I got so sucked into it, and that, subsequently, it took me almost five years to kick. I started smoking when I was 13/14, and from the age of 15 through to about 25, you could count on one hand the days that I didn't smoke every second I wasn't at work.
I cruised my GCSE's because i was pretty switched on, and from 16 years on I was smoking gear, taking speed, pills, mushrooms. lsd, coke and alcohol.
I completely fu
cked my A-levels because I was too busy having a great time.
I also managed to screw up a uni course (surprise surprise).
I had to quit in the end. I was getting pretty messed up. Stupid frigging anxiety problems with ridiculous symptoms and staying up all night smoking and getting no sleep meant that work was a real struggle. relationship broke down at that time, although it was fu
cked anyway because I was too young and selfish to care.
I can't honestly say I know how I feel about all this. I have had
teriffic times, spent years getting stoned, taking drugs, out on the piss, learning to dj and collecting great music, and now I work for a community drug and alcohol charity, supporting those in recovery and working with offenders with drug/alcohol problems.
but i am damn skint (mainly because I spend a fortune on records)
and my head is not quite what it was!
and I don't miss the years from age 21-25 when I desperately wanted to quit and failed again and again.
Pot seems harmless enough, and for many people it is. It's a super drug, no doubt! But be a little bit careful about getting a heavy habit. Addiction is a bugger, and you don't always see it coming
I'm still a fu
cking pot obsesive, I love the drug, and I know that if I start, I just wont stop.
heh
them drugses. they so good ;-/