I'm pretty sure I was inhaling correctly. Breathing and being able to hold my breath had been something I was accustomed to for 14 or so years at the time. I was quite adept at it.
And my brother-in-law, the one who smoked with me, explained the rules... but really, we smoked enough that [in retrospect] would have been sufficient even if I held for only 2 seconds.
I know the weed was good, too, because he had 2 ounces of the same green and I smoked from the same bag, with each time getting better with about the same amount... if anything, less on the third time.

I dunno... mystery of the human body I suppose. Maybe some people have to work a little at recognizing the effects. Maybe our Cannabinoid receptors were really sleepy and did not want to wake up at first... lol

You're might be right but the kid I smoked it with said I inhaled it good, and this kid is the biggest pothead I've ever met. I sucked in for a while too, probably more than 10 seconds. I held it in for quite a while too.

But I was pretty damn drunk at the time, so maybe I just remember it totally wrong.

i dunno, i am just going off how i got really high my first time.

I hear ya. I'm going off my own experience as well, and also what I've heard from others over the years, but I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that not everyone is going to react the same to something, regardless of what that something is and how it is done, at least to a general extent. :)

No, nothing as serious as that. It's just that sometimes all of my insecurities and fears bubble up and intensify, especially if I'm smoking alone.

Oh and I didn't get high the first couple of times I smoked either. I think it was on the third try, and that was pretty unmistakable. Btw, no one told me that my heart rate would go up so I was pretty freaked out when it started pounding away, and I just sat on the couch, immobilized, watching a film in a haze. Not a particularly fond memory. :\

I also got really high my first time, off some poop stuff too. Smoked a J in a grocey store receipt.

I definitely noticed the "high" feeling changes as you smoke more and more. For me, I lost the giggles after a few times and it become more of a chill and really relaxed feeling.

I'm another one that didn't get high my first few times smoking at all. I had a few tokes, felt nothing. And you can imagine how fun it is to be the only sober person in a room full of stoned people.

In fact, the first time I actually got high was when I went and knocked on my brother's car window to ask for something while he was hotboxing himself. Ahh, memories...

My first time smoking weed did nothing for me, it really pissed me off. I wasn't inhaling properly and the guys I smoked with didn't show me how to use the carb on the pipe. Sucked too because I chipped in for nearly the entire damn thing and we only bought a gram which lasted that night. The next time we smoked up we used a bong and I got so fucking baked off that thing it was ridiculous.

I really hated that group of people though, they were just idiots when they were high. They would just sit around and laugh and giggle the entire time as I'm trying to figure out what's so funny and why they were laughing so much and I wasn't.

Anyhow that's all in the past and I have since had many great moments while stoned.

I finally managed to get a contact who can get me shrooms so I'm going to do some this weekend and catch up on some music listening.

shrooms and music = bliss (don't forget weed too!)

surprised how many people don't get high their first time.

my first toke was out of a homemade bong (fashioned from an old gas lantern). we were spending the night at a rustic old log cabin in the middle of nowhere in the colorado rockies. it was also the first night i heard DJ Shadow's album Endtroducing...

it was otherworldly :)