I remember the first time I smoked pot. I was a year out of high school and I was already drunk off Absinthe I had my friend smuggle back from Germany for me. I was relatively new to drinking at this point, but i was really hitting my stride in the world of alcohol. Anyway, I was drinking Absinthe at a friends house party and had to make my way to a friends band practice. As we were hanging around my friend John suggested we go smoke weed in his car.

Now up until this point I had been against smoking weed. I drank but I didn’t smoke. I couldn’t really tell you what my reasons were for thinking this way but I just did. My friends smoked, but I didn’t. In the recent years since me and my friends had started drinking my best friend Daniel would sometimes claim he accidentally smoked weed at parties. I didn’t really understand how that would be possible, but with a belly full of Absinthe i soon found out.

So I get led into my fried John’s car and we begin spark up a doobie. (haha doobie). I inhaled, I don’t really remember If I actually got high or just thought I did. But I was having a good time none the less. I went through all the phases, laughter, euphoria, paranoia, all that. But from that point on I was a weed smoker, it felt cool. At parties when people would step outside to smoke a bowl I was invited and felt like I was apart of the cool kids. Maybe we were the uncool kids, I dunno, but I felt cool. I loved it.

Some of the best times with my friends I’ve ever had we were just cruising around on the country back roads getting high, listening to music, and just sharing how we felt and what we were thinking. It brought me and my friends closer, we were uninhibited. It was easier to talk about things we probably never would have talked about when were high. Sometimes it wasn’t anything deep or personal, sometimes it just gave an excused to act weird and be stupid around one another and be ok with doing so. Other times it got deep and philosophical, or personal and meaningful. But it gave us an outlet to express ourselves to one another. It also was a wicked awesome hangover cure, since back then we were getting drunk like it was our fucking jobs. But more on that later.