This is a page i wrote for people that like long stories, hehe. OK, it all started like this. The time is a few years ago, i think i was seventeen at the time. People around me, and me too were getting interested in punkrock and punk (only the music, the ideology came later), after a few years as metalheads. We started going to this cool bar, we met a lot of new people and one day, there was the time when someone came up to me and said: hey, i'm going to Holland, would you like me to bring you some stuff? Not knowing any better and willing to try something new, i got ripped off a lot of money for not all that much weed. It wasn't all that great, because the guy that sold it to me didn't know how to roll a joint himself, but there was of course the thrill of doing something illegal. That was my first smoke of many to come.
After that, we started smoking more and more and we went to get it ourselves in Maastricht. We had gotten familiar with the stuff and we knew how to handle it, unlike some other guys that wanted to be tough guys and ended up puking in the school hallways. I am now in college and things still haven't gotten more quiet. I no longer live at home, so now i can smoke pot at my room, which is a lot more fun and a lot more relaxed than looking for some dark alley to avoid cops.
If you read this and you haven't smoked weed yourself, i can tell you this: many stories are told about weed and not many of them are correct. People say it's an addiction, it causes cancer, it makes you aggressive... None of this is true. The truth is cannabis is not a socially accepted drug and people, out of ignorance or fear or whatever like to keep things the way they are, even if that is irrational or just plain wrong. So they make up stories about it, about addicts, about criminals. Nothing is less true. It is Not an addiction, it does Not cause aggression, it is almost none of the things it is said to be. On the contrary, smoking weed causes you to slip into a quiet, peaceful state of mind. It is no greater threat to your health then when smoking a couple of cigarettes. It does not cause addiction in a physical way, i have even noticed that when people smoke a lot for some time, they'll need less and less weed to reach the same state of mind. Of course, for all of this there is the golden rule: enjoy, but avoid overkill. Don't start smoking ten joints a day, make sure you never need more then is healthy.
Of course, everything i wrote on this page is out of my own experience and is in no way representative for other people's opinions or feelings concerning the subject.