I started smoking weed when I was 19. I was introduced to my first joint when I got a job selling vacuum cleaners and nearly all the other sales people there smoked weed. I smoked a couple times there and really enjoyed it. Then a year later I got a construction job in Phoenix and met my best friend there. He and another guy who would also be a good friend got me hooked on smoking weed daily.
I smoked weed daily for 10-12 years with short times of not smoking mostly due to lack of having anything to smoke or money to buy weed. It never had any bas effect on my life I had a good jobs I never committed any crimes. I lived a normal life enhanced my my love of Marijuana.
I was in my late 20's when Cocaine was introduced into our lives by a new friend and my buddies new girlfriend. I did coke for about 6 months. It seemed good at first and I did fine but after a couple of months it really began to affect me negatively. I was always shy around strangers but really open and outgoing with friends. Coke changed that. I developed social anxiety and became introverted.
Even after realizing I hated doing cocaine and quitting the stuff I continued to have difficulties with anxiety. It was really bad those first few years, I could barely function in public because I would get bad panic attacks just by going into a store.
I have had to claw myself out of that state. I still struggle with it some but not nearly as bad as those days. Fortunately these days it is mild. I will always advocate smoking weed because it never affected me badly but I hate cocaine and hard drugs and have first hand experienced how they can really mess you up.
