Started smoking cigarettes in the fall of '96, followed afterwards by smoking pot, next shed loads of magic mushrooms, followed over time by quite a quantity of Esctasy pills, lots of LSD, a fair amount of coke, speed and quite a bit else besides.
The point is, you never do anything unless you're in the right frame of mind for it and you feel at ease with the company you have. Can understand how it might send you rather insane, but that was half the 'fun' of facing your own demons and telling them, those emotions, what they could do to go screw themselves.
A path I certainly wouldn't reccommend to everyone, depends on the individuals disposition I guess.
I've never taken anti-depressants in my life, cannabis I still take in every day, found it to be the only thing that's worked for me, relaxes my body down just nicely, don't get any hangover feelings the next morning, nor any feelings of paranoia, but that's just me.
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