I was never really averse to cannabis, but I never smoked it a lot either (or even regularly) for the simple reason that I just couldn't! Smoke I mean. I'm a lifelong non-smoker (not because of any health concerns, everyone in my family smoked and if I had wanted to so could I have done anytime and out in the open, but there was no point in doing it then, nothing counterculture or forbidden about it, shucks!), so I can't even inhale a cigarette, much less a joint/spliff without an immediate cough attack. That meant I was stuck with ingesting it via tea, but as you can imagine there are a lot less occasions to join in on that than in smoking. And also: Timewise, the delayed reaction from a cup of tea with cannabis is a lot harder to anticipate, it's much less immediate.
So that is why my drug career never really got off the ground. I would have been forced to learn how to smoke first and for that I didn't like the taste of nicotine enough. Moreover, my weekly allowance was invested to the hilt in buying records!
These days, when someone passes around a joint, I'll try to semi-inhale (as far as I get which is not very far) to be social, but it never really does anything.
My only other drug experiences were two sniffs of coke (at two different occasions) in the early to mid eighties. Other than a numbness to my gums, I felt nothing.
The only things that really give me a drug-akin high are sex and good music. I do like the taste of alcohol in heavy red wine or an occasional beer with food, but I don't like being drunk, it depresses me. So after two or three glasses I just stop. I marvel how some people can get drunk from that same amount, I don't.
I guess I'm really more the uncool guy. No wonder that rock musician career didn't work out.
