When I first started smoking weed, my world turned upside down. It
really opened my eyes on a lot of things. Things I had never given much
thought before. I was always told that drugs are bad and dangerous.
You could easily get addicted to them, and they would ruin your life.
It never occured to me that there could be positive sides as well.
So when Mary Jane crossed my path for the first time, I was a little
bit scared. I only inhaled some second hand smoke, and it didn't do
anything. But man I liked the way it smelled! I read about weed on the
internet, and it suddenly became very interesting. Got to get you into
into my life :-)
Back then I didn't know a lot of potheads, and I couldn't talk my friends
into smoking pot at that time.Maybe they were scared. So I decided to
try it on my own. I went to a coffeeshop and bought myself 3 pre-rolled
joints.
Having never smoked before, I almost died
while trying to keep the smoke into my lungs or even just inhaling it. I
hated the taste, but I had to keep on smoking in order for the effects
to set in. I smoked about half a joint (a prerolled one bought in a
coffeeshop - back then I wasn't able to roll my own joints) and lay down
after smoking, impatient for the buzz. I turned on the television and
waited. Nothing happened. Absolutely nothing. It sucked big time.
The next time, about a week later, I smoked another joint (I had thrown
the rest of the first one away - stupid me). And again I lay down and
put on the tv. I zapped to MTV and watched the videos. This time the pot
did work. After a few minutes I felt the first effects set in. It was so
great, I really didn't know what was happening to me. My body felt heavy
and relaxed, it was amazing. While looking at the videos on MTV I made
up incredible stories about the videos and bands and stuff. I made the
most bizarre connections, and everything seemed so obvious. I really
thought I could understand life. I had a great time until I started to
feel like trowing up. I stood up very calmly, walked into the bathroom
and puked. I threw up and really felt very sick for a moment. Needless
to say I didn't like this part too much. But after throwing everything
up I felt quite good again, and I walked into the living room.
I sat
down, still baked, and saw a vase standing on the table. I looked in it
and saw, to my own surprise, a man in the vase. I think it was just a
reflection of something in the room, but to me it looked like a real
man. The man was walking, just walking, and I looked at him in trance.
Again I started making up stories - my imagination was incredible. Too
bad I didn't write this all down. I wasn't able to stop my thoughts.
They were racing like mad through my head. It wasn't unpleasant at all.
Suddenly, the man was gone, I was just looking at a normal vase. Then I
got out and went to town. At that moment, I was starting to come down
again, but still, travelling by train was amazing. My fantasy had no
limits. It really ruled. Since then, Mary Jane has become a very dear friend
of mine ;-))
I couldn't understand why something that great could be illegal. When
I discovered the ugly truth, I decided not to accept it, but to try
to do something about it. I started withspreading the truth on cannabis
by making a website about the holy grass, called the Wonderful World
of Weed. That was around 1995.
IIt was my first website so it started reall simple. But as my webdesigning
skills developed, it evolved and kept growing. I started to attract
more and more visitors, and the positive feedback they gave me kept
me going.
Now, years later, the site has grown to hundreds of pages. It currently gets about 7-800 visitors each day. I hope the site will keep continuing
to grow, and reach more people, and actually make a difference!
