I bought my first weed from the guy who sat next to me in high school biology and he also invited me to a John Birch Society introductory meeting hosted by his parents. Out of curiosity I attended and watch a filmstrip outlining their beliefs, basically that the US government leadership was heavily infiltrated by communists in league with the Soviet Union.
This seemed preposterous on its face, but it got much weirder as they added additional conspiracy theories such as the use of fluoride in drinking water to soften minds to communist doctrine. I took home a handful of their far-right brochures and some bumper stickers and tacked them to my bedroom wall to irritate my liberal Democrat mother. I was 16 and quite the asshole at the time. In recalling this story today, I realized this was the first instance I was to see a link between drug use and conspiracy theories.
At that age I was still planning a career in medicine, because those were the plans my mother had for me. However, with the advent of weed, something was going on that I wasn't aware of at the time. I decided that I didn't want to spend the next 10 or more years in school to become a doctor. I might have been high. It came to me as an epiphany and I have never had any regrets. I was writing a lot at the time, for the school paper and an 'underground' sheet, and eventually determined to make my living somehow as a writer. Journalism seemed to be the safest career path.
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