Originally Posted by
agent_orange
I'm not even sure if I want to say this, as in my experience, whenever I have I get immediately judged. My 15 years of not playing was down to a Heroin addiction. I slipped into it in my mid twenties and have now been clean for coming up to two years on the 31st April. It's not been easy, but my children got to an age where I couldn't hide it from them anymore. For the first 5 years I was a complete mess, a stereotypical junkie, but once my kids were born, although i couldn't/didn't stop, I got to a stage where I could keep a job and just about function kind of normally, albeit an expensive kinda normal. I made sure my kids had everything they needed, but admit they could've had a lot more. As far as my wife, well, she's an absolute angel. She knew the situation when we got together and we are still together now. We have had some properly bad times and she has put up with some s**t from me, but we are now making up for lost time.
The things I have found to keep me occupied namely Drums, Mountainbiking and Surfing have gone a long way in helping me out.
My reason for saying all of this, is that I started off smoking weed, then graduated onto harder and harder stuff. so people who say it doesn't lead on to other things or that weed does no harm are talking rubbish.
Like I say, I'm clean for just about two years, don't smoke weed and am completely teetotal now. I'm just enjoying the life that I got back, and that luckily I'm still of an age where I can enjoy it.
Anyone that reads this please don't let it change your opinion of me, I'm still an annoying, questioning, [deleted] taking englishman and that'll never change!