Psyber wrote:Bum Crack wrote:Psyber wrote:I've always valued health and longevity and even as a child, and in my teens was committed to maximising my life and survival, and to making sure I had a good future career and financial security. My father was unemployed from 1928 to 1936 and my older sister was born in 1928, and so I knew the history of what they went through, later, when I was growing up.
So, I smoked about 3 cigarettes all told in a puff here and a puff there over a 4 year period between age 10 and 14. I've had two puffs on a MJ cigarette in my lifetime, and once sampled Cocaine in raw form straight of a tree when overseas. Alcohol? I purloined my sister's Hock, Lime, and Lemon, when I was 10 at a beer garden family gathering, invented the Creme de Menthe milkshake at 13, and otherwise didn't drink alcohol until I was about 23.
Now I enjoy a wine (or a few) most nights, but generally limit the total to safe levels. The only time I got drunk was in about 1976, when I had been guest speaker at a medical gathering sponsored for GPs by a pharmaceutical company which was very generous with good quality product that night at Ayers House.
You chewed a Coca leaf?
Actually I ate the fruit and then tasted the stone from inside it. We'd been told the fruit was safe, but to not bite the stone while eating the fruit, but I'd thought the coke was only in the leaves. My tongue and lower face went numb immediately, and I'm told I was over-talkative for several hours...
Hook a brother up would ya
