# 🌿 ❓ Legalise it?

**URL:** <https://www.sotonians.com/t/legalise-it/1145>\
**Category:** Reasonably serious discussion\
**Created:** [8 March 2016 16:59 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/legalise-it/1145 "2016-03-08T16:59:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbletch/32/618_2.png) [@saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/u/saintbletch)\
**Post date:** [27 July 2018 23:26 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/legalise-it/1145/71 "2018-07-27T23:26:06Z")

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Thanks for sharing that @OzSaintDave.

Wow, a powerful story - with what sounds like a relatively happy ending. You’re in good company here as many of us have confessed our own [mental health challenges](https://www.sotonians.com/t/is-depression-a-big-con/2306).

I grew up in Gosport and had my first exposure to drugs at 14. I have known lads that, well, just aren’t alive any more because for them cannabis was a gateway - ultimately to heroin. Four lads I went to school with died within about 3 months of each other. Ugly. I have mates that still smoke daily but are now incredibly paranoid and anxious. I also have mates (and I fit into this category myself) that can take or leave it and just dabble every now and then.

I guess my question to you is, were you unlucky? Was there something about your wiring that made you likely to have such a reaction?

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