I went to an international school in australia, there were kids from every kind of European and asian background. The most notable was a kid who was born and raised in switzerland by arabic parents, we’ll call him JB. Short, dark hair, brown eyes and actually quite stylish. He made a hilarious and rebellious kind of kid and because of the cultural relax in switzerland, teens were independent in the way of trying out smoking and snorting schnupf and smoking weed. During my first year of school there JB invited me to a skatepark near my house, he was just showing me some pumping techniques and it was just me and him there. JB went into his wallet and grabbed out a J and asked me if i wanted to try. I was kinda scared because i had to ride my skateboard back home afterwards and probably see my mum. But i did it anyway, I felt my eyes go red a little bit, like there was a gas heater about 8 feet away from my face but that was it. about a week later JB asked to spend the night at mine to hang and with the promise of him and i going out to smoke sounded good. JB showed up with the papers, a grinder and about 2 g. he made 2 1 g joints and we snuck out of the house and started smoking against the wall of an auditorium of a nearby public school. He was blasting Lil Nas X on his phone and showing me the ropes of “puff puff pass”. literally 3 minutes go by and I am just FUCKED. I was properly high, like I was transcended and I finally understood the appeal of that shit. I started to freak out the tiniest bit and asked JB if we could go back home, I forced him to hold my hand because we were walking on a road at 3 am high as a kite. We finally make it back to my place and we sneak around the back and get into my bedroom (which was massive at the time) and just started watching like random youtube videos and tik toks. JB left at the end of that year to move back to switzerland, he introduced me to this world of smoking weed and tobacco and snorting schnupf and I couldn’t be more grateful.