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What was your first taste of cannabis like? Did you share someone's hash? Or was it a weed joint? A vape, perhaps, or a dab? Medical or recreational? Did you even know the strain? All I knew was that joint was supposed to be "good shit". Yet the first time I smoked it, it did nothing! One friend got so paranoid she could never touch the stuff again (that's what she said but she was hoping for a career as a Barrister). Others went straight to heaven and never looked back. I moved in the next day :) ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeCNp7oDqeyXrXLBK9FBCjH4pxiH8q3NrbZDmRZ4uir2y/image.png)
************* I would love to read a few "first time I smoked" posts. Why not post your First Time Cannabis Experience and advertise it in @transientflowers cannabis curation group in Discord? If you do I will upvote it. Check the latest details here: https://steemit.com/cannabis/@transientflowers/transientflowers-cannabis-curation-project-update-1-we-have-a-team *************** Cannabis turned Chris Bennett's life upside down. After his first smoke Chris devoted his life to the sacred herb, having experienced a powerful realisation that it was The Tree of Life. He says: *"Around 1990 I had this really powerful religious experience about cannabis being the Tree of Life and I had to decide whether I'd gone crazy for a moment, or whether there was anything to it. And I said, well if there is something to it then someone somewhere will know about this stuff about cannabis and religion and there will be other people talking about it. And I started collecting information over years and years and I started compiling this stuff about cannabis and religion. 25 years after that experience I have to tell you, I believe more in that experience now than when I had it."* ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTNiGbH4mJARYdH6mT9vir8epdSxitua6vuHf4gMMAAFs/image.png) Tree image created by Kjpargeter - Freepik.com Researcher and activist, the late Ray Christl, experienced a similar "epiphany". He says: *I had a spiritual epiphany on my first experience with cannabis. I had an auditory hallucination - a voice spoke to me and said Ray, there is a God of Love, and love is vibrating every molecule in the Universe. So that was my epiphany with cannabis and I've been searching about cannabis and religion my whole life.* Chris and Ray mention these life-changing experiences in this video: Was your life changed like this? Or were you carted off paranoid in an ambulance? Don't forget to post about your first time, too and maybe earn a few upvotes..... Please consider following me if you are a weed person. I'm collecting weed-friendly followers to share upvotes and comments so will follow you back :) Missis Hippy

Cannabis and Mystical Experience - First Times