At 10, I started on smoking tea - didnt really get to much from that apart from ill. Then I tried dried out nettles. Crap. In the same year we did banana skins, then refined the process to just the stringy bits. This was supposedly where the real buzz was. Effects - nothing but a headache and feeling sick. At 14 I tried fags - ace. Dizzy every time, hyper-ventilation - rapid smoking led to spinning out and falling over. Then, Tipp-Ex thinner, discrete and cheap. A short dab on your jumper sleeve, a sniff, and any lesson was lost to two minutes of whirling and slumping.
Such experimentation stopped the second we looked old enough to buy bottles of Woodpecker Cider. We tied up our memories in a spotted hanky, looked into the sunset of our youths, and zig-zagged crazily into adulthood.