I Was 15 the first time I was allowed to go out with my friends at night. That night was also the first time I tried drugs.
I'd say about 60 percent of the kids in my high school in Montevideo (Uruguay) did drugs—mostly alcohol and marijuana, because those were the easiest to get. But it wasn't exactly peer pressure that got me into the drug scene. Of course, knowing people who were doing drugs made them easy to get. They were just there—part of my experience. But I think it was more what was going on inside of me that made me start. Partly, it was a rebellion. Partly, an escape. I thought my parents were strict—you know how it is.
And of course there was the feeling, too. Once I'd tried drugs, using them became a regular thing because I liked the way they made me feel. It was marijuana more than anything else that I used. But alcohol and cocaine, too—anything I had the money to buy, really.
