Well I guess I would have to say it's a little bit of both when I was a kid like in elementary school grade 3-6 we all did inhalants, then it went on to grade 6 was my first drink given to me by my dad it was a B52 then I tried E at grade 7...and cigs at that grade to I never took into doing that, the cigs! Then one day in grade 8 my friends asked if my dad would be our boot. Then that's when the partying started...from 13-31 I drank! But in my early 20s I drank every dollar I made except my rent was direct deposited right to the landlord...thank goodness! I made a substantial amount of money that I wasted on booze! Then I got a second job and that went into my banking account and never touched it would go to the bank and withdraw my money for the 2 weeks buy food and supplies!

Tried my first bong hoot of Mary Jane at 20...then shrooms around that same time bad experience never touching that stuff again.

Some gave me laced pot with speed I tell ya never doing that again.

I must of had a choice in the matter or why else would I have done it? But maybe on the other hand to be in the in crowd and my dad making me start my drinking early in life that maybe I wouldn't have so many health problems now!