Steve Ridenour
“I started dealing in the marijuana business convinced that it was to support my family. The devil really had me fooled. My addiction got worse. My consulting business slowed down, and I began selling marijuana on a full time basis.”
Terry Huneke (1)
“Our next door neighbor's teenaged children introduced us to drugs...marijuana basically, mainly. Over the next three years we were smoking pot on a regular basis. My wife didn't do it as much as I did because she liked alcohol better. She became a blackout alcoholic. I was doing drugs (pot) all the time.”
Sharon Niese (1)
“My husband and children thought I had completely lost my mind. They watched and saw that I no longer drank any alcohol, no longer smoked pot, and no longer cursed.”
Joe Robison (1)
“I became very rebellious against family AND God. So I started doing drugs other than pot, which I had already been smoking since age ten.”
Bryan Rogillio
“I got to a point in my life where I just didn’t see anything else to live for. Was getting bored of smoking marijuana everyday… Smoking weed all the time made me really lazy.”
Andre’ Wilson
“I loved smoking marijuana and getting high… I got up and went to find a fellow that I was to buy a large bag of Marijuana from. ‘I want to talk to you about that pot,’ he interrupted me and said ‘You don't need that stuff; what you need is Jesus.’”
Chris Okubo
“I used illegal drugs, cannabis among many others from the age of 13. I was an unhappy teenager and all through my life have tried to fill the emptiness in my heart with drugs, alcohol and unhealthy relationships.”
Stan Borley
“I kept my drinking to weekends and stayed out of trouble for a couple years until I started experimenting with marijuana. As my drinking and drugging increased what little moral integrity I had left and my fear of the law decreased.”
Dennis Minner
“I decided to smoke a joint for the first time… My mind was totally tripping and I could not grasp anything in reality. This then caused me to have my first ever panic attack. I couldn’t breath and thought I was dying.”
Jody Hall
“He was introduced to drugs, sex and abuse at an early age. Jody began smoking marijuana at age seven. He became a father at 16 and was addicted to crack cocaine by the time he was 17 years old.”
Mary R
“I finally gave in and tried pot in September 2001. Smoked it for three months...if I wasn't high, I didn't want to be alive...until I slept with someone I hated.”
Susan Stafford
“I wanted to be accepted in their group, so I shadowed whatever they did. My grades started to fail in high school. I went from an above average student to D's and F's. My friends taught me how to roll a joint of marijuana and sniff cocaine.”
Dusty Donnay
“I was in a bad way, and getting worse. But the army straitened me out. Except for all that great hash, and killer beer, and pretty gals in Wurzburg. I was a good soldier, and an even better partier.”
Pete McMaster
“I became a total wreck! I even wondered if I was going mad and whether others suffer like this. I just didn't know what was happening. Even so, I continued my drinking and smoking of marijuana.”
Brenda Helzer
“I began smoking alot of marijuana and drinking excessively. I also abused prescription drugs. My husband was abusive and also an alcoholic.”