I didn’t, many many many people have though

I was a fullblown alcoholic and habitual stoner by the time i was 16. Started at 14. Im now 2 years sober at 29 and really mourning the lost time.

The first time I quit smoking pot was in the fifth grade.

I started smoking dope again in high school. I didn’t drink alcohol much in high school mostly because I didn’t like the taste, but I had did plenty of drinking.

I was a total pothead in high school. I was self medicating because of my crazy ass home life.

In Germany (if your parents agree) its allowed to drink beer and wine from the age of 14. By 16 you are allowed to buy beer and wine by yourself. By 18 you can buy anything.

… So yeah, the first time i got shitfaced i was 13 :|

Ive tasted wine and beer and had cider and champagne for toasts, didn’t drink more than a few sips.

Combining it all I don’t think I added up to a whole glass in less than a year, I see no problem in trying stuff and doing toasts, but I’ve also haven’t had contact with heavy alcoholics so it’s easy for me to say something like that, if I’ve had experience with alcoholics in my family I’d probably not even want to try.

I got drunk when I was 5 does that count?

I’ve had a couple of parent-sanctioned sips of beer once every few years as a teenager, but never got drunk nor smoked any weed for the first time until age 20.

I think I got drunk for the first time at the age of 13, partied hard til I was 19, then “took a break” from it and went hard again in my early army days (2015/16). I haven’t had any alcohol in 8ish years or something like that (for more than just religious reasons).

Some people, like me, just got drunk to be in a “better” position to make some indecent proposals to drunk girls in pubs/clubs, and once you’re out of that cycle (in my case, I met my now wife) it loses any utility. Other people really enjoy the effects of booze, and that’s it. The first group will more easily leave it in the past, for obvious reasons.

I’m 25 and have yet to have a proper drink. Most people in my country started illegally drinking at 13-15 years old while out clubbing, but I just hate alcohol so much! I never understood the hype around it. I don’t even like it when there are a couple of teaspoons in my sorbet. I’ll have a tropical mocktail or soda, thank you.

In the UK it’s quite common for kids at some 15/16 to have house parties with alcohol (our drinking age is 18). At least this was common when I was that age 16 years ago

I waited until college. I tried weed and alcohol in my freshmen year, so 18-ish for me.

I didn’t drink until I was 23. I don’t think I missed out on much.

That said…I drink a lot now, so maybe I’m making up for it? lol, jk.

Drink if you want, don’t if you don’t. It’s poison, it’s unhealthy.

Tasted maybe a handful of times before 18 including being offered a shot of vodka once. I barely drink even now (23 y.o), maybe 1 unit every 2 or 3 months.

Never drank illegally, waited until my 21st birthday

I started drinking when I was 16 and smoking joints since I was 14, finally stopped drinking and smoking late last year at 24. Been sober since October. Although I really want to get back to smoking for my chronic depression but such things are impossible on SSRIs