I only tried cannabis once.

It was a normal night at the local park with our crew until a girl from a rough area, near where we live, came down. She recognised a few of us from a festival. She was acting all hard because she had smoked a lot of cannabis that day. She was asking if we knew any dealers and we did know a few but never really spoke to them. She was determined to get some green and when she finally got 20 pounds worth, she forced us to start smoking it with her. Bearing in mind we had never done it before, it was really scary.

We all had a few drags on the “bifta” because she was pressuring us. About three people were sick and the rest just chilled out and brought loads of food like biscuits and crisps.

The girl started to get paranoid and told us her life story. She had put girls in hospitals and threatened people with knifes. Then she started on one of our crew, and she pulled out some scissors that she had used to make a “pipe”.

Our friend started to cry and couldn’t stop. We all felt sick, then the police showed up and took us all to a cell for the night. This was four months ago and I’m still grounded. This was the worst experience of my life, I will never do it again.