That is the age most people start. If you make it to 18 or 21 without starting, you are already at an age where you are less susceptible to peer pressure and won't do it. I'm making some broad generalizations here, but this is mostly true.

Bless their hearts.

I smoked week and all my buddys did also when we were 13. Its actually pretty regular. Doesnt mean its good, becuase I never did see anything positive come out of it. You would be smart to stay away from it, and if you do decide to try it...actually figure out WHEN to use it, and not just smoke it and become a bum.

All the kids that age around here smoke weed. Their parents let them.

Iam 17 and I think they may want to try then they become adicted to it or there is someone they know do it and they want to do just like him/her as they took him /her as a model .I don't think that this age have stresses to that extent;D

It normal really. The first time I tried it when I was 14. Hell my 14 year old brother smokes more than I do.

People your age smoke weed. They get pregnant. They have kids. They get abortions. People your age kill. People you age are killed. The good thing in all of this, is that it's shocking to you. And by the way OZe, you're not less susceptible to peer pressure when you're 18, or 21. For a lot of kids, that's the first time they are on their own, if they come from a family where they've always gotten strong support and sense of self, they don't have that. They are in a new place and have to rely on themselves, and it's a time when people flounder. When they are considered adults by some, children by others, aren't sure what they consider themselves. They do stupid things to prove that they are mature. The do stupid things because they think, honestly and sincerely that they are mature enough to handle it. And they do stupid things because they are still young enough to think that they are invincible. The real question, why? Well isn't not just because of family life and peer pressure. Biology is against you. Your brain is against you. You are programmed to make decisions more rashly, more emotionally, and it's because your brain isn't fully developed. The advice I can give you, is that knowing that, whenever you're about to do something that has lasting consequences, try and force yourself to stop and think. Your brain might not be programmed to make you second guess and analyze things yet, but you can try to overcome that. Basically, your prefrontal cortex is under developed during your teen years. The prefrontal cortex (also called the "sober second thought", where rational decison making takes place) is the last part of the brain to mature. So where adults depend more on the more rational prefrontal cortex for decision making, teens rely more on the amygdala--the emotional center of the brain. It's one of the reasons why teens make what others consider to be stupid, flighty decisions. They are deciding based on in-the-moment emotion, without weight, or the in the back-of-your-head voice from the prefrontal cortex. When you're in love as a teen, your brain does not necessarily remind you that you've only known the other person for two days and they've done some things that you really don't like in those two days. Even if those things cause you fear, if your love outweighs your fear, or if other fears, like a fear of never being loves, outweighs your fear of the person, you'll base your decision on what you think is rational--a love like there's never been before or will be again. You'll hate everyone if he's taken from you, you can't stand to be parted... I'm not saying don't base your decisions on how you feel, you should sometimes. But the problem with teens, is the amygdala is pure emotion, and it mixes emotions together. When you don't have the prefrontal cortex to separate those emotions out and separate out the reasons for the emotions, it can become a mess. The good news is that your brain is working on it. Your prefrontal cortex will grow and prune away stuff it doesn't need, and by your mid-twenties, it should be fully developed. It depends on the person though, and men do develop later than women. It isn't just a myth that women mature faster...they really do. There's a good chart at the bottom of this article that's a good summary of the adolescent brain: (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/what-makes-teens-tick-flood-hormones-sure-also-host-structural-changes-brain-can-those-explain-behav) and here are some good articles to read: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/adolescent.html http://www.wac77.com/images/70s_img/inside_teen_brain.pdf http://vanpelt.sonoma.edu/users/p/pollack/edu420/adolescentbraindvpt.pdf Good luck with adolescence. It's really not so bad. Scarecrow or no.

I started smoking weed the first day of 8th grade. Messed around with it on and off for years. Never did anything bad to me, never made me move on to harder drugs. It is what it is.

OMG I can't beleive it I would never take anything (I don't care that my nan and that do it.) but I would never take it. I can't believe how badly this world is going down!

Well, how old ARE you 13, 14 or 15? Kids should not experiment with drugs. It wreaks havoc with the hormones and chemistry. Kids are supposed to go to school to learn something from the school.

oh my god.... They should be working in coal mines, instead of smoking weed..Be productive, move forward the capitalist war machine...