Stephanie - Interview 33
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When she was sixteen or seventeen, she would go to pubs and clubs if she could get in. She would drink more than she drinks now. She says that she could handle it better then, and wasn't worried about getting a hangover, so would drink more.
Stephanie used to smoke a lot of cannabis. She thinks most drugs shouldn’t be legalised but sets cannabis apart from the others.

Stephanie used to smoke a lot of cannabis. She thinks most drugs shouldn’t be legalised but sets cannabis apart from the others.
After stopping using cannabis Stephanie's short-term memory improved and she felt less anxious...

After stopping using cannabis Stephanie's short-term memory improved and she felt less anxious...
Stephanie has trouble remembering things about her school days.

Stephanie has trouble remembering things about her school days.
I think you know I’m finding it quite difficult [laughs] to remember which is almost maybe a sign that I was, I don’t I think, yeah I think I must have been occasionally, I can’t picture me sitting in a lesson, I can’t see me doing that, but the, I mean that, it, what’s a shame is I do have a lot of time, because a lot of my friends would say, “Remember we did this?.” And I can’t remember, I will have a, a lot of trouble remembering certain ages where I would have been smoking a lot of Weed which is quite a shame, I, there are a lot of things I can’t remember from that time so I think I probably would have been I did, I remember going to one of my exams, it wasn’t a serious exam but I do remember having a joint before I went to the exam, mostly because I kind of resented doing, because my school would make me choose subjects and it was only two subjects I wanted to do, they would make me take other subjects that I didn’t want to do so I wouldn’t be interested and I went to that, so I think I’d had a joint before that exam I didn’t really care, I’d never do that now but [laughs] yeah I do remember doing that yeah.
Stephanie decided to try cannabis out of curiosity and because it seemed safer than Class A drugs.

Stephanie decided to try cannabis out of curiosity and because it seemed safer than Class A drugs.
Stephanie saw alcohol as ‘exciting’. The first time she got drunk, she and her friends told some boys they’d just met that they had been drunk before.

Stephanie saw alcohol as ‘exciting’. The first time she got drunk, she and her friends told some boys they’d just met that they had been drunk before.
Once she stopped enjoying cannabis Stephanie gave it up without much difficulty. She says she had...

Once she stopped enjoying cannabis Stephanie gave it up without much difficulty. She says she had...
Stephanie didn’t feel at risk walking home on her own at night although she thinks that she and her friends may have been ‘lucky’.
