PUFF THE MAGIC DRAG ON –
April 27, 2025 – It was fun in the beginning. As a high school student in San Diego, Zach would get high with his friends at an abandoned construction site next to his school. Afterward, they’d go out for Mexican food or hit the beach. Zach, now 31 and living in San Francisco, noticed that he was smoking more than his friends and couldn’t put down the weed once he’d started.
A straight-A student in high school, Zach couldn’t stop smoking for long enough to study in college and ended up withdrawing for a quarter. Things only got worse from there.
He was smoking vapes that were 94% THC, all day, every day, he said. He couldn’t keep food down and was vomiting every morning when he woke up. He took hot showers throughout the day because he was always cold.
