Onset of Hal's marijuana use, introduced by Bridget Boone

pivotal · ~YYTMRCYTPC-YDPAH (2007-08)

• When: UNDATED (~age 15, "more like nearly sixteen") — i.e. ~2007-08 under the June-1992 ruling
• What: Hal narrates that, "having taken certain vows early on concerning fathers and differences" (a deliberate reaction to JOI's/JOI's-father's drinking), he abstained until age ~15-16, when Bridget Boone — in whose room the 16-and-Unders gathered before lights-out — offered him late-night bongs as a "psychodysleptic Sominex" to help him sleep through a recurring nightmare that was eroding his ranking. "The bongs worked like a charm." The ORIGIN of the central habit, framed as self-medication of a nightmare and a swerve away from his father's alcohol.