You sound a bit like me! I had my first LD at age 9 or 10 (happened without me knowing what it was), then it's been happening sporadically throughout the years until I had some kind of breakthrough a few months ago. I don't know if there's a time when you're ready, but maybe lucid dreaming has been subconsciously on your mind all these years and your mind has been working on it without you knowing? Just a thought.

About the drugs: if you smoke a lot of weed it kinda messes with dream recall, for most people at least. I don't get this side effect that much though but try to take a pause and see what happens to the vividness in your dreams. As far as psychedelics go you really shouldn't be messing with them more than once a month (if you want to keep both feet on the ground, lol), if that, and I don't see how that would affect your lucid ability. This year has been a big weed/psychedelics year for me and it's only now that I've started seeing some real changes in my lucid development. I'm NOT saying that you should use drugs to become more lucid though (my success is probably due to other causes), it goes without saying that drugs mess with your ability to focus on what you want to attain. I haven't smoked for about a week now and I find that a pause, coupled with healthy sleeping habits really does wonders.

Sorry, didn't mean to write a novel really, haha. I hope you find some of it helpful at least. PM me if you want