For those of you who are even thinking about trying drugs

I remember that movie being very talked-about back when it came out. Pretty sure I saw it too, but don't remember anything about it. There were a slew of "good kids ruined by drugs" movies and TV specials in the 70s.
 
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Drug use among the kids at my high school is incredibly widespread. Given my own history, I don't feel the sky is falling, but there are a few things about what they do that trouble me.

1. They do them all the time. Aside from all of the compelling scientific evidence that this is bad for brain development, I just don't know how you can get anywhere if you are constantly high. And for many, that's the goal. They are what I'd call "maintenance high" users. At a HS age, that's sad to me.

2. They do them at school. It's tacky, IMO. School should be a place where a lot of people are working towards a goal - graduating. Learning. Doing extra-curriculars. And they do that. But it's also become their drug use venue. And that just screams to me "I don't know how to behave contextually." (Which is a part of growing up, but I digress). It leads to them getting arrested (at school), which leads to them having extra and serious obstacles early in life.

3. They do a LOT. Pot is stronger, and the technology of imbibing (strength of drugs, variety of drugs, number of delivery systems) has grown far faster than human bodies have evolved to handle them. It can't be good.

4. Perhaps most importantly, I no longer sense that there are "local dealers." In my wayback youth, I remember people actually knowing who grew the pot they smoked. Now, it's pills and etc. Drug dealing at the HS level has gotten much more serious and the attendant accompanying crime has, too. I do not at all feel comfortable posting anything detailed online, but our community (including kids I know) have been involved with drug-related murders and attempted murders, and to me that's a bad sign for our society.
 
Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall.

My sister read that book in her teens. She still got into drugs. Fortunately, she quit decades ago.
 
Andrew Sak said:
Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall.

My sister read that book in her teens. She still got into drugs. Fortunately, she quit decades ago.
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My memory of seeing shows like this, and I remember seeing this on network television when I was a kid, is that I usually walked away wanting to try drugs


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rickenvox said:
You need to watch this entire movie right now. I can't stress enough how much you need to see this.

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Thanks for posting this for the Holiday Season! I first heard of the book when reading about famous literary hoaxes/fake memoirs. I've been meaning to watch the movie version for years, but never got around to it. I will definitely watch it.

If anyone were to ever offer me a marijuana I would say 'no siree'.
 
Danhedonia said:
Drug use among the kids at my high school is incredibly widespread. Given my own history, I don't feel the sky is falling, but there are a few things about what they do that trouble me.

1. They do them all the time. Aside from all of the compelling scientific evidence that this is bad for brain development, I just don't know how you can get anywhere if you are constantly high. And for many, that's the goal. They are what I'd call "maintenance high" users. At a HS age, that's sad to me.

2. They do them at school. It's tacky, IMO. School should be a place where a lot of people are working towards a goal - graduating. Learning. Doing extra-curriculars. And they do that. But it's also become their drug use venue. And that just screams to me "I don't know how to behave contextually." (Which is a part of growing up, but I digress). It leads to them getting arrested (at school), which leads to them having extra and serious obstacles early in life.

3. They do a LOT. Pot is stronger, and the technology of imbibing (strength of drugs, variety of drugs, number of delivery systems) has grown far faster than human bodies have evolved to handle them. It can't be good.

4. Perhaps most importantly, I no longer sense that there are "local dealers." In my wayback youth, I remember people actually knowing who grew the pot they smoked. Now, it's pills and etc. Drug dealing at the HS level has gotten much more serious and the attendant accompanying crime has, too. I do not at all feel comfortable posting anything detailed online, but our community (including kids I know) have been involved with drug-related murders and attempted murders, and to me that's a bad sign for our society.
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One benefit of working in ASN is that we really don't have an issue with it at all - sure there's one or two people in particular, given their home life, that I can see getting sucked in but apart from that, most of our kids are really coddled (which also has it's disadvantages around resillience etc...)

Flipside - the amount of kids in the main stream secondary we share a campus with who wander about ABSOLUTELY reeking of weed is shocking.

More worryingly from a social point of view in the UK at least is the sheer amount of coke doing the rounds now and it's kids not long out of high school doing it - when I was at uni it was still quite hard to get a hold of up here and I knew one or two folk who did it. Now you go out and just about every pub is rife with folk of all ages - I've seen folks in their 60s hoovering shit up in horrible grubby toilets - like it's nothing.

I've got nothign against weed at all though as you said - doing it at school is a really bad idea - but this growth in the amount of coke going around really bothers me and I worry for my neices and nephews if banging lines on a Monday night watching the football is 'normal' by time they hit their late teens.
 
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