Marijuana is being downgraded so maybe it's getting there. Legal or not, I don't think it makes much of a difference on kids wanting to take it.
I think drugs are dumb, as well, but sometimes there's a choice between bashing my head through a wall or popping some pills or taking a drink. I've never been drunk, I don't intend to, but I have smoked cigarettes and I did for a while. Gave that up after I couldn't run the mile. I'm a black belt in Taekwondo, and still interested in other martial arts. I'm not going to let a 30 minute session screw up the rest of my life. To be honest, everytime I'm feeling down, I just pop a CD into my XBOX/CD player and listen to music. Music calms me down more than any drug could, and I know this now. Never going to touch drugs again. That was a mistake I regret. I feel at shame for saying this now...but it's a good thing. :wth:
I actually want to try it. But... I get blood and urination tests done all the time.. So... you know....
One of my old friends was a perfectly happy girl until one day when her father left. This caused her mtoher to freak out and start treating her like crap. This, in turn, made my friend turn to drugs to relieve her pain. This obviously was not the wisest choice but she was desperate. She let drugs take over her life, the combination of the drugs and the s##T at home that she had to deal with made her crazy. She started running away from home. When she was on the street, she paid for drugs by having sex with people. She was 14. She would eventually come back home, only to run away again a few days later. She then tried to commit suicide, but luckily my other friend found her in time. She was laying on the bathroom floor with her wrists cut . Drugs may provide an escape from reality, but they only add to the pain and suffering of someone who is already having a rough life. That's why I despise drugs so much...
This is just a thought guys. I don't do drugs myself but many of my friends do and I think that for some people who 'experiment' and do it just with their friends sometimes in the end become successful people when they mature. The big problem is when people use it to relieve stress...thats when major addiction happens and peoples lives are ####ed up... But drugs are a lot different than alcohol, I must say...
I watched one of my friends go down as a result of drugs in just a couple years. We became friends in 7th grade. Towards the end of 8th grade, he started getting into drugs. In the summer before 9th grade, we went to a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert and when they search everyone before letting us in, they found pipes on him (i had no idea he had them) and he told he he brought the pipes but no weed, he was going to buy the weed at the concert. I was hoping that since security made him throw away the couple pipes he had, he might not have money to buy more pipes and stuff and would quit doing drugs, but apparentley, he bought more. In 9th grade, his grades dropped down, he was failing most of his classes, and coming to school stoned often. Then that was it. When 10th grade started, our other friends and I started ignoring him and he would walk around stoned all the time, I don't think he even realized he didn't have any more friends. And sometime toward the end of 10th grade, I never saw him again. I thought he dropped out of school, but rumors are going around (and it wouldn't suprise me if they're true) that he got expelled from school for being caught smoking crack in the bathroom. It's sad really. When I first met him, he wasn't extremley smart, but he was getting Bs and Cs and could do something with his life. But now, he's nothing. And when I was at his house or something, I had many chances to try out drugs but never did and I don't regret not experimenting one bit.
I know tons of kids like that. Kids smart enough to have potential to do anything, they absolutely blow me out of proportion grade-wise. At the same time, the kids would be very successful in their sports careers and others, but then their addictions would lead them downhill and eventually to failure. I noticed that and realized that I myself didn't want to end up that way. It's a FUBAR road to go down, and I'd rather watch it than live it. My friend has smoked weed since 7th grade, and now he doesn't even remember his first name, a man I know is mentally retarded for smoking weed, there's another who is in a 5-month rehab. center, and all of these people are examples to me why drugs screw you up. I'm glad I stopped when I did, because I was popping pills, I never smoked weed or anything other than cigarettes. Beer...I don't really need, but even at a party I'd be skeptical about drinking around my best friends. (I've never been to a party with drinking, or any more than 5 people, just an example).
Oh yeah, I forgot the most depressing part of my story: who got my ex-friend involved in drugs..... His older brother was really smart, had a full ride to college from a scholarship. All 4 years paid for, he or his parents didn't have to pay a penny of the tuition. I'm pretty sure he even graduated high school early to go straight to college, that's how smart he was. But, he got involved with drugs. He came home during the summer after his first year and never went back, he just dropped out completley. So he and his younger brother (my friend) would just stay home all day and get high. Sad, ain't it?
Half the kids I've grown up with in Elementary school that were my friends seem to have dropped out, because I don't see them anymore. I suppose they could've moved, but they were always "druggies" so I guess the worst, as always. :wth:
I seriously hope you're joking. [/b][/quote] ROTFL. Nicotene is DEFINITELY a drug. So is alchohol, in a way. lmfao... cigarettes aren't a drug... ROTFL.
ROTFL. Nicotene is DEFINITELY a drug. So is alchohol, in a way. lmfao... cigarettes aren't a drug... ROTFL. [/b][/quote] LOL calm down Will, you're scaring me! :wth: But that was pretty funny.
there is no "in a way" about it, Will. Alchohol is a drug, no doubt about it. Alchoholism was recently made an official disease for christ sakes. Here's a question for some of you: Is anyone here a drug addict? Cigarettes, Drugs, Alchohol, anything. my answer: I am. I'm addicted to cigarettes, and I was once addicted to PCP, believe it or not.