My
name is Leah and I smoke pot about twice a week, I would
actually smoke it more if it weren't so expensive where
I live, I live in Boston, not in the 'burbs'. I like to
smoke with my friends, we are all honor students and while
we are stoned we are able to reach a different level --
if you will -- or plateau that we don't seem to get to straight.
We discuss politics and our homework while stoned, we never
get into a car, we use the subway system here anyway (the
T). This is a huge college town and I have seen students
walking down the street while smoking weed, I think the
cops here are too busy with more important matters.
I
also play the piano and write music. Some of the best music
I have written I have done while high. My parents know I
smoke, I think they know, they smoked plenty when they were
my age, but I know they don't do it now. They have said
to me if I want to smoke weed, okay, but not in their house
and if I get busted... then that's my problem, not theirs.
They said they would rather I get high than drink and be
a stupid drunk or smoke cigarettes. That is my experience,
I will be a senior in high school next year, I attend a
private school and I think kids here smoke as much as any
where else, but there isn't a lot of 'hard' drugs here,
no meth or crack, although if you want it you can always
find someone, that's just the way of the world. Thanks.
- Leah -
Hi,
my name's Barry and I come from England. Not so long ago
(about a year) I changed schools, from a private school
to a boarding school. I changed friends, and with this change
of friends came a change of scene. I had reverted from my
days in the pub with my mates, to listening to drum and
bass, smoking pot and raving. This is where I had my first
experience of taking E. It was a bit heavy to begin with
(because of the rave atmosphere) but after I came Ò up it
was amazing, I found that I loved the music more, and my
relationship with my new friends grew a whole lot better,
it even helped me to sort out one or two mental problems!
But with the good comes the bad. The come down can be awful
but it does get better after a few times of taking Ecstasy.
The come down does give feelings of depression and awkwardness
but you get used to it, and it does get better. I do recommend
anyone to try it as it is good fun, but don't get pressured
into it, do it of your own accord and you'll have a better
time on it. Also ensure that you have plenty of friends
with you that are doing it and some that aren't. Be careful
don't get heavily mottled pills or pills with no pictures
on, and be safe!!!!! -BAZZA-
My
name is Amanda , I’m 16 years old and I live in Canada.
When I was 15 I was an honors students that participated
in my school fully. I seemed like one of the kids that had
everything going for me . Drugs never seemed to had crossed
my mind so I really wasn't against them or for them in anyway.
Well one night I was with some friends and that was the
first night I had ever been around chemical drugs . My friends
were doing Crystal Meth. I knew that things like cocaine,
crack, heroin and ecstasy were extremely bad for you ,but
I didn't know anything about Crystal. So I decided to give
it a try, everyone else seemed to like it a lot.
My
life began to spin out of control in a downward spiral soon
I was doing up to an eight ball (3 and a half grams), my
mom didn't understand what was happening to me ( I lost
30 pound in less than 3 weeks) and I looked like hell. I
didn't think that she was trying to help ,so I moved away
from home. Then I decided that I didn't like school anymore
because I wasn't with my other meth-head friends all the
time. Everything got so out of control so quickly, and that
is always how it happens with meth.
I
saw other peoples lives turn from everything ot nothing
because of Crystal meth ! This made me step back and look
at what I was doing to myself. I was 15, not living at home,
not in school and I had no job. My health was quickly deteriorating
and everything felt as if it was a chore. I was going no
where with my life. I decided one day that I was going to
quit. It wasn't just quitting the drug , it was quitting
the whole life that comes with it ,the people and the best
friends you thought you had made. I count myself as one
of the lucky ones became I had no physically withdrawals
like a lot of people have. It was hard but it was so worth
it. I've been clean of of Jib for almost 10 months and I
have never had the temptation to do it again. I hear of
the “epidemic” that is happening in the USA (Spokane
area) and my heart truly goes out to those who are involved!
Please get help if you have a meth problem....it will save
your life! - Amanda, Alberta Canada -
I
decided to go to my friend’s house to smoke some marijuana
I’d been saving up, and when I got there we smoked
quite a bit, and behind his house past the fence, they were
working on the road, and we wanted to make it more 'trippy'
by errmm.. 'borrowing' some of these the construction lights,
(they turn on when it's dark and flash every second), so
me and one of my friends (there were 3 of us, the person
who lived in the house stayed there) and we walked over,
he ran out to the street, grabbed it, and we were going
to walk to the fence to his back yard and throw it over
the fence, and just as we were almost there, *honk* a construction
guy in a truck is at the road, my friend takes off jumping
over the fence, and I was a little too stupid at the moment
to realize I needed to run, and I finally decided to run
once I saw him get out, I am a very bad fence climber though,
so I did not make it in time and I just decided to walk
away, he said something to me, but I couldn't understand,
when I got back to the house....I hate to say it but I thought
it was pretty funny. - From 'D', USA
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