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Highschool without drugs?

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fetfet

Apr 13, 2008
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Toronto, ON
#1
Hi.

I just started grade 9, and all my grade 10 friends tell me that it's futile to resist the onslaught of drugs, but i'm really in to the Straight Edge thing, and am trying to abstain, but my very best friend, who introduced me to straight edge, is a budding stoner. I find this very dreary, and have slightly less high hopes than i used to.

My question is, has anyone on the boards gone through high school without drugs? I want to know if it's possible.
 
#2
fetfet said:
Hi.

I just started grade 9, and all my grade 10 friends tell me that it's futile to resist the onslaught of drugs, but i'm really in to the Straight Edge thing, and am trying to abstain, but my very best friend, who introduced me to straight edge, is a budding stoner. I find this very dreary, and have slightly less high hopes than i used to.

My question is, has anyone on the boards gone through high school without drugs? I want to know if it's possible.
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It is very possible.
 
#5
I did.

In my college the general consensus was that you went out on Thursday nights to get drunk. There were drugs involved too- a lot of weed and some stronger stuff.
I just didn't do that kind of thing- I was doing almost twice the normal workload of anyone I knew and I was helping run my college classics department too and so I didn't have TIME.

Anyone who gives you the whole 'you can't resist' thing really is weak. Every language has a word for 'no'. There's more to high school/college than doing drugs/drink.
 
#9
Believe it or not, statistically most Americans have not tried drugs. Most high school graduates are virgins as well! I myself never drank, smoked or did any drugs in high school. That changed in college :) I never faced much pressure to do drugs or drink. It was always more like "come on man, join the party."

Despite what you may have heard, no one is ever going to force or coerce you into doing drugs. Sometimes a friend will peer pressure you because he himself is nervous about smoking pot, dropping acid or whatever. But it's really a personal decision what you want to do with your body. I'm not going to tell you that you must be straight edge your whole life, though you would be better off doing so for the time being - at the very least until you feel ready... which may be at 19, 25, or never.

People who start drinking and doing drugs at a younger age are more likely to have addiction problems later on. I don't have anything against pot, but the people I knew who started it at a young age are, in my opinion, worse off for it.
 
#10
I can not say I went drug free either. I tried a few things along the way, but never a heavy user. Lots of my friends never tried anything.

It take more charter to do what you want to do than to go with everyone else. Whatever you do in life the only person who has to be happy with the decisions you make is you.
 
#17
gold_member_321 said:
Peer Pressure is BS, no one can force you to do anything and if you're not comfortable doing something then don't.

It's really that simple. You will really learn who your true friends are though.
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+1

Just say no!! :)

I remember in grade 7 our class had a police officer come to our school for an hour a week for about a month. He made it seem like drugs were just gonna rain from the sky when we hit high school.
 
#18
fetfet said:
Hi.

I just started grade 9, and all my grade 10 friends tell me that it's futile to resist the onslaught of drugs, but i'm really in to the Straight Edge thing, and am trying to abstain, but my very best friend, who introduced me to straight edge, is a budding stoner. I find this very dreary, and have slightly less high hopes than i used to.

My question is, has anyone on the boards gone through high school without drugs? I want to know if it's possible.
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This is self-justification nonsense on the part of your "grade 10 friends". No one is going to force you to do drugs, even if you find yourself in a room full of stoners. A very offhand, "nah, I'm cool" is all it takes. Really.
 
#19
fetfet said:
Hi.

I just started grade 9, and all my grade 10 friends tell me that it's futile to resist the onslaught of drugs, but i'm really in to the Straight Edge thing, and am trying to abstain, but my very best friend, who introduced me to straight edge, is a budding stoner. I find this very dreary, and have slightly less high hopes than i used to.

My question is, has anyone on the boards gone through high school without drugs? I want to know if it's possible.
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It's very possible, I did it. I did get drunk a couple times, but that's about it. I did have to emphatically say no once to a friend who insisted I try something, but otherwise I never felt pressured.

I didn't realize straight edge was really still around until that thread popped up the other day. (I'm old.:atoz:) Ironically, the drunkest I ever got in my life was at a Minor Threat show. (They were incredible, BTW.) My band was one of the opening acts, and then a friend showed up with a few 40s of Magnum.:rollno:
 
#20
To be fair, if you're hanging out with a bunch of people who are taking drugs, especially full-on mindbenders like LSD or whatever, you'll be a bit of a square peg. But if you don't want to do it, don't do it. Leave them to it and hang out with them some other time when they're not smashed.

People will probably offer you drugs, but nobody's going to be offended if you don't accept them.
 

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