tshile
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I have reservations about posting this because of conclusions people may draw that aren't necessary accurate. Take it for what it's worth and draw assumptions as you please.
I haven't been in high school for at least 11 years now. The town I live in is significantly larger than it was when I went to high school. They've built a 3rd high school here and all 3 are still over crowded.
but when I was in high school I knew enough about what was going on that I could, if desired, gain access to any of the main stream drugs at the time. Marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD, mushrooms, a vast array of prescription pills, and while I don't know how easy it would have been to get I certainly knew who to talk to about PCP.
I have a hard time believing it's better now than it was then.
I ran with crowds that mingled with that stuff, for various reasons, so I knew who did what and who to talk to. That was not a problem.
You know what was a problem? Cigarettes. Unless you knew someone that stole them from their parents and resold them, or knew someone with a fake id, it was kind of hard. We had one spot in town that didn't ID, but they were over priced and their cigarettes were often stale. Eventually I started working at CVS and could just sell them to myself, and once I left there I knew enough adults or seniors that turned 18 (and eventually turned 18 myself) that it wasn't a problem.
Alcohol was also a big problem. Majority of it was stolen from our parents in the form of liquor, but that has obvious limits unless your parents are alcoholics. Fake ids that sufficiently worked for a 16 and 17 year old posing as a 21 year old just didn't fly, and we had a lot of ABC ops in the area busting people so it was pretty hard to get access to. We all found ways, but I couldn't buy a case of beer while in school.
But I could likely, on any given day, buy a bag of any of the drugs I listed... if I couldn't I could at least make arrangements to after school or the next day.
I don't know how the rest of your all's teen years went, but for the late '90s and early 2000's that's how mine were.
When I have a 15 year old I'll have no misconceptions about how easily he/she will be able to access any drugs. I know just how easy it is to get them. I also know that the difference between the people that used and didn't use wasn't because of access - it was because of a variety of characteristics about the people.
And that a whole hell of a lot of highschoolers did drugs, did them while in school and after school, did them on a regular basis, and their parents never had a clue. Lots of athletes did drugs, lots of AP students did drugs, lots of upper class white kids from rich families did drugs.
And the adults were completely ****ing clueless.
Good grades and on a sports team or doing well in AP classes? On track for easy admission to 4 year universities? Never had problems in school? Assumed you were not using drugs - which was laughable.
I remember when the captain of the girl's field hockey team, and person in top of the class on track to a full ride to a top out of state school, got called out during a routine drug dog run through the parking lot. It had hit on her car. They searched it and found nothing.
All the adults assumed it was a mistake.
She was one of the biggest smokers in the whole school and everyone knew it. The dogs hit on her car because her and her friends were smoking weed on their way to school. Everyone knew it. Everyone but the adults.
I haven't been in high school for at least 11 years now. The town I live in is significantly larger than it was when I went to high school. They've built a 3rd high school here and all 3 are still over crowded.
but when I was in high school I knew enough about what was going on that I could, if desired, gain access to any of the main stream drugs at the time. Marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD, mushrooms, a vast array of prescription pills, and while I don't know how easy it would have been to get I certainly knew who to talk to about PCP.
I have a hard time believing it's better now than it was then.
I ran with crowds that mingled with that stuff, for various reasons, so I knew who did what and who to talk to. That was not a problem.
You know what was a problem? Cigarettes. Unless you knew someone that stole them from their parents and resold them, or knew someone with a fake id, it was kind of hard. We had one spot in town that didn't ID, but they were over priced and their cigarettes were often stale. Eventually I started working at CVS and could just sell them to myself, and once I left there I knew enough adults or seniors that turned 18 (and eventually turned 18 myself) that it wasn't a problem.
Alcohol was also a big problem. Majority of it was stolen from our parents in the form of liquor, but that has obvious limits unless your parents are alcoholics. Fake ids that sufficiently worked for a 16 and 17 year old posing as a 21 year old just didn't fly, and we had a lot of ABC ops in the area busting people so it was pretty hard to get access to. We all found ways, but I couldn't buy a case of beer while in school.
But I could likely, on any given day, buy a bag of any of the drugs I listed... if I couldn't I could at least make arrangements to after school or the next day.
I don't know how the rest of your all's teen years went, but for the late '90s and early 2000's that's how mine were.
When I have a 15 year old I'll have no misconceptions about how easily he/she will be able to access any drugs. I know just how easy it is to get them. I also know that the difference between the people that used and didn't use wasn't because of access - it was because of a variety of characteristics about the people.
And that a whole hell of a lot of highschoolers did drugs, did them while in school and after school, did them on a regular basis, and their parents never had a clue. Lots of athletes did drugs, lots of AP students did drugs, lots of upper class white kids from rich families did drugs.
And the adults were completely ****ing clueless.
Good grades and on a sports team or doing well in AP classes? On track for easy admission to 4 year universities? Never had problems in school? Assumed you were not using drugs - which was laughable.
I remember when the captain of the girl's field hockey team, and person in top of the class on track to a full ride to a top out of state school, got called out during a routine drug dog run through the parking lot. It had hit on her car. They searched it and found nothing.
All the adults assumed it was a mistake.
She was one of the biggest smokers in the whole school and everyone knew it. The dogs hit on her car because her and her friends were smoking weed on their way to school. Everyone knew it. Everyone but the adults.
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