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Please Say No To Drugs!
I beg every teenager that comes to this website, to say "no" to drugs. You have more influence on your friends and peers than you could imagine. It all starts with the thought that either it's cool to do drugs or you can just do it once without it affecting you. Drugs have a terribly strong hold on those who fall to them. There are so many teens who o.d. every year. They didn't think that doing a small ammount of drugs would ruin their lives, but you can see what happens to them all. That fate could be our friends'. We could save their lives if we would just take a stand! Be a different teen! Make a difference in your friends lives!
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Haha drugs are only bad if you're doing the wrong ones, with the wrong people, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. There are plenty of times it's perfectly fine, even better than, say legal drugs like Oxycontin, or even alcohol.
When you say don't do drugs, you should specify which ones, and why, and back it with scientific knowledge. Because there are reasons to not take drugs, and reasons to take them.... It's all very personal.
ya people are going to mess up in one way or another just be a leader and not a follower.Because when you have kids and they find out about they are going to think (well mom and dad did why can't i. they will think.) so don't follow people let people follow you be the leader
I have this weird ambivalence towards this subject. In a way, I don't even care anymore.
Isn't that sad?
I suppose it has to do with the people I hang out with, the authors I read, the things I've witnessed, the heart I've put into someone's recovery and subsequent relapse.
I feel terrible about my lack of interest, which is probably why I took the time to comment, but...
"Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard anything less with a special kind of horror" ~ William S. Burroughs
You have no idea how different the world would be if no one ever smoked pot, opium, drank cocaine or dropped acid and blew thier mind with shrooms do you? At least no more then our free media and libreal education declares.
And I hate to break it too you, but we are a druggie society. "Pharmaceutical companies will soon rule the world if we keep letting them believe we are a happy, functional society so long as all the women are on Prozac, all children on Ritalin, and all men on Viagra." ~Terri Guillemets
Which would you like? A world in which people are doped up and made to work on pills that they think they need or one in which those that can handle substnace can choose for themselves? I'm not going to push a view -though its not hard to see where my beliefs lie- other then ignorance is remarkably unattrative. Dont regretitate whats been told to you, educate yourself and form your own opinion.
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