I turn 25 in 6 weeks and I have never tried pot. None of my friends have ever tried pot. A few of them are smokers, a couple drink more than a little, but no one has ever ventured into the land of illegal drugs. My 18 year old brother does it (and I will grant you his friends are quite a bit different than mine) but other than that I know no one who uses it. If I decided tomorrow I wanted to try it I would have no idea where to get it except to ask my brother who his supplier is and where I can contact him or her. To say that it is a major part of my generation is probably true much the way it was true in the 80’s and true in the 60’s and so on and so forth, but it is hardly all encompassing of people my age.
I find these discussions most interesting because I am also in the 18-25 age group and if you asked me where to score some pot, I’d shrug my shoulders. I have no clue who, if any of my friends do any sort of drug. I must exude an anti-hallucinogen field because I’ve made it 18 years without ever being offered marijuana or alcohol or any other illicit items.
Which is not to say that I don’t think they are present. Last year, some of the students in my school got in trouble for transporting marijuana across state lines. At the time, everyone else was shaking their heads and saying, “It had to happen sometime.” while I was going, “Hold the phone! They did drugs!?” Maybe I’m just sheltered.
I haven’t had the time to read all of the responses: but here’s my take on it.
When I was maybe 16 or 17 my parents found some hash in my coat pocket. They were smokers (cigarettes I mean) and although I never smoked around them, they knew I also smoked cigarettes.
Anyway, one Sunday morning, they were out of smokes and decided to check my coat pockets for a quick fix. In my cigarette pack there was a gram of hash wrapped in tin foil. When I awoke later in the day, they quite simply asked me what it was. I informed them that it was hash. They said “Yep. That’s what we thought” and then proceeded to give me the standard “we don’t condone” speech.
But then… they let me keep it! And never said another word!
I experimented a bit more, but to this day have not smoked pot or done any illicit drugs in maybe 14 years. Their approach, at the time, was magnificent. And the fact that they basically let me make up my own mind was unbelievable. I told my high school buddies that my parents had busted me and then let me keep it, and they were incredulous.
Where am i going with this? Oh yeah, perhaps NOT making a big deal out of this could be beneficial.