Stance on drugs as a kid?

[Gaz1888]

Interesting question......

When you were a child, say 10 or 11, what were your views on drugs? Did you view them as terrible substances you'd NEVER use or were you more fair-minded on the subject?

For me personally, I, probably like many other people, believed any sort of drugs to be like the makings of the devil that kills you instantly lol, which was probably due to propaganda from both the media and my parents etc. And it's not until you try your 1st substance that you realise it's not like that at all, and it's just scare tactics really.

People who drink alcohol and then consider people who smoke cannabis (Or whatever) like some sort of junkie sums up how wrong our society is today, as if the damage to their bodys is justified because the government allows it, even though alcohol is far worse, can't stand that.


So, what were your views as a kid?

[Bali Muncher Jim]

Now I think back I dont ever remember hearing/seeing or knowing anything about drugs, until 13 when someone at school mentioned about using hairspray / deodrant to get high, then lighter gas. Then about 15 a friend said wanna try this joint, I did and fell in love, with the joint, not my mate.

[shizerbeard]

I can remember being a wee kid in primary school thinking id never do any, not even tobacco or alcohol.

:p

started smoking about 14 i think then at 15 was drinking and toking though.

Didnt get into anything more than that til i was about 19 when i started on various other substances

[iodei]

This isnt too long ago for me. I started when I was 16. I remember it wasa near the end of the year. My friends all smoked. I always wanted some sort of out of body/high like experience. I got high(weed) in my basement near the window. Except the smoke didnt go otu the window... My whole house smelled like weed and I spent the rest of the night airing out the house lol. Then I got me a quad and got even higher. Even since then MJ has been my best friend. Before that, and to this day, I still think drugs that are naturally addictive are bad for you just because of the dependancy inherant in your body not just your mind. Just a personal thing: I dont ever want a substance to have control over me.

[GOA]

Thought drugs were generally bad until I was 16. Then I came to realize the real terrible drugs are the ones that are legal and taxed.

[valseedian]

I was adamantly against anything mind-altering... tho I didn't realize at the time how much aderall changed me..
didn't use anything recreationaly untill I was 17 and then didn't become a heavy user untill I was 19... I'm 21 now

[slickster]

Anti-drug programs like Operatin Aware...the precursor to the D.A.R.E. program around here...actually perked my interest in them...especially L.S.D., had it not been for such a program i probably wouldn't have found out about drugs until high school..but because of it I started smoking weed and popping prescriptions in middle school and junior high..it was funny to me when everyone in high school had a huge attitude change towards me...all of a sudden...bam..accepted...crazy how that works...

[Spaced out]

Totoaly agiesnt it, tohught you werre all losers!

[dwayne_dibley]

Well it was always drilled into me how bad it all was, and to be honest I was shit scared of it all because of all the lies I was fed. Drugs are bad, take them and die! I thought I'd never do it, and thought my older brother was CRAZY for smoking weed and taking acid.

I got to about 12 years old and alot of my friends at the time were smoking hash, so I was offered a 'bucket' and took it. This actually compounded all my fears, cos I was so freaked out by it LOL. I did smoke on occasions after that, but not very much. It wasn't until I was about 16 when I had my first MDMA experience which totally changed my outlook on drugs forever!

I still dont like smoking weed/hash, I think that first experience put me off for life. Some of the fear of drugs that was drilled into me as a child is still in me now, even though I know its mostly irrational.

[Opeium]

I never used to think I would do anything but drink n smoke weed! I used to think if I dropped a pill I would die. Hah. Funny times.

Then when I went to a rave (they aren't nearly as fun without drugs you know) I was given some pills n have ever looked back (on the non-drug years) when I'm on a comedown. lol.

[wildguy6969]

Totoaly agiesnt it, tohught you werre all losers!

yup me to till i hit 11 ................. and tried my first sweet puff of mary ......iam 27 now ...........always been there for me .........

[TheNorthKingdom]

Well as a kid I thought that the marijuana plant was cool. I even had a shirt from Thailand which said: "Marijuana Army" with a marijuana leaf on it.. Before I even started to think about smoking it, I decided to grow it!

My parents didnt have anything against it until one of my parents friends told them that if the police came by then my parents would go to prison.. (LIE!!).. I only had 3-4 plants and thats only a small fine.

I have always had the opinion that drugs with a needle is bad and I still think that.

I have always been interested in drugs when I was little but I never thought about trying them. Started when I was 14 with hash.

[GOA]

Yeah, poking is BAD. I'll never do it unless it's at a hospital, and a nurse does it for me. Besides the risk of disease, infection, and overdose, the scars left on the arms are just plain dirty. And it makes addictive substances about 10x more addicting due to the rush.

:: shudder :: :eek:

[ashxcore]

I typed a rather lengthy response that didn't go through one day and I CBF to try and recall it and type it over.
I loved Alice in Wonderland as a child, the book too, and I was always intrigued by my very vivid, epic dreams. I think I developed an interest in alcohol before anything, though, at around 10. Interest in drugs probably started at around 14. I remember doing a project on the effects of drugs on the body for biology when I wads 15, and I was QUITE excited about the topic. Cannabinoids and hallucinogens I remember were the only things I was interested in at the time. I researched DXM for months when I was 17, and I finally tried it about a month before I turned 18, I think. It was my first real drug experience.

I'm still 18 now, but it's sort of funny how much I've gotten into in less than a year. ;)
I'm surely no seasoned psychonaut or wellspring of experience, but I never would have imagined the things I'd have access to...

I also judged people for smoking (my mother's doing) until I turned about 16, but even then I wondered why people smoked if it didn't get them high (knew nothing about that buzz). I had no interest in cigarettes. Fast forward to a few months before my 18th birthday, and I'm suddenly interested in cigarillos. I had also decided that I'd probably buy a pack of cigs when I turned 18 just because I could. In a series of anticlimactic events, I smoked my first cigarillo two days before I turned eighteen and bought a few more on my actual birthday but didn't get carded. Fast forward perhaps a few weeks later and I bought my first pack of cigs. Fast forward about two months and I'm at a hookah bar with a friend (amazing experience, btw). Fast forward a few more weeks after that and I've become a casual smoker who only smoked Natural American Spirits (no additives). Fast forward a few months and now I love the taste of Camel Turkish Royals and I'm pining for a one as we speak. Still only a casual smoker, (as in, a pack lasts me about a month or two) but I CBA to smoke at home living with my mother. I think she'd prefer to know I smoked weed rather than cigs. It's safe to say there is somewhat of a psychological addiction but I don't foresee myself smoking with regularity. I hate smelling like a burning tobacco field so it's a bother to have more than the odd cig every once in a while.

[piracetam101]

Hugs not drugs.

Sensitive thugz still need hugs.

[dave777]

Interesting question......

When you were a child, say 10 or 11, what were your views on drugs? Did you view them as terrible substances you'd NEVER use or were you more fair-minded on the subject?

For me personally, I, probably like many other people, believed any sort of drugs to be like the makings of the devil that kills you instantly lol, which was probably due to propaganda from both the media and my parents etc. And it's not until you try your 1st substance that you realise it's not like that at all, and it's just scare tactics really.

People who drink alcohol and then consider people who smoke cannabis (Or whatever) like some sort of junkie sums up how wrong our society is today, as if the damage to their bodys is justified because the government allows it, even though alcohol is far worse, can't stand that.


So, what were your views as a kid?
the same.
in fact, they stayed the same till my 30's.
I never knew anyone who did drugs, so wondered why people would want to mess themselves up like that?
It's quite easy to fall into hive mind thinking, and progeganda, if you have no friends or dont know anyone who has a more realistic view of how things are, someone who has done drugs.

Also I still have that mindset about heroin and crack.
Now that I have seen crack and heroin users myself, I think I actually feel more stronger about the evilness of these two.

As for acid, mdma, ket, weed........etc.....etc - I am infinitely glad I tried these lot and can genuinely say, the expererienced changed my life, permanently, for the better.

[SecretAgent79]

I was totally against em and didnt really have a clue wot all the fuss was about. Thought everyone that took em was a absolute twat and a werido!
First tryed when i was about 20 and now understand y people like em, my opinion of people who use drugs has since changed. I really dont understand how these so called drug advisers can advice people how to stop using drugs when they have neva used em themselves, coz untill u have u aint got a clue.

[Mona Lisa]

As a child I used to be really anti-drugs, especially because I suffered unpleasant side effects from medication I was being given for hyperactivity. I can remember dreading being sent to a psychiatrist because I feared I'd be forced onto all sorts of medications that would effectively rob me of my feelings and soul.

I felt it was wicked to put chemicals in ones body merely for kicks. But by about age 10, I began to be curious after reading more about drugs' various effects. I remember a book published in the late 70s called something like 'Go ask Alice' about a high school girl who got into LSD and had a really bad experience with it. I can recall in sixth grade being so curious but also happy to learn about it from afar, especially due to the risk of bad trips like she had.

I was a bit of a goody two-shoes till I had an opportunity to try marijuana at university. I quickly learned how much I loved the high and how good it made me feel. I also appreciated how it didn't make me feel awful the way drinking too much did. But when ecstasy came on the scene the following year, I was too cautious to give it a try, even though it was still legal when I first heard about it! (it was also very expensive and was about $25 a pill which would have been similar in real terms to about 50 pounds sterling today or perhaps $80 in today's money, which is far too much for a student without a job to be paying out for.

But by the time I finished college and was no longer under my parent's wing, I started experimenting with LSD and mushrooms, and MDMA once I was about 23. Never looked back!! :D

[ashxcore]

Go Ask Alice was a good read. Sixth grade is a little young to be reading it. I don't think I read it until 10th grade, when I was either 14 or 15.

[holdout]

haha ashxcore you're like me..... just about a year now since i got into them.... tried herbal high type drugs years ago and they let me down.... but RC's rule! :D

anyway yes they teach kids in school drugs are bad, drugs are bad. it is a classic example of brainwashing. i went on with my life not knowing or even ASKING myself how or why i just "know" that "drugs are bad". it was like a mindless concept ingrained in my mind. i NEVER thought twice about drugs and always looked down on ppl who took them. i didnt promise myself i'd never do them because i didnt have to. it was so obvious in my mind that i'd never touch them cuz "drugs are bad" and that's how things went....

until this month last year..... when i tried my first ever stimulant..... and i felt complete utter BETRAYAL!!!!!!! my own education. my own society..... has DECEIVED me!!! drugs.... are.... GLORIOUS! (only certain types, and if done responsibly) hehe....

i see no harm if common sense if used, and precautions are taken, and measures are put in place to nourish your body and protect it from harmful side-effects... for example, taking antioxidants if taking stimulants, etc. etc.... (i know, RC's arent exactly common sense but that's what we're forced to turn to now that governments worldwide have made almost everything scheduled and "illicit")

i have much more confidence in my everyday life now even when not on drugs. and whenever i want to, i can conjur up a good mood just because i have the experience of "being there" and knowing how good your brain can bestow mood and emotions upon your consciousness. haha. i know what it's like to feel pristine and euphoric, and i can finally relate to it, which is why, almost at will, i can bring myself to feeling good whenever i want. it's like a cure for depression! how can u be happy if u dont know what happiness is? :D

[GOA]

You'll never truly respect herbals until you have your first ayahuasca or datura experience. :eek:

Possibly your last for the latter...

I'm glad to see people taking precaution with their RCs and gaining benefits. Though binging and regular use, not such a good idea. I'd never condone that. Regardless of how many supplements one takes.

[holdout]

You'll never truly respect herbals until you have your first ayahuasca or datura experience. :eek:

hey i'm not bashing botanicals/herbals/whatevers. our science would get NOWHERE without all the plentiful naturally-occurring psychoactive compounds. i was bashing those crap herbal high style products.... like Space Cadets hahahaha.


yea i'm gonna try what you mentioned sometime.... for now i'm trying to get kratom to work for me......... i got umm a 15x extract i believe, from KR***MC**Y.COM and i took like a gram or two and nothing happened :confused:

[Pandy]

until my mid teens all drugs were bad because thats what we were told over and over. shared my first joint at 15 and everything changed from there. started educating myself and ignoring the BS school educators "drugs are bad mmm-kay"
since then I have tried many different substances. MDMA being the most favorite, although I have been fortunate to have had a few shots of morphine in a home setting which where the best :D

Still have some hard views on the use of methamphetamine. nasty nasty stuff. seen good people die using that shit.

[bammyjastard]

lol I nicked the odd valium from my mum at about 14-15. Along with whatever alcohol I could steal from the house too. My m8's parents banned him from associating with me, cos I was from a council estate and considered a bit rough for their little lad haha. Never really considered drugs after that until I started college/work. Smoked 1st spliff b4 I even started smoking ciggies. Then it was mushrooms, weed and occasionally phet, until I got married n had kids etc. Just weed then until about 3 yrs ago, when packed weed in n had the odd phet sesh wiv bro in law. Then we discovered mephedrone:D Now my brain chems are having a bit of a stimulation renaissance :)
OOO shit, just heard on radio Sir Bobby Robson has died....poor fella:(

[Bassbloke]

As a child I tended to believe whatever crap was told to me on the subject of drugs - for a long time I regarded weed smokers as stupid, never having tried it myself. Certainly anything harder than weed was in my mind far too dangerous to be trifled with. When I hit 18 I began to take more of an interest in psychedelics, and began doing some google searches at uni on mushrooms - which brought me to the old edit forums.
After that I became more and more interested in drugs, and more and more disillusioned with what I'd been led to believe. So I began experimenting and such - had some great experiences over the last two years (though not as many as I'd like :p).

[Mona Lisa]

I've written earlier on this thread but wanted to add that I became secretly fascinated by what psychelics like LSD could do, how they could affect the mind. I fondly remember Elton John's version of 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' being played on the radio while I was in fourth grade!

Part of me is still ambivalent about drugs though because I realise they can damage one's health. Nothing's black and white.