There was a fair amount of drugs in my high school but nothing crazier than pot or hallucinogens. However, from my siblings tales of high school in the 1970s, things were way wilder back then.
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - May 09, 2007 6:54:19 am PDT #6302 of 10001
hip deep in pie
shrift - May 09, 2007 6:55:38 am PDT #6303 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I understand they might be a problem in some schools, but our schools are riddled with drugs?
When I was in high school, I'd hear about pot and, once in a blue moon, ecstasy. Now the surrounding rural community apparently has a massive number of meth labs.
And yet I still have no idea what crystal meth looks like. Or how you, you know, take it.
brenda m - May 09, 2007 6:56:48 am PDT #6304 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Drugs were something only the "burnouts" did....
t raises hand
There was a fair amount of drug use at my (inner city) hs, but nothing compared to what went on at the richie north shore suburban schools.
Daisy Jane - May 09, 2007 6:58:23 am PDT #6305 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
We apparently have a cheese problem here in Dallas. Again, I get that drugs are bad; I just don't think they're "ravaging America."
tommyrot - May 09, 2007 6:59:04 am PDT #6306 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
And yet I still have no idea what crystal meth looks like. Or how you, you know, take it.
You snort it, like coke. Usually it's a white powder. Sometimes it's kinda' "moist." Sometimes it's pink.
Jessica - May 09, 2007 7:00:48 am PDT #6307 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
How much drug use does there have to be before a school qualifies as "riddled"? My (private) HS was definitely more into alcohol, the (public) magnet school I almost went to was more about the pot and cocaine. (Note to schools - the DARE program? Mainly useful for letting kids know what drugs look like so they'll know exactly what to ask their dealers for. NSM with the keeping them away.)
Sue - May 09, 2007 7:01:10 am PDT #6308 of 10001
hip deep in pie
We apparently have a cheese problem here in Dallas.
I take it that some slangy drug name and that the youth of Dallas aren't mainlining gruyere.
sumi - May 09, 2007 7:01:38 am PDT #6309 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
ION, Koolaid Pickles - I like pickles. . . but. . .
shrift - May 09, 2007 7:02:31 am PDT #6310 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Good to know, tommyrot. I'll never put it into practice, except perhaps fictionally.
sarameg - May 09, 2007 7:03:35 am PDT #6311 of 10001
There was all sorts of stuff floating around the schools, but it wasn't really in your face or anything, so the community was probably in a fair amount of denial about what did go on. Well, except for the occasional gang fight.
I was surprised to learn, years later, that my childhood friend had been a pretty big dealer and, um, manufacturer? He very lucky because they used him to nail the ringleader, a chemistry grad student, but basically kept him off the books as long as he cleaned up his act (he met the student when he interned for the guy. Who knew those high school internship programs could be so lucrative?!)