Our school was so agricultural that we were all pretty much baffled by the anti-drug campaigns at the time. We were all, well, we wouldn't know drugs if you handed them to us. We'd probably try to bake something with them. So I wouldn't worry if I were you. Lots of pot, though.
Now? The local schools I'd call "riddled" with drugs. For a while there were dealers just walking into the school. There's a new principal now, and he's locked it down a lot, but at the cost of a lot of personal freedoms. But it's a real problem.
Particularly with meth.
Late '70s. Lots of alcohol, so much that those of us who didn't drink (at least on weekends) were seen as odd. I think there was a fair amount of pot and at least a little cocaine. But I'm not sure how much (either during school hours or afterward/on weekends) because I was way, way out of the social mainstream.
Good to know, tommyrot. I'll never put it into practice, except perhaps fictionally.
I read this as a response to the KoolAid pickles.
First thought - Hey, shrift's gonna write SPN/O11. Excellent!
I'm not sure it is hysteria. I look at the section of the cemetery where my father is buried. Way too many of the people in that section were born in the 1980s. There have been a ton of heroin deaths.
Late '70s. Lots of alcohol, so much that those of us who didn't drink (at least on weekends) were seen as odd.
Yeah. That was my high school. My girlfriend used to give me shit because I didn't smoke or drink - she said it made me look like I thought I was "better" than everyone.
Basically, I didn't drink in high school because I had to drive everywhere I went and I was paranoid about drunk driving.
Oh, and they hit us very hard with the anti-drug campaign when I was in 5th-6th grade (about 1972-74). No particular emphasis on avoiding any particular drug. Favorite vehicles were movies narrated by Art Linkletter and Sonny Bono.
Basically, I didn't drink in high school because I had to drive everywhere I went and I was paranoid about drunk driving.
I was focused on college, and I wanted to take no chances whatever of blowing it on an underage drinking arrest. So, since I didn't turn 18 until 3 months after graduation....
My throat hurts from the smoke, and I feel like I'm breathing mud.
Allyson, as soon as you can get in/out, I would like to loan you my air filter. It works really well, and I think it will really help you to breathe better in your apartment for the next few days as the smoke and ash settles. Can I please talk you into taking it?
Went to HS from 1989-1993. We drank like fishes, smoked pot a fair amount (c'mon, this is Alaska, we've got some of the best dope ever), and my friends dropped acid or did 'shrooms quite often. There were a few kids who did coke, but they were the rich kids who could afford to burn out. Never saw crack or heroin or any of the super-hard drugs. I would have said that the drinking was the worst of our problems.
Now, of course, meth is huge and affecting a lot more kids.
