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.

There were drugs at my high school. It's where I tried pot for the first time. I didn't really become aware of other, harder stuff until after high school, and I don't remember what it was like for my sisters when they went through school after me.

Or how you, you know, take it.

It's okay shrift. Actually, meth can be snorted, smoked or swallowed, so just about any method you can imagine will allow you to successfully injest it. Meth is versatile.

Everybody in my high school and junior high school smoked a lot of pot. But this was in Florida (where the drugs came in) during the 70s.

ION...

A vegan couple was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for the death of their malnourished 6-week-old baby boy, who was fed a diet largely consisting of soy milk and apple juice.

Superior Court Judge L.A. McConnell imposed the sentences on Jade Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31. Their son, Crown Shakur, weighed just 3 1/2 pounds when he died of starvation on April 25, 2004.

The couple was found guilty May 2 of malice murder, felony murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children. A jury deliberated about seven hours before returning the guilty verdicts.

You know, it's not against vegan principles to breast feed, lady...

World's smallest cat

Meet Mr. Peeples, The world's smallest cat! The Guinness Book of World Records has verified that Mr. Peebles is two years old, weighs about 1 kilo, is about 15 centimeters long and perfectly fits in a 200 ml glass.

However, there may soon be a new smallest cat. [link]

Could this be the world's smallest cat? The Guinness Book of Records is waiting until this little Munchkin kitten is fully grown to decide if he is a record breaker.

But Heed is well on track. At 14 weeks old he is just 3 1/4 inches tall, and weighs just over 2lbs.

And... World's smallest dog

This Chihuahua, measuring only 4 inches tall and 18 ounces, is likely to be the world’s smallest dog. The dog’s owner, Jenny Gomes, says that Dancer will likely be named the world’s smallest living dog in the Guiness Book of World Records.

There were lots of drugs in my high school. Pot, cocaine, heroin. I actually saw those, so I know they were there. Alcohol was a no-brainer because it was legal to drink at 18 in Colorado at that time. We could buy it as seniors.

The school I did my student teaching in? I didn't see any, but I saw plenty of drug dealers in the neighborhood. I'm sure there was some at school.

Jews for Bacon.

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My high school best friend's boyfriend was a cocaine dealer, so. He sold cooked cocaine -- like the predcessor to crack, I guess -- but only to people who were already baseheads. He had his morals.

Also, I smoked more pot than I drank alcohol in high school, because it was so much easier to get!

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Jews for Bacon.

Bwahaha! Oh, I have to forward that to my whole family.

I know there were drugs in the tiny private high school I went to for one year, but it was full of rich kids whose parents and others probably wouldn't believe their kids were stealing and drinking.

My first year in community college my boyfriend's (female) roommate had a thing for drinking and Whip its. Her Whip it machine had a permenent lipstick mark on it and she'd date the cartridges. Once she had a friend over who ate an entire container of ground nutmeg or cinnamon because he heard you could get high off of it. He ate it by the spoonfuls and chased it with water. It was the most pathetic thing I'd ever seen in my life.

A few years ago I had a hairdresser set up a drug deal while he was cutting my hair. Well, he took the phone call and moved a few feet away but I still totally could hear what he was doing.