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when you were a kid were you anti-drug or pro-drug ?

Up until I was about in 7th grade, I always looked down at people who used drugs. I honestly didn't know anything about them except for that they were "bad" from what I had learned in school. Remember those stupid ass anti drug movies they'd show you in your health classes?

I believe it was Jimi Hendrix who changed my perspective of drugs in the first place. I became obsessed with his music and also he's the reason I picked up playing guitar in the first place. So he's been a pretty big influence on my life. I was young and idolized the shit out of him.

Weed was my first drug I ever did excluding nicotine and caffeine. I was already a smoker so I got the hang of it quick and it's all downhill from there...
 
I was VERY anti drug up until my 15th birthday when my older brother, who is a very rational person and I can believe him 100%, talked me into trying weed. I changed opinion very quickly lol, can't believe it's been 9 years since I did.

Like all people who don't search for real unbiased information on their own, I just thought all drugs are bad and their users are all criminals or insane. Except alcoholics & cig smokers of course, which are much more tolerated and not looked down on, especially in this country where everyone drinks. :o
 
i was OCD scared of drugs, including pot, because of D.A.R.E. in 5th grade until 8th grade. i don't know if i had much of an opinion before then. it was pretty much terrified (i won DARE essay contest, lol) to wanting to get high so much it irritated my friends.
 
man i was pretty anti drug. i remember my parents/teachers/couselors worried that i may start doing drugs and me saying "absolutley not, i already hang out with people like that and i see what it does and i want no part of it" and they were pot heads. i turned out to be such a fucking hypocrite

i remember one kid who i grew up with and he started smoking weed before me, and i would always give him shit for it, and he ended up being my biggest smoke buddy when i started getting high. we were smoking up together 24/7 and eventually he sold weed for me
 
I was very anti-drug, it started with "I'll never touch cigarettes, they're disgusting", then went to "I'll never touch weed, it's a drug and drugs are bad, mkay".
 
I had panic attacks and night terrors when I was a kid so a child psychiatrist put me on phenobarbital at the age of 7. I guess you could say that I've been pro-drugs ever since.
 
When I was a little kid before the 7th grade I would see drugs on tv like coke and heroin on documentaies and they would scare me. Now I'm completely pro drug. what ya got lemme do it.
 
even though i was "straight-edge" until i turned 15 (more of a music/scene choice), i've always been fascinated by drug culture, fringe cultures, and altered states for as long as i can remember. i shared a 40 with a friend a few months after my 15th birthday and started carpooling to school with a friend who had started selling weed pretty seriously. the end.
 
When I was 6 my older brother, then 14, tried to teach me about drugs and how bad they are for you (he's straight edge/booze only), drew a picture for me with needles, joints etc. I guess he tried to educate me.

The only thing I really recall though are those day when I had a cold and my parents spoonfed cough syrup to me. I remember the exact places the syrup was administered, the taste, the smell, my posture, my high expectations. I also remember the days when I went through my parents medicine cabinet, glowing eyes and all, reading the labels with their indications and warnings. God I was looking forward to fix myself up. When I was 15 I had already read 2 books on cannabis and finally gathered the courage to ask the 3 friends I had in school if they wanted to get blasted.

Long story short: I "was" drugs before I had ever heard of them!
 
Illyria99 said:
I had panic attacks and night terrors when I was a kid so a child psychiatrist put me on phenobarbital at the age of 7. I guess you could say that I've been pro-drugs ever since.
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You lucky shit you. (not entirely without irony)
 
I used to think that drugs were bad and, for the most part, looked down on those who did them. This was before I met anyone I knew personally who did drugs.

However, I've always thought they should be legal.
 
In my adolescence, say, age fourteen or fifteen, I was pro-drug of course... drawing pot leaves all over my notebooks and shit. lol

But then my older sister began shooting dope and smoking crack; she crashed her car, lost her job... all in a week's time. It was unbelievable, and stereotypical... commercial-worthy, even. I thought, "holy shit! I guess everything they said about drugs is true..."

So, then I became anti-drug until about my second year of college. I took a friend's adderall, and it was blast-off, baby... I got into the "legitimate" drugs, prescriptions and such... and well, became pro-drug again. lol
 
When I was younger -- up until about 15 -- I was neutral with leanings toward anti-drug. A lot of that had to do with the fact that I witnessed first-handed the terrible, dark places people could end up when addicted to a substance. I also went to a private Christian school up until 10th grade, and everyone in my grade was pretty prude when it came to drugs, including alcohol. I started drinking at 10, but stopped when I was 12 cause my mom got sober, and I had no more alcohol to steal. But other than that, I didn't start really using drugs heavily until I was 16.

I don't think this is something that can be reduced to a binary system of anti or pro, since it is quite a complex subject imo. I suppose I would consider myself "pro-drug" now because of the following reasons:
1)I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with mind-altering substances.
2)Used prudently, drugs can provide great experiences.
3)I am totally pro-legalization/decriminalization. (And this is the main reason I consider myself pro-drug)
 
From as long as I exist I've been very pro intoxication and I always had a very strong interest in it; as young as maybe four years old or something like that I was curious to the effects of alcohol and I remember when I was eight or nine I had this book on wild mushrooms and one of the mushrooms (I believe the psilocin containing one) said 'hallucinogenic' instead of edible, poisonous or inedible; I asked my mother what hallucinating was and she explained it to me and also mentioned shamans and such; the first thing I thought was 'later, when I'm grown up, I'm going to hallucinate.' At age eleven or so I read about LSD for the first time and I was instantly extremely curious; from as early as I was aware of the existance of psychedelics I was very sure I wanted to try them. By the time I was fifteen I finally bought mushrooms and had my first trip; since then I've done LSD around 75 times, mushrooms 30 times, DMT like 50 times or so and other psychedelics (and a lót of ketamine, which I found out about later but was also instantly sure I wanted to try which has been atleast weekly use for years now, nitrous and also downers and uppers).

As long as I can remember I remember having a positive additude towards intoxication; I come from a progressive left winged family of which the family members don't really use anything (except for alcohol and my grandmother tried LSD when she was young) themselves but both them and I feel that drug use is something people should decide for themselves. Personally I have always had a very strong interest in drugs; going back to my very early childhood. I always had a fascination with altered states of mind and I obviously still do. My main interest was in psychedelics and later when I found out about their existance dissociatives (hmm ketamine :) ); there's also a general curiousity that I always had and still have where I often just want to try things to know what they are like. Even though my family is very open minded none of them are as into altering their conciousness as I am and none of them were very experimental but it appears I was really born with it.

The only drug related activity I was ever against when I was younger was the smoking of tobacco but mainly because I didn't understand the benefits; as with drugs I do find and always found it's up to people themselves to decide what they do with their body; I'm very much for education especially harm reducing education; as accurate and available as possible so that people are aware of what they choose for.

Guess I was born about as pro-drug as people get :p
 
I was really anti-drug when I was younger. I thought I would never touch alcohol, cigs or drugs, ever and I didn't want to because I heard so many horror stories in school, the news, etc. Although when I turned 14, I got curious, started researching and finding out all I could about different substances and all of that changed lol.
 
I was pretty staunchly anti-drug for most of my life. I knew that I would try alcohol one day from an early age, but had zero interest in anything else (including weed). I even remember a friend telling me in the summer after 9th grade that she tried marijuana, and planned to try it again, causing our friendship to decline heavily for a while.

Around junior year of high school most of my friends started experimenting with weed, but I had a girlfriend who "didn't approve of it" so I chose sex over getting messed up with my friends...but when we broke up for good in the middle of senior year, you bet your ass I tried weed finally. Didn't really get high though until summer before college started, and once in college, it took me a whopping couple of weeks to quickly get heavily involved in the weed scene.

Soon after this, one of my best friends, who had always maintained an interest in drug usage and was going to an Ivy League University, started to experiment with xanax, coke, klonopin, vicodin, and codeine. At first I was terrified for him and begged him to stop, but he kept pushing that drugs weren't as bad as people said they were and that all these smart Ivy kids were into it. Next thing I knew I was trying ecstasy, coke, benzos, mushrooms, and lsd. Soon after that, a friend of ours from high school offered us heroin and we tried it.

Since this period of nearly 5 years of drug usage, I have been pro-drug use for only the first 8 months or so. After that, it was just something that I knew I liked but also knew was pretty damn bad for me overall. I remain in this liminal state of ambivalent negativity towards drugs.
 
So in short, I'd say I am pro people having a small number of drug experiences. Get blazed a couple (or more) times, maybe take acid once, have that one crazy night where you did coke, go to that one unbelievable concert on MDMA, but never, ever, become a "druggie." It's only downhill from there.
 
Anti drug.

I drank a little when I was young and had about 6 months of drinking fairly heavily in my early to mid 20's. At 35 I tried weed due to insomnia and soon became a daily user. After getting bored of it I started mixing in low amounts of xanax then soon after hydrocodone. I loved the hydro so much I started looking for some more and when I was unable to find that I found oxycodone. Needless to say this last year my life has revolved around drugs. I have had benzo scripts as well as opiate scripts (well one anyways) and so far I have kept my drug use under control and have never been physically addicted to anything, mentally on the other hand is a differnt story.
 
i grew up in the dare times, so up untill jr high my knowledge of drugs was purely propaganda. when my introverted genius brother told me he smoked pot, i had a paradigm shift.
 
Growing up in the 80s I was raised to believe that cocaine and heroin were evil incarnate - I've never touched them, even after all these years. But I had a passion for the 60s throughout my life, and when I got into Hendrix and the doors at age 13, I became fascinated with LSD and couldn't wait to try it. I took my first trip at 15, just before I left school in 1992...never looked back :)
 
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