Was high school a drug-filled haze for you?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

It was for me. I didn't drink much but I have two words for you which show you why I got an 11 in chemistry my senior year:

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Alas *sigh*

[meegbear]

1. Yes it was ...

and I graduated in the upper 10% of my class of 370. In you face Nancy Reagan!

[matcom]

2. yeah but mine was more like this

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. Couldn't stand the stuff going down my throat - only did it once

blech!

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. Not IN school, but out of school

I did my fair share.

[jdonaldball]

4. you don't need drugs to be in a haze, at any age

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

7. Yeah but acid makes that haze so much more kaleidoscopic

[Dookus]

6. totally

a lotta green and even more acid.

I graduated 43rd out of 760 students anyway.

[lovedems]

8. Absolutely!

And I loved every minute of it! Went on to graduate from college Magna Cum Laude! I admit, sometimes we get our kids to spend the night at grandma's and relive the good old days! Not very often but partying is still fun to do from time to time.

It makes me wonder what I would do if I found pot in my kids bedroom. Would I get mad and tell them how bad it is or would I insist they just be responsible with their grades and extra-curricular activities? Hmmm... It isn't a bridge I will have to cross for several years but this post has me thinking.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. Honest honesty honesty!!!

That's what my parents used and it worked (where they failed is real involvement in what I was doing) it ended up being a phase (a very important life affirming phase)

[lovedems]

10. Honesty? Like how much mom and dad liked the green in High School?

Just kidding. My initial thought is if they are responsible, I will let them know I know what they are doing and if they screw up in school or start getting in trouble, they won't know what hit them. As long as they are responsible, I won't cause a fuss but that doesn't mean I approve. Wouldn't it be rather hypocritical to punish them for something I did when I was there age? I was responsible about it and would have to trust that they would be too. Trusting your children goes along way when they respect your trust and don't want to let you down!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. Yes and, even more importantly, there is nothing teenagers HATE more

than hypocrisy. IMO

[tigereye]

22. I agree

it will be hard to explain what we uh, used to do when my kid asks the same question or if we were to find anything.

[lovedems]

26. My oldest is 8 so we have awhile.

I will just have to encourage my husband not to ask, "where did you get it?" In all honesty, he wouldn't do that but that doesn't mean the thought wouldn't cross his mind!

I fall back on trusting our kids to do the right thing.

[tigereye]

29. my son is also 8

and I suppose there is the anti-drug indoctrination thing, as well. Even though he goes to a progressive school, there is also that element.

[LiberalVoice]

11. Pizzot!!!!!!

Got the 3rd highest SAT score in philly! And I took the test stoned!!! I was so fucking nervous cuz I didn't study AT ALL for it. What better way to calm your nerves then to smoke a bowl before testing?

[luaneryder]

15. I only did average on the SAT

I was still tripping from the mescaline I had done the night before.

[franmarz]

12. Not for me

I graduated in 1945.

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. I forget.

:shrug:

[luaneryder]

16. Yeppers, it surely was

but I actually got out in '71 with a 3.0 average and missed over 50 days of my senior year. I had friends in Bluegrass country who had horses and weed grew along the pastures fence lines. All we had to do is pick our own. It wasn't particularly good (KY Blue), but it was free. I had a freaking great time in HS!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. Nah. I was too drunk to get high.

Or vice versa.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. lol

awesome!

[LiberalVoice]

21. I've heard...

that for some people smoking pot and drinking gets you more drunk...I've found it to be opposite. I'll have a few beers to get more stoned!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. I've heard that acid makes you into three forms of triangular energy balls

each one multiplying genetic resonancees in a grassy plot of land in the countryside. The birds chirp and rabbits romp in the slaughterhouse, caving in on itself, is plunged into a universe of fractions, 1/5, 7/9, 1/2000th the force of a moth in carbonite.

At least, that's what I've heard

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. Nah, dude it activates the pineal gland, your third eye.

Of course, I usually just activate my pineal gland through wanking.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

27. Y'know they found that also keeps you from getting prostate cancer

so its a win win - far as I'm concerned

[Screaming Lord Byron]

38. Hooray! Spunk on, dude!

[johnnie]

19. Are you specifically referring to

...the dates between September of 1979 and June of 1983 (I did an extra year because I liked the idea of free education :evilgrin: )? Or do you mean just the days that I went to the school? Does summer vacation from school count? What exactly do you mean by "high school"?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. All the above

I think High School is self explanatory - especially given the responses I'm getting :)

[johnnie]

28. Ah...ok

The generalized term for the ages of 15 thru 18 or thereabouts.
I will then have to answer the thread with: While attending school I distributed a lot more than I ingested. My drops of liquid and cigarette packs filled with rolled up grass made other's high school days more hazy than it made mine. (Although I was richer than they were)
Now outside of the institution, I ingested my fair share of each of everything I knew existed. It was a long strange trip, but those days are gone and I have fully recovered...I think.

[EstimatedProphet]

24. Not really

I smoked a few times but not much. But I did hang out with major stoners.

[jdonaldball]

30. Amateurs

Altered states are wasted on the young.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

34. Hey hey - I see few people saying they stopped then

I know I didn't - I've slowed down a bit now that I have responsibilities

[jdonaldball]

37. You have responsibilities AND RIGHTS! Your Carmen Miranda Rights!

Your Carmen Miranda Rights:
You have the right to wear fruit on your head!
You have the right to do a silly dance!
You have the right to say, "brrrrrREEbah! Chachacha!"

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

40. I prefer my Charo rights! Coochie coochie!!

[sundog]

31. No, college was -- I discovered substances at the right time...

Thankfully, I think it resulted in a more positive experience

[flamingyouth]

32. I actually started taking a lot of acid around then

But amazingly, my grades went up... :shrug:

I mostly wrote bizarre poetry and remained generally harmless.;)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

33. I wrote tomes of bizarre poetry but became famous for these amorphous

drawings of faces and patterns - it very much supercharged my career as an artist!

[flamingyouth]

35. I wish I could find those notebooks from back then

I fear they got tossed back when my parents' moved in the late '90s. :(

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

36. Hey - the only person who has my acid poetry is Randomkoolzip

I need to contact that bastard!

[scarlet_owl]

39. Nope.

All that started after I got out of high school.