Just wondering...how did people on here first get told that smoking pot or doing other drugs were bad? Did you parents sit down with you and have "the talk" about drugs. Did you hear from gym teachers at school? Was it your probation officer who first told you????

My first and only introduction that I can remember came in the 8th grade. We got this stupid sex video with stick figures to teach us about "reproduction", followed the next week or so by forcing us to watch "Reefer Madness". Our junior high football coaches told us after the movie that we'd go insane just like the characters in the movie did if we smoked pot. I was sooooooo unworldly and naiive to things like that, but even I spoke up and said something like "Coach, nobody believes smokers act like that. We all know people who smoke, and none of them act like that." Funny thing is that I had never even seen pot, had no idea exactly how you used it or how it affected you, but knew that story they were telling us was total B.S.

If memory serves, I got to run a BUNCH of windsprints for making my comments.

Then I had to defend myself that I wasn't a drug user to the principal, coaches, my parents, etc. All because they chose to lie to us, and didn't want anyone to speak up.
onwardthroughthefog Reviewed by onwardthroughthefog on . Drugs are bad....mmmmkay? Just wondering...how did people on here first get told that smoking pot or doing other drugs were bad? Did you parents sit down with you and have "the talk" about drugs. Did you hear from gym teachers at school? Was it your probation officer who first told you???? My first and only introduction that I can remember came in the 8th grade. We got this stupid sex video with stick figures to teach us about "reproduction", followed the next week or so by forcing us to watch "Reefer Madness". Rating: 5