Personally, I think using drugs has made me a better person. I've been researching psychoactives for the past few years now and have done a good variety of them for a 'kid' my age. Sure I have been called a 'druggie' but that is a loose term. Despite my more than occassional drug use I have been able to smoke pot, crack, do heroin (FREE FROM THE ROADSIDE), ecstasy and other drugs. I try to incorporate drug use and negative impacts of prohibition in many of the papers I write for school, it is like my inspiration.
I feel drug use has allowed me to view the world from multiple perspectives and improve my thoughts about life. I have not the slightest idea what I would be doing right now had I never smoked that joint three years ago, or even popped that pink Yin Yang just a couple years back. I have cautiously been able to keep my entire life style unexposed to my parents, though im sure my family doesn't doubt I am on something.