Quote Originally Posted by insanity
There's a differance between teaching them right from wrong and lying to them to scare them. Drugs are illegal, and no kid should be told to go out and smoke weed (I wish I would have waited untill I was older to start). What gets to me is that these fear tactics don't do anything except breed an assload of idiot drug users who have never been taught the differnce between abuse and responsible use.
It isn't just drugs though... I mean we all grew up being told what they think our minds could handle. For example, I do not know many people that graduated from high school who could honestly tell me anything about General Custer and Little Big Horn, but I think everyone knows the cute story of our first Thanksgiving (which is also an outright lie). I mean there is a reason we have an undereducated apathetic public who believe what Fox News tells them.
yup. if i have kids i would want them to be informed, but certainly it would be a terrible thing to fuck up a young child's development. they're so very susceptible when they're young. i have a friend of mine that spent his entire adolescene on one narcotic after another, including anything he could get his hands on. he spend 3years in juvee and rehab, and now is obviously mentally incapacitated. not retarded, but the drugs have obviously damaged his brain. he is slow, emotionally unstable etc.

i think we can all agree that there are plenty of substances in the world that can hurt you a lot; i think y'all are saying it right with "understanding" the difference between different substances. not just deciding to break the rules one day, uninformed, and OD on something you didn't know anything about.