June - 2010
u think its fun
Northern Canada
i though i could handel it i though just once it would be ok but i ended up smoking weed every day three times a day...then i started drinkin and going 2 partys and i would lie 2 my family every week and it came 2 the point were it would be 4 in the morning i would be trying 2 walk home drunk and high and i though i would just pass out right there...pluss its scary i was trying 2 get into clubs and im only 13 i would pee every were it was sick and werid i would be smoking in my gramas bathroom and trying 2 hide it and when ur with ur friends and its late at night lots of nasty men try things its eww its nasty..then one day i was walkin 2 school and one of my friends asked if i wanted 2 smoke some weed and i was like shure but then me and her got caught then are other friend hade a 2,6 which is like a big bottle of alcohal and then people found out about are drinkin and r smoking and i was grounded for about 2mouths my dad was soo sad he didnt talk 2 me for about 3days...then my dad took my cell and errr it sucked some people dont look at me the same way....
BIG MISTAKE
Western Canada
The first time i ever did dope was when i was in grade nine and
them i started to get addicted to it and them i started to do do hash,
acid, mushrooms and then i started to do oil but then i thought what am
i doing with my life i moved to a new province and i have ben clean for 4
weeks now and for all the young people that look at these storys say
thanks but no thanks its not worth doing
There is no such thing as Soft drug
Western Canada
This is a real story. (The violent nature of this story might
shock some younger readers. Viewer discretion is advised!)
Marijuana is considered as a soft drug, but i completly disagree!
It all started when I was searching for an identity in high school. I
used to skateboard all the time, so i introduced myself to the
sakterboarders gang and started hanging out with them. Those so called
freinds introduced me to pot, and i wanst afraid to try. Let me tell you that for the first 2 years i
was consuming cannabis every lunch time, and after school time. I
failed my grade 8 and realised that it was really stupid to consume at
school so i bought the pot to keep more after school to smoke with my
freinds. You must ask youself how did i afford such a thing? Well i
stole alot of school materials to sell them back in pawn shops, which
was really immoral, but i had no remorce because i was high most of the
time or thinking who cares what i do as long as i get high with my
freinds. My personality really changed i was really agressive even to
the ones i loved. Since i got kicked out of my high school along with
my freinds for smoking in school grounds after class, I really became
an other person. I went to an special high school where most of the
people did crimes or had social problems, i started hanging out with
dangerous people and faded away from my old freinds. These new freinds
got me into driking which made go crazy, we were robbing people for money to support our habbits. Then one day we had
nothing police were scouting everywhere and one of my freind knew a
person that was a freind of his ex girlfreind, and this individual was
a drug dealer. He knew where he lived, and he told me to come with him
to help him get somthing, I asked for the others to come but he said we
had to be at least 2. we went in front of an appartment building waited
untill sombody came out so we keep the door opend to enter. My freind
only found Crack and we smoked it since we wanted to get high. When i
smoked the crack i was out of my mind and super angry. I never tought
that feeling of wanting to get high will lead me to try some garbage
drug, and i left my freind and hated him for making me smoke this crap.
None of my other freinds knew what we were up too and i never talked to
them about it, and i clearly threatned my freind life if he ever talked
about what we did. Then summer time came and i stoped smoking pot
(cause i knew how it messed me up and how it made me do anything just
to get a high) and hangin out with anybody, then i heard that my freind
that robed the drug dealer was shot, and that he was going to be
handicaped for life. Since this day i moved to Canada clean and I finished my
college, and i am a proud peace enforcer! I regret all my life for ever
touching weed, but fighting crime keeps my moral up! I am really happy
to know that Canada is allowing others to read our experiences. This is
really important to keep your kids away from bad influences, and to
introduce drugs and their effects. Weed is no Soft drug, it just takes
you more quantity to get you high. High on Meth or high on crack its just the same as being high on weed, because they all get you high! I
would of been a different person if i never touched drugs. Every day i
live with hidden hate and i try to seek forgivness! See how drugs
destroyed me? The devil can walk with you and you wont even know it!
Thanks for your time!
Protect our children from evil!
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Central Canada
I'm your typical first year university student. Taking classes,
writing tests, doing essays, all that fun stuff. But back in high
school it was a different matter. I was introduced to drugs and alcohol
back in grade 8 so when I entered high school it was nothing new to me,
and for a good three years i was clean, I never drank or smoke, I was a
part of the "good group" in school. But as I entered my last year of
school everything changed, things happened and my group of friends
changed, and with that the parties I went to also changed. I got into
drinking to the point that I would throw up, and I would smoke weed
whenever I could.
As the summer came I was in my first serious relationship with a guy I really loved. One week my parents went away and I had a party and of course we all smoked up, to this day I regret inviting my boyfriend because it was the first time he ever smoked it and now almost a year later he smokes at least once a day, and I know its going to ruin his life and I know its my fault.
Then I started university and things got worse, I used more and more often, my grades started to go down, I didn't want to go to any of my classes and I started going to more and more unsafe places to find weed. I have never tried anything stronger then weed and I never plan to.
Take some advice from someone who's been there and seen almost everything, as must fun as you think it will be the long term effects of drugs on you and those you love are not worth it.
Drugs are bad!
Western Canada
Drugs are bad because they are bad.
The Pain of 6 Years.
Central Canada
I am 20 years old and have used drugs for the past 6 years. It
was slow and gradual, but starting with drinking and marijuana, I was
always adventurous and decided to try other substances. It was great at
first (you take drugs to feel good short term), although several years
later as a result of my mostly stimulant (cocaine, amphetamines, etc)
drug use, I finally had a breakdown due to my increased use of these
hard drugs.
I ended up being diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, a hereditary disease (in my case) which was exacerbated by my increased use of drugs. I was put on pharmeceuticals and 4 months later I recovered. Those 4 months were the worst days of my life, constant anxiety depression and insomnia, directly associated with drug use, as I have seen with many friends. (Underlying mental diseases can be activated with drug use).
It is now a month after I have recovered and I no longer drink alcohol or use drugs.
In conclusion I would like to support the kids of our future in saying no to drugs, as I have personally experienced severe negative effects. My lowest lows in life were caused by drug use, the non drug related lows feel like a blessing compared to that caused by drugs.
Thank you for reading my biographic story =) stay drug free and healthy!
I've been there, please hear me out.
Other
Right now im 19, turning 20 in a month. I'm in university and I
will say I am doing well, but there is a message I do need to share and
I think those younger than myself could really benefit from it. When I
was in grade 10, the thing to do was smoke weed. I started smoking with my best friends and we did it
religiously for a couple years. I'm no goody two shoes and I'm not
exactly a rebel, I was your average social teenager. We would justify
what we were doing with all sorts of pro-weed rheotirc we were drawn
into at the time. Furthermore we were all musicians at the time, and it
seemed like weed smoking and guitar playing went hand in hand.
By grade 12, weed is old news and many of us had tried things such as mushrooms and acid MDMA etc. Here's where things get messed up. A couple of my friends went into psychosis and the doctors had no doubt it was the drugs. This was very startling for all of us and hurt our group of friends very much. Furthermore I began to notice what was already obvious from the beginning. Weed simply did not agree with me. It was causing me paranoia, anxiety, and overall apathy and depression in my life. Eventually I realized this and stopped but honestly it was too late because the drugs had taken a tole on me, and looking back I have no doubt in my mind of it. I look back and remember how anxious I would be and yet I continued smoking weed blindy.
I would have laughed at myself had I known then I would even be on this site now, but look here is the deal. Weed mushrooms acid, the thing is and researchers are realizing this now, is that they really affect the way your brain develops and can really really damage and change the course of your life. I have seen it and it almost happened to me. WI know what its like I could go on about this forever, but please if your on the fence about drugs, just put it on hold for a bit.
When I was younger I believed that the only reason the government "brainwashed" us into not smoking weed was for their own purposes. Today I say they are right, stay away from the drugs its not your time, be unique, stand out. I will say this before I go and this is for the guys.
This is huge by the way. When your at a party and you think you are impressing a girl by doing drugs, you are SO mistaken. Most girls see that as a sign of weakness, they see that you are following the crowd, and girls don't like that. If you want to impress a girl, next time your friends bust out a few spliffs at a party take the girl outside, and use the opportunity without all the other guys to get to know her:). It really shows something, and believe me this works lol.
I hope this did something for someone somewhere, peace.
drugs
Other
if you have drugs everyday you can die and get sick
Do you hold the key to closed doors?
Western Canada
Who is holding this key? Drugs can lock doors forever. Doors to
a career path, doors to opportunity and doors to success. There really
is no easy way out, everyone faces at some point in their life,
pressure and temptation. Allow me to use a REAL example, I was very
addicted to drugs, so I thought. When in reality I was using them as a
coping tool. You may have your own reason for drug abuse, but there is
a reason in every situation. Who doesn't have issues, problems and
conflict? Only in fantasies such a person exists. Drug abuse does not
change anything, it only tricks you into believing "everything is going
to be okay", or "I don't care". Once I quit drugs I noticed a variety
of changes in my lifestyle, attitude, decisions and personal thoughts.
Not much long after I began realizing I was remembering more
conversations I had and I suddenly felt a push of determination and
motivation. As time passed I learned who I really am, who my real
friends are what what the future can hold for me. Do not close your
doors, always have choices and make the right decisions.
I just wanted to end this with a quote I found inspirational.
" One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays,
should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and
think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for
yourself."
You don't have to.
Central Canada
I always thought I was completly fine. Everyone I hung out with
smoked weed. I mean everyone, and if they didnt smoke it, I got them
too. It was so normal to me it was just drinking water or eating
lunch. I always thought I was okay. The truth is that it's so not
okay. I was not okay, it wasn't normal. So many people told me that
it was normal it wasn't addictive, well it is. When I was in grade 7
or 8, I can't really remember very much because I was always so high, I
remember taking my first hit. It was with my older brother and I can
remember nothing happening, I didn't think it was a big deal. So I started smoking more, when I got to highshool I smoked weed
once a week all through the first semester of grade nine, I got more
and more of my friends to smoke it with me. I convinced people that it
was fine, that it was normal. Then the second semester of grade 9 I
started smoking it everyday. I needed marijuana so bad that I would
steal money or tell my mother that I was hungry and spend the money on
weed. I almost never ate anything. I never went to school. By the
late fall of grade ten, I smoked more than 3 grams a day. I would get the drugs any way I could;
flirting, having sex, hanging out with anyone who smoked. I had to
quit my job because I wanted to get high. I stayed in my room all day
everyday, I couldn't go downstairs in my own house because I was so
high I didn't want my mother to see me. My friends would come into my
room and bring me weed and smoke it with me. I would wake up in the
mornings and know I had to go to school so I would toke, and then I
wouldn't go, I would jsut wake up a few hours later. I was
the biggest pothead anyone knew. It was horrble. I dropped out of school in grade 10, didn't care because I was
high. I got kicked out of my house when I was 16 and I didn't care
because I was so high I didn't get cold or hungry. I would sneak back
into my house early in the morning to get high then pass out. I
thought I was completly fine. Then one day when I was getting high at
a friend's I blacked out 3 times and gave myself a concusion. I had
blacked out before but this was different. I didn't go to the hospital
but I was so scared. I told myself after that, that I would quit
smoking marijuana, but after 1 day I smoked it again. I was so
addicted I would shake if I didn't get it. So much for it being
non-addictive. Then 6 months ago I started throwing up blood and
everytime I smoked cigarettes or weed my stomach would burn untill I
couldn't stand. My doctor told me I had a stomach ulsur. I quit
cigarettes and it was no big deal but for weeks after I was told about
my stomach I continued smoking weed. It would hurt so much but I
couldn't stop. Finally I had to cut down, the pain in my stomach was
so bad I couldn't get out of bed. I still smoked sometimes but
everytime I did, I would shake and seize, my body was used to getting
high all day and it wasn't taking kindly to being reminded that I
couldn't. A little while ago I took my last hit, it
hurt, now I havn't smoked weed in a few months. I feel better about
everything, I don't fight with my mom anymore and I have a relationship
with my Dad again. Everytime I think about how I used to be I feel
sick, even now writing this I feel as though I need to throw up. I was
sick, I was addicted, I was stupid. I thought I was fine. So many of
my friends think they're fine, I can see they're not. I can't explain
to people that if they quit smoking marijuana they will feel better.
Maybe you don't even believe me now, but I know that if you call
yourself a stoner, if you think your fine and you smoke marijuana; your
not fine. If you quit you'll see. If you never start you won't have to
go through what I did. Now I remember everything I tell
people, I remember partys. I feel smarter, that
sounds stupid but I do. It ruined my life for a long time, even now
things aren't the way they could be, I've gone to 3 different schools
in the last year and I still can't remember a lot of nights from when I
used to get high. But now I'm happy. And now I can see that I wasn't
okay. I'm 17 and I was the biggest stoner anyone knew. I hate marijuana
I hate it. Now
the smell of it makes me sick. It makes me sick because I want it but
I know I can't. I can't go back to being dead. If you smoke marijuana
you don't have to, tell your friends you can't, tell them your on
probation tell them your sick.
People still think I'm cool and I'm clean. And now I actually like
myself as much as everyone else does. I still hang out in the hood, I
still have a good reputation. You don't have to smoke weed.
weed
Other
wow all my life i was told drugs are bad. my dad is a cop so
drugs and alcahol where always kept away. grade 6 was the first time i
trid weed, i am in grade 10 now and every penny i can scrounge is use
for the herb. frends left, my life has left, my soul has left.
My mom saved me, Dont know why but she did.
Atlantic Canada
Hello(:
Im turning 15, and addicted to nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, hash, oil,
and extasy.
I started abusing in grade 7 when a friend offered me "Just a drag" of a ciggarette. What I thought then was just me being a kid, getting ready to becom a teen, turned out to be my worst nightmare. I was then introduced to Mary Jane. For those of you who think, its a plant, it won't hurt, Im not addicted.. well let me tell you, all that can change.
I grew addicted to marijuana, so addicted when i couldnt get my hands on it I became, depressed, I wouldnt eat or talk to anyone. So after three day of (to me) torture, I decided it wouldnt hurt to skip class and go get stoned. After a few tokes.. I didnt feel so well. I also didnt know that alcohol makes you dehidrated and it will hurt when you have nothing in you except alcohol and drugs. I started to choke, so my friends helped me to the bathroom and thats where i stayed untill I was rushed to the hospital by my parents. After that trauma, I decided hey Im not dead yet, lets go get high! So I mixed alcohol, extasy, marijuana, and oil, to chase my next high! Not thinking about my family and REAL friends, I went to a boys older brothers house, whom I just met an hour before and decide hey.. Lets crash here! The next morning two cops were in the house, while my family was outside. And I thought dang.. whats next? The next day I decided hmm.. lets go get stoned to the bone! I was so stoned that day If I tryed to type this story it would be giberish. Maybe I did all this to cover my pain..
I lost my grandmother in grade 2, someone that i was close to who was only 2 years old died, then someone as close to be as a best friend and mother died, around two weeks later my grandfather died. Im not particularly close to my father, infact I have said I hate you more than I love you to him (wich I cry over all the time.), or maybe its my selfasteem issues. What ever it is.. its no excuse, I made all those dessicions. It has been 2 days since I have done anyform of drug. For you maybe that is nothing, for me its an eternity, but can I tell you somthing? I have said I love you (and meant it) over a billion times to my whole family.
The point I am telling you this story is maybe because, I want you to learn its not as cool as alot of people say.. maybe I want you to feel sorry for me, maybe I just want to let it out, and this was the opportunity.. But what I know that I want you to take away from this.. my family was always there. Friends may come and go.. But family.. thats forever. And I used to think I wasnt worthy of their and gods love. Its sad to think that it took that much for me to realize they love me. Please learn from my mistakes. Dont follow them, they arnt a manual.
no thanx
Western Canada
A few months ago, there where
these kids doing these drugs in my tree fort. a told them to get out
and that drugs are not right. There was about fave of them kids. then
the askedd me if a wanted some. A said no. and then they all started to
chant at may sayen try it try i try it try it!!!!!! it was alot of
pressure for may. but then a said no and walked away. i
am fourtain and that is my story.
He was My Best Friend
Atlantic Canada
I was best friends with this guy I knew since grade 4. We
kind of drifted apart but then some how we seemed to get back insync
with each other now that we are in college and I see him from time to
time.
I was at a birthday party that was for two of my good friends, and a lot of people came over. I was surprised to see him. Sometime into the night when we were all feeling pretty good and going to go out to celebrate further, my friend and I were talking in a corner of the room. That is when he offered me some weed.
I was shocked. I was so terrified. He told me that everyone experiments in college and that it is ok. In a way, he could have made me or he could had tried harder to persuade me. He is quite an intimidating person and he is a lot bigger than me.
But, aren't your friends supposed to have your back? Protect you?
I tripped over my tongue saying "No I can't" over and over, but I was so unnerved by the encounter, what else could I say? I knew lots of people who have tried drugs and I have seen them. But It was the first time someone had ever tried to pull me in, let alone it being someone I TRUSTED.
I never did them. And I do not want to see someone who was once such a good person turn into someone that is going to hurt other people, the way they hurt me or anyone else. Sure, you may be curious, you may say everyone does it, you might even say you can stop any time or that you are just bored and wanted to try something new, but life is so much more than this. You just have to realize that drugs will not do any good, you are the key factor in how your life goes. Please don't pick the choice to use drugs.
dont ever do this
Western Canada
okay i started smokin when i was in my home country
and then i kept doing it and then i got into alot of fights withmy
parents that i almost got kicked out and then when i came here i
started marajhana and then my mom told me it was either marajhana or my
familt andi picked marajhana and then she kicked me out of the house
and then i seeked help by going on www.not4me.ca and now im clean and i
am better then ever and doing good in school and i found a desent jobs
and im glad i didnt turn out to become a addict in the future
Release
Other
Sitting in my room, smoking a blunt, it was just that type of
summer day. I was writing a piece of music and decided my best Kush
would release the talent within. Suck after suck, I started to isolate
myself from the world really get into my music. The sad part is I
never got anything done, as a matter of fact I had broke my prize
guitar. I got off my high and cried for a bit, a mood swing I guess. My
guitar was gone! Please guys, don't be foolish, drugs will mess you up
and others around you.
i dont take drugs
Central Canada
i dont smoke or chew but i i learnt how bad drugs
are. i am 11yrs. old and i want to tell u guys how f***n bad smoking is or chew or
any other drug its stupid. when u take drugs it goes to your brain and
damages it,marijuana is somthing that effects your whole body. if u guys start it again u will be effected by results, yes i
know im a brainiak. DO NOT TAKE DRUGS!!! its
dumb.please learn from this message and obbey rules and dont be a pain
or SMOKE ITS STUPID!!! thank you
and have the best life you can ever ok take care and listen to your
parents and make sure you learn from this
bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dealers nextdoor
Other
About 9 years ago now i smoked my first joint. I
knew about pot for a long time. My father smoked it with the neighbours
and he tried to hide it from us but we all knew ( we as in me and my
bro's). Anyhow a couple of years went on and we continued to smoke our
joints, bongs and poppers. I ended up getting curious about other drugs
and sure enough picked a choice and started on it. That choice was
Extasy. Now im smoking joints and doing Extasy. There was alot of
fighting going on at home between my parents, always fighting and
yelling so anything to get away from it I did. I loved both of my
parents. My father was a free spirted man who was very lienlent with us
boys and my mother was really strick as she should of been with the
kids she had. So once I was on the Extasy I started comiting crimes do
get it. We had a neighbour across the street who where very close
friends. We always had a good time and they were likea second family.
My addiction grew so bad that I took the house key they trusted my
family with for emergencies and sure enough went over and cleared there
house of everything. I had a dealer a my local highschool who would
give me grams of pot per dvd and or a pill of extasy. Also different
varies among different items that i had. Police started investigating.
I stole electronics to the simpilest things as silverware and even there canoe! Mind you before i stared smoking pot i was a excelent kid, no troubles just a normal boy out catching snakes with my buddies and chilling in the parks. So any how i was only about 15 years old when this happened and i was found that it was me who did this crime and i went to kiddie jail for about 4 months. Once released i got right back to the drugs. I was doing extasy about 4-5 times daily at about 2 pills eachtime. I was getting it from the most unthinkiable source you could imigine and it was cheap and always available. My father ended up getting into it with me about a year later. Dont remember how, oh we smoked a joint together started giving me joints and opend a whole new door which was the extasy. My mother knew what was going on after a while when i had a overdose one day and collasped on the front deck infront of her! My heart stopped and i was rushed to the hospital. I was in a coma for 2 weeks. My extasy days were over. Time past and i was doing no so much better. I was still smoking weed and still partying and doing bad things. I ended up becoming a break and enter expert and home invasioner. I did this for booze and weed. In one day i robbed 3 homes and one being a home invasion. Sure enough i was caught and did a year in a security facility. Once released i ended up turning to pure crime and drugs yet again along with my younger brother who was fully involved in this with me. My mother clued in and one day just left. She could not handle the stress of detectives coming to the house almost on a daily baiis because of various crimes like armed robberies and home invasions to simple break and enters. Me my brothers and my dad left and got a 3 bedroom apt. ( this all leads up to drug use, lying to the wife hiding ills and doing drigs with your kids.) we had a home a nice pool a dog and a great family untill drugs came in play from me, my dad and my brothers. So were i was befor we lost all that my mom moved on and got a bf who she is no married to and me and my brothers lived with my dad. A new drug comes in play now and a very dangerous one. Oxy's! Crystal Meth, and Crack. All was being done on a daily basis. Me though i tried the crack did nt so much like it, tried the meth did nt so much like the neither but the Oxy's oh boy i loved them! My father was selling everything he owned to get these oxy's and was a definite addict. He was a skilled welder but was always high. Because he was always high we ran wild. Parties at the apt everyday, drinking and drugs everyday. The only time there was a break is when we went to jail which was quiet ofton. Aventually we were kicked out and moved. This is where the worst comes in play. We moved into a place locally known as the conrete jungle. This place was full of the worst kinds. Criminals, Drug addicts/dealers everything that was against the law lead to here or took place here. Right above us a Oxy Dealer, to the right a cocaine, extasy weed dealer and above us on the top floor another weed dealer. On the fourth and second floors was the " User's spots" a few apartments where the drugs were in play. Our neighbour's introduced us into cocaine. The worst addiction that has ever happened. Took one time and that was it, the me everyone knew me as was GONE. I was a crazed high out of my mind cocaine dealer/ user within weeks. As this went on i had met many people and found out i had cocaine dealers living everywhere around me amongst the crack dealers. It was a non stop supply of this powerful drug. Anyhow i was sniffing up running on no sleep for weeks at a time. I did nt give a f--k about nothing, i cant even explain how bad it really was it almost is haunting me just trying to explain this to you about how much damage and lies and effect's to people i was doing. I was lieing to people that cared about me such as my mom who is the most nicest smartest kindest women in this world. I love you mom if you read this by chance. But just to get money to support this habit. I ended up putting my dad through pure hell he was so depressed almost to the point of death. Literly. i cant tak no more about it but i can assure you it was bad. Police started investigating why they were getting so many complaints about the number of people coming in and out of my place daily. They started wwatching my house.
I was so fried out of my head all the time that it did nt even phase me about police watching me did nt even notice, until one day when i did. For some reason i paniced phoned my mother up and started yelling at her at the top of my lungs sayign" whyd you rat me out to the cops" there following me everywhere! meanwhile she had no idea what i was talking about and no idea i even did coke considering i never went to see her. Now she knowes and hers and I relationship is pretty well ended. I started losing everything. My girlfriend my friends my family absolutly everything. The police had enough evidence on me and it was over. I was so f'd up anyways on coke weighing only maybe 100lbs in weight strung out on weeks of no sleep or eating and it was time for me to go back to jail. I did time and got help while i was in. Slowley but surley i thought i was doing better. I got released and went to live with my dad again. The drug use continued but the coke was outta my life almost fully. I started to e again still smoking weed and drinking. My father lost his job after a while. The time came where everyone went there own ways. Me, I built up my relationship with my mother threw jail and i ened up being able to move in with her. A very nice home and back to a normal life. I can tell you what a f'd up trip it was. This is all within 3 years 4 tops, i dont remember alot of things and everytime i write or thing or talk about it my stomach hurts from embarasment, and what i have lost and what i have done to the people that i most cared about and who most cared about me. Now i am doing great, i am back in school at adult programs. I am almost actually graduated. I met a bautiful girl and have been with her for a year and a half now. There has been no drug use since. I feel that there is perminent damage down to me. I have high anxiety, sometime feel very depressed, i have lost almost completley my sense of humor but at least i got my life. Thank you for reading my stroy and please learn because no you no and i wish i would of known back then what i do now! THIS IS A REAL STORY AND NOT THE FULL STORY EITHER. JUST THE BASICS OF IT. stay clean guys.
I remember when...
Other
I remember when that guy asked me if i knew anyone who wanted any e. drugs were a new thing to me then. i was disjusted by the taste of weed. but was curious of the unusual highs you could get from drugs. i was hooked on doing e for a very long time, and i never really realized what it did to me. i had extreme mood swings, making home hard to handle. my memory was going down the drain, to tell you the truth i dint remember what i had for supper last night or the night before. i always thought all my friends were dumb for telling ME i was dumb for doing it. i felt like i was ontop of the world. then i started realizing how incredibly ugly i looked when i was on it. and how stupid i acted. I want people to know, e may seem REAL cool, you just need to realize all the bad things that happen when you do it, for example: you dont know whats in the pills your doing, and it probably isnt what you think it is that your doing. those chemicals aren't meant to be put into your body, thats why you feel weird. think of how your family and loved ones would feel if you suddenly overdosed. and it doesnt matter whether you take one or 5, you still dont know what your getting.
Being Hooked on Drugs...
Western Canada
Iv learned in my years, that drugs are not cool. You may think
they are at first, but they arent. I am addicted to xxx pills. It
is not a fun thing to be hooked on either, when you withdrawal, it is
the most horrible feeling in the world. I wouldnt wish it upon anyone.
Not even my worst enemies. I am 22 years old and I have two children
under the ages of 3. I am now helping myself get off xxx because
I want to better my life, and anyone who is addicted to drugs I think
should try to better their lives also. Thank you for your time and
consideration.
The druggies
Central Canada
Of course, I have some classmates who take drugs. And I can see
the effects it has on them right before my eyes. These people come to
class late, with their eyes bloodshot and smelling like pot. They do
not pay attention in class and seem to always be in their own world,
isolated from everyone else. Their grades are bad and they are not
interested in anything. They don't have passion for life. They act
cool but I know that on the inside they are not well, physically and
mentally. For them, all that matters are the drugs...the drugs...the
drugs...the very things that are ruining their lives. Now, why would
you want to get into that??
how my life got wrecked because of drugs
Northern Canada
okay so heres how it all started. one night there was a party at
my bestfriends house, so obviously i had to go. my mom told me to be
safe and specifically stay away from drugs or alcohol. i arrived at my
friends house before anyone was there. after about an hour all the
people were there and thats when it started getting bad.. people had
brought drugs and everything, they were all doing it outside and my
friend came and grabbed me by the arm and told me i should go chill
with him outside so, i did. some other guys offered me and my friend
drugs so we just said, hey what the hell its just one time. but i was
wrong after that day my whole life was wrecked. all i could think about
was doing drugs all day, i would go to school come home get high, or
baked. forget about homework go back to school the next day and get
marks taken off every time i didnt do homework. by the end of the
school year i had failed, no one except the people i did drugs with
knew why i was doing so bad in school. not even my mom had found my
secret stash in my room, how sad is that. and it wasnt perfect at home
either. i found myself getting in more trouble there too, i would
always run off to a friends house but sooner or later i would have to
leave and go home. so one night i had just gotten home and my mom and
dad were standing at the door holding a bag of something in their hand,
i couldnt see that clearly since i was already sort of baked. as they
slammed the door shut behind me i then realized the probably found my
drugs. by then i knew i was gonna be f'ed. they pulled me into the
living room, and they kept going on about how they couldnt believe i
would do something like this. they threw all of it out, grounded me for
a whole year! which meant, no cell phone, no hanging out, no computer,
no tv, no anything! in other words, all i had to do was homework or
study, so i decided i might as well just stop doing drugs because im
just gonna get caught again, and get grounded.. again. by the time that
year had passed i went back up to a B+ average. and i had really
cleaned up, i lost a few friends because i kept refusing to do drugs.
but now that i look at them i think wow. i actually did that, im
f'ing stupid. it has wrecked their life so much i mean maybe they
havnt gotten caught yet but, every night they are out on the streets
doing drugs and its just disgusting. i found a whole new group of
friends that are so much cleaner and better for my life. my family
actually loves me now. so i hope everyone can read this and just think
how messed up your life can get from drugs... even if you dont get
caught you should still realize that you are messed up and doing the
completly wrong thing because when you grow up all your going to want
to do is drugs and sit on your couch at home. so please, dont do drugs.
because this is a completely honest story and just writing about it
makes me seem like a freak considering i used to be one of them(people
who do drugs)
Overdoses
Central Canada
ive taken every drug that there is to know from crack to weed,
every thing u can possibly imagine and im here to tell anybody that
reads my story not to do it. i f'ed up my life and now for all the
drugs my body is giving up on me and the doctors say that im not the
best shape and it could be lethal.
There is hope
Atlantic Canada
It all began in grade 8...The first time I got drunk, the first
time i got high, the first time i smoked a cigarette. At the time I was
going through a lot of stuff. I was being pushed down and bullied at
school, I had a boyfriend but our relationship was completely
dysfunctional, and I was dealing with psychological problems and was
feeling suicidal. Once grade 9 rolled around I was completely lost.
Then I met the people I would go on to calling my "best friends". They
were also the more quiet group, we were all new to the school and no
one knew anyone. We started going to lunch together and one day the
question came up. Who does drugs?. I answered that I smoked weed but
have never tried anything else...just then one of the guys pulled out
coke...he told me that if we did it at lunch the teachers wouldn't
notice afterward, I didn't hesitate one bit and willingly did it. The
next month i was using cocaine and ecstasy frequently and noticed i was
spending too much money. I was stealing from my parents...I knew i was
going to get caught so I asked my friend if there was anything i could
get that was cheaper but just as affective..then i was introduced to
ketamine. The first time I did it I hated it, I felt sick, I was
throwing up, it was horrible...but for some reason I kept using it...I
used it everyday for the next 4 months. Then one day me and my friends
got together and decided that we would kick our habit and that it would
be the final time doing k..next thing i know i woke up in the hospital,
i was told my brain had swelled up and when they ran a drug test they
found basically everything possible. I also faced charges associated
with drugs and had to go to court..Soon I was in drug counseling. After
a month passed i realized how much i was missing out on because of
drugs. My marks in school went up, my original friends wanted to see me
again, and I myself was happier. From then on I was clean..I have had
lapses in using but ultimately i know that being clean is the best
choice for me. If you are struggling with drugs and you may think you
need help, reach out and get it before it is too late, it's worth
it..although it may seem like the worst thing living without drugs but
you will see that you are not the only one battling drugs. I made tons
of new friends who treated me better than any others had before, they
cared and they were always there for me. It's a safe community and it
is great! Just remember there is hope no matter what you think.
Trying Something New
Central Canada
I was only 13 and my bf was telling me to try marijuana so i did
and to my surprise i liked it! Then
my friend told me to shoot up heroin i tried and I almost died. It was
a good thing they missed my vein. I had an allergic reaction to heroin.
From that day forward i promised my bf i would never do drugs again.
I'm 18 now and I'm getting married and I'm pregnant with a baby girl.
My life is much better now that I'm drug free.
Forever saying no to drugs
Other
hi. my drug addiction has completely changed my life. i was the
most respectable girl in my small community up until the age of 12. i
achieved high grades, i attended church and was involved in many church
programs. We were
well-off and things for my family seemed like things would never turn
sour. we were set. for life. until a turn of events.
By the age of 12 my perfect world was shattered when i caught my mother cheatin on my dad. After all these years of learning about god and living a pure life stopped holding any meaning to me. a year later my dad remarried. my new step-brother introduced me to marijuana. yes! i loved it.
by the age of 14 it seemed like my relationship with my dad had changed (i resided with my dad after the divorce). he started makin comments, 'u r like ur mother' and he would occassionally slap me around a bit. hm. i felt like i had no home and no real shelter. no protection. i felt scared. i needed to escape. the last place i wanted to be was home.
after this. i started using many different drugs. mushrooms, ectasy, cocaine, and crack. my bf at the time was also into his drugs. by the age of 17, i had a serious cocaine addiction. (very hard to overcome btw) this is the part of my life that shames me the most. i would come home either high or coming down and start huge violent arguements with my family. my behaviour scared my lil brothers. I would hit my dad. (this pains me lots that i would actually physically hurt someone i loved) i was outta control. i needed to snort coke everyday. i worked constantly to keep up with my addiction. i would 'quit'. but really. i couldnt. i just tried to hide it better. weird. it was like i thought i was fooling myself. it felt like if no one knew that i was using the drug then i had actually successfully quit.
anyway. i moved after i graduated. (yes i finished high school) and of course, like every girls dream, i moved in with my bf. we moved to the city. with a coke addiction. fun. my bf as it turns out, was extremely physically abusive. i tried hiding my bruises when i went to work. people would ask me if he was abusive. he was but i lied. what else was i suppose to do? i continued to use coke, as well as other drugs along with this. and then it happened. i was preganant. i was 18.
it was the first time in years i had ever been able to be sober. pregnancy. the only thing that got me off coke. when i was 8 months pregnant, i caught my bf cheating on me. in my home. in my bed. nice. i know how to pick them eh? i left him. baby was born. and then it started. again
this time around it was different. i would 'never' touch coke again. but being 19, not pregnant no more. time to celebrate right? i started drinking. at first it was only on occasion but soon it was outta control. the worst part was i was drinking around my son. eek. bad idea.
within months child protective services was at my door. and i was charged for stealing money for my work place. ( obviously lost the job) and of course the money was booze. i moved again.
and here i am. my son is 7 months. (sleeping in the next room, so cute!) i have drove myself to debt, i have disappointed my family, i have almost lost my son. ok. so here we go again. its not about saying no to drugs. its about always saying no to drugs. its a process. a choice. for every time. for every moment. i wont ever be the same because of drugs. but lets see if i can turn this into something good.
Pot controlled me.
Western Canada
First off when I was using weed it was fun for a little bit but
after awhile it started to control me like i have to go out and smoke
it every day kinda thing.
The reason why i used weed was because i was trying to escape reality
and everyone and it was mostly the music tha was making me do it at the
time which was rap.
I have a new addiction that it is my friends is video games and
friends.
It sucks smoking weed because i was really paranoid all the time and it
wasent worth my time i was high all day and it really never got me
anywhere in life.
So i finally quit after a month and got myself a full time.
now my addiction is still friends and video games.
So remember if you eveb think about smoking weed dont do it.
With my story I really hope i can change someones life now that would
be amazing.
Thanks for reading my story
Never lie or do something that you know you don't want to.
Other
I was walking home, when i seen the kids that were completely
opposite from me. I was wondering how they were so far down the
sidewalk when school just ended 2 minutes ago.
They ended skipping class and doing weed. When they came up to me there like "ehhhhhhhh <my name>" I said "hi" When they asked"you want some weed" I was scared. I didn't want them to hate me. I told them I smoked already yesterday. They said ok and left me alone. That was a bad choice because they ended up coming to my house the next day with more weed.
Never lie or do something that you know you don't want to.
Panic E-ttack
Atlantic Canada
I had been planning for weeks, and thought nothing could go
wrong. Me and me best friend were heading to a party and I was going to
do e for the first time. About three other people were gunna do it, but
I was the only E virgin.
It made my blood pressure even higher, which I know know was super dangerouse.
The effects started really good. Then I
realised how fast my heart was beating. I wondered if it was normal. I
hfelt it, and inwardly panicked. I had to rush outside and get some
frsh air. While I was out there, The walls started to move. I thought
this was normal. It is actually a sing of an overdose. I went back
inside, still with a fear in the back of my head. I thought if i didnt
stare at a specific spot on the wall, I'd have a panic attack. If
someone obstruckted my view, I would sternly ask them to move. I ended
up on the couch the hole night, unable to sleep becase when I closed my
eyes, I would see things.
I am very lucky I had good friend who were with me every step of the
way. The sence of panic was disgustiing.
The next morning, after I had slept for less than an hour, I was still
panicky.
So yes, it started off awesome, but once the bad thoughts were in my
head, I could not get them out.
I was foolish enough not to get informed. Hopefully, others will.
never try drugs
Other
well i never did drugs.but i no one thing there not cool ok.so
wat if 3 guys or girls say you have to. you no that somtimes bad
things happen like you could go to jail or somthing.drugs are not cool
dont try them
Never too late
Western Canada
Back in high school I allowed myself the influence of others, my
friends were always doing drugs and smoking cigarettes, one day I
decided to try it little did I know that was the first step to being
hooked, from that day on I kept smoking everyday and doing the drugs,
then came the end of my high school years, and looking back at what I
have done I wasn't proud at all, my grades were going down and chances
of me getting into university was slim, but lucky for me I got accepted
into university and changed my life around for the better. Now that I
still have friends in high school and a younger sister I always tell
them...stay away...it'll hurt you bad!
say no to drugs say yes to ur life
Other
When i did drugs i waws hurting myself and my family you dont
wwantto hurt urself or family . it will kill them on the inside but
u'll lose all ur friends say no to drugs and say yes to ur life
peer pressure
Central Canada
i did weed one time with a bunch of people a few months ago. i
was so scared i did not want to do any 5 minutes later i asked them to
pass it to me i did a few puffs. the
second time me and a few friends went outside during school my best
friend told me to take some when they weren't so i did. they were
telling me to keep it inside me for a long time. when i
got back to class i was seeing things, the world didn't feel real... but is that really worth it? i got suspended
since i got caught by my teacher and i stood up for everyone else and
said it was just me, imagine how embarrassing that is telling your
principal and your parents that. i wish i never did. i know you think its
cool but it really isn't.
Say, "No Thanks"
Western Canada
I am a 21-year-old, going to university with a great career
lined up for me. Why? Because I said "No Thanks" when it came to drugs
in high school.
I was a depressed kid from a very low income immigrant family. I always had troubles fitting in. I hung out with the pot-heads of my school for three years. I drank and partied quite a bit, but when it came to pot, I would always make up excuses. Same with cigarettes - they smell and taste disgusting plus they are expensive - they make absolutely no sense.
By saying no every single time, I encouraged my best friend to say no as well. Together, we would go to parties and support each other when it came to saying no to drugs. It really helps when there is someone there beside you, who stands by you. Don't get me wrong, we had a lot of fun in high school, but unlike the others, we didn't need to be high to have fun.
To this day I am proud of myself - I feel empowered. I believe that I am a very strong individual, and I am excited that I was able to say no so many times. Eventually, I would get offered a toke, but I would quickly get skipped in the circle, because everyone knew I'd say no. Now, I am the hot successful chick, who doesn't have bad breath, yellow teeth, and a beer belly.
As the years went by, the rest of our group of friends got into worse habits and today they are all into hardcore drugs. They sneak into the bathroom to do a line of coke, which is extremely low and pathetic. They always claim they can stop any time they feel like it, but they just don't feel like it - EVER. They are hooked, and they will be hooked for a long time to come. All of their money goes towards their addictions. One of the guys' noses is eaten out. It's disgusting. They are all disgusting.
I keep in touch with them through my best friend, who is still close with them, and they are just the biggest losers ever!
So, the moral of the story is: Stay high by not stooping low! Seriously. You won't regret it.
Daddy
Central Canada
On January Xth, I received a phone call from my Grandma.
"Your Dad passed away this morning," she said softly.
I hadn't been living with my Dad because of his alcohol and drug abuse. He was addicted to crack cocaine. With the words my Grandma spoke, I was lost. I was hurt. I couldn't help but not to believe her, it just wasn't right. I knew my Dad had a lot of problems, but he seemed invincible.
A few days later was his funeral. The hardest thing was having to see him in his casket and saying goodbye to my Daddy for the last time, at 14 years of age. This was the first time I had seen him in 6 months, and it was at his own funeral. I wrote a eulogy, or a remembrance speech, to recite at the funeral to tell our family and his friends how much his life meant to me. He wasn't a very good father, seeing as he was a drug addict, but he was still my father.
I realize now, about 2 months after his death, it wasn't easy for him to clean up his act. (By the way, he died from an overdose of crack and alcohol.) Even before his death, I always stayed away from drugs and alcohol, but now it's a real slap in the face. I can say that my own father died from doing such things and I don't want the same thing to happen to me, since I have dreams and goals for my life.
I hope this story can help anyone out there suffering from an addiction. Drugs are disgusting but very powerful things; they can kill even the most invincible of heroes. Think of what your addictions can do to your family. I lost a very big part of me because of drugs. Don't let that happen to you or your loved ones. Get help.
Candy
Western Canada
I find it interesting, reading the page about ecstasy and how it
supposedly doesn't make you physically dependant. That isn't actually
true. In my grade ten year I did MDMA for the first time. One time turned
into two, two times turned into once a month and by the middle of grade
11 I had done ecstasy almost every day for a year. MDMA doesn't yield
dependency? Bullcrap. Every single day single I quit has been a
struggle to stay clean. Every day I wake up and have to fight myself
not to spend my money on it. I have flashbacks even though I've been
off of it for 2 years. There are days when my cravings get so bad I can
hardly function.
Never For Me
Western Canada
I am a 17 year old student in school and have a full time
job with good pay. My drug use started at 13 when I started smoking
weed and dabbling with mushrooms. I then began drinking, and from there
I started doing E, acid, coke, ketamine, and just about every drug
except for meth, crack, and heroin.
In that time I have had many articles put up in the newspaper and I have completed the RAP program through high school and have half a year under my apprenticeship belt ready for me to continue once I graduate. I have had my lows with drugs, especially coke and alcohol, but I have overcome those addictions and have become a much better person because of it. Once you see yourself at such a low you can't bear to make that mistake twice.
death by drug...
Atlantic Canada
It was the start of a well planned out march break. A few
friends and i were going to party till we passed out. My parents were
going away for awhile and i was going to throw the most ballin party
ever. They left, out came the drugs (acid, mush, dope etc..) and into
me they went.
I was high as h--l, starting to go a bit crazy. One minute feeling great, the next thing i know, my parents are pulling in the driveway. As every other person would do, I started yelling at everyone to get out! They walk in the door, i panic and light the rest of the drugs on fire (no evidence). The only problem was, that i lit the curtains too. The house burnt down. I lost everything, including two of my friends, both my parents and my one year old sister. I am all alone now, and because of drugs.
What to do?
Other
I was 15 years old when my friend started laughing at a
party in the yard of his house. He had a bunch of friends with him and
i heard alot of sniffing. They called me over so i went and they held
out a tray with white powder. They asked me to just put my nose in the
tiny pile they formed with their fingers with the white dust all over.
Block one nostrile and snif in they told me. I told them no way as i
was not stupid and knew that, that powder was trouble. They said if i
wouldn't snif it to taste it. I yelled at them and told them to stop.
They took the back of my head and tried to get it near the tray but i
kicked them in the knee and marched off. They next day at school they
asked me why i was avoiding them. THEY DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER!!! that was
how high they were. I have not talked to them for 1 year now and my
friend is now drug free!!
(Dont.. Smoke 'Em If..)
Western Canada
Well, my story here, is really a more honest comment about my
last story. I've been a recreational marajuana smoker most of my adult
life. I recently discovered that I have a mild anxiety disorder. This
is related to a 'short gene' condition, that I now see I've had my
whole life. In my case, I've used marajuana to -unknowingly- alleviate
the symptoms; and ultimatly as a coping mechanism. Doing this means
that being away from 'weed' is very unpleasant, with withdraw effects
combined with unresolved anxieties. Anyways, I've taken steps to
address these issues lately(with support from government programs).
I'm in my mid 40's now. Its certainly better to be healthy, and spend
your time helping other people. Hard to do if your too stoned too
often. And of course, it's illegal. I'm glad I've never had a run-in
with 'the law'. Your sure don't want a
drug-related charge on your record, especially nowdays. Marajuana has
gotten too much part of other things; like on the 'not4me' ads. I'll
just have to take time out for other things for awhile now. I suppose
there's a time for everything.. All the best to you.
drugs.. are they really worth it??
Other
Im 15 and only in grade 10. I was chilling at my friends house,
was going to watch movies and just have a good time. That was far from
what we truely did. I remember getting there and my friends brother
came downstairs truely excited because their parents were going out and
he was going to have a party.
All his friends came over and they brought 24 pack of beer, and other hard liquors. The party started. But then they pulled out the weed.
That was the first time I ever tried it. Ever since then, ive changed so much in so little time. Ive found myself randomly thinking about how i wanna get high again, and just over obsessing. The rest of that week, i smoked weed every lunch at school. People say it isnt addicting, but it is. Even when im not high I can stare at something and i can feel my mind just drain out (its hard to understand, but thats what it truely feels like).
Ive lost friends because of this...
Now ask yourself is weed truely worth it?
Its not all the same
Western Canada
By trying just marijuana, 3/4 of all people going to try
stronger drugs in the future. It's sure, I've been there.
My best friend dead.
Western Canada
We've been bestest friends since we were 3 years old. And we just
started the year grade 8. Grade 8 was really good so far until my best friend
made some new friends. We were were still friends but she acted
different, she dressed different, she started getting detentions a lot,
and her grades slipped from straight A's to C's . I was worried about her, so i called her. I asked her why is she been so different
lately? Is there a problem or anything? And she wanted to tell me
something but she didn't know when was the right time to say it. So i
told her that when she's ready she can tell me. So the next day when we
were on the bus, my best friend told me that she was doing drugs. When i heard
that, i was shocked and disappointed in her. The whole time on the bus
i didn't talk to her at all . When we were in school , I asked her a
question if she wants to keep on doing drugs or does she want to be my
best friend. And she said that if you don't like who I've be come now,
then i guess our friendship is over. When i heard those words i cried
my eyes out. I didn't know what to do. I lost my best friend. A month
later she was still doing drugs. Yes i miss our friendship, but i
did make some new friends but that can not replace her. I know that
the best friend that i knew for a long time is still there. I'd try saying
hey to her in the hallways but she never replies. I try to not make her
get in trouble a lot like taking all the blame for my self and making
her innocent. Whenever i do that she smiles and she laughs that i
did that for her. If she's happy then I'm happy. But what i don't know
for sure is that if that was a real smile. The next day,
she was absent. I was scared, I didn't know what to do but cry. I
was scared that she was dead because of the drugs. I kept on saying
that she is going to be okay but then, our teacher came in and
started crying too. She said that my best friend is dead! I cried my eyes out
even more, why did you start doing drugs ? Why? Why? I felt
like dying I wanted to die. She is my best friend, without her my
life wouldn't be that happy anymore. She more just then a friend, she
like a sister to me. And when she's gone, my heart isn't complete
because she's gone. But what i will always cherish is all the fun,
and happy times we had together in the past. :'( I love you best friend!
anyone wanna bun?
Central Canada
if your reading this, you've made a very wise choice. thank you
so much for choosing my story to read. when i started high school,
everyone smoked weed and ciggarettes, and i mean everyone. so when i
would hang out with my friends, they would always go out for a smoke,
and i would just be standing there. so eventually, i started trying
weed, then moved on to ciggarettes. i got so addicted that
whenever i would have ANY money, i would only spend it on weed. i
bought a pipe, and a bong and smoking took over my life. it was
HORRIBLE, i fought with my mom everyday, my marks dropped and i failed
some classes. all because i thought getting high with my friends was
cooler than going to class. until one day, i was in the catwalk by my
school buying a few grams, and my school cops drove by and seen. so i
RAN, SO fast and hid behind a car. my heart was beating so fast, and i
was so scared. they came running and found me, they searched me, found
the weed and put me in the back of the car. they arrested me, i got
suspended for 21 days, and kicked out of my house. so, i lived with my
friend for a month, and was completely sober. i tried to prove to my
parent's how sorry i was, and that i would never smoke again. because,
i hated myself for what i became. so, my parents let me move back in
and told me if i ever smoked again, i would be gone for good. so, going
through that experience made me think a lot about it, and i told myself
i wouldn't let drugs take over me anymore.. i have now been sober for 2
months and 6 days and i haven't felt better!
you'll lose. nobody wins.
Central Canada
Just last year, I was hanging out with my best friend and a few others. One of my friends, his older brother came out with a huge bong and tried to get us to do pot. I said no but, my best friend tried telling me it wouldn't kill me, nothing would happen. well, ever since that one night when i said no. she goes out and gets high with her boyfriend, and, we no longer talk to eachother even though we were raised together. She's into more than just pot now, and, she's overdosed twice already. Marijuana is just a starting drug, it'll lead to much more. And, you'll lose your friends and yourself. One thing I don't understand is, her mom didn't care. She let her do it. She was only 13 at the time, She's going to be 15 soon. Now, I'm going to be starting highschool next year, and, she's going to be there. I'm not scared of becoming a drug addict cause I know I can say no. I've already had to say no many times already. I'm scared of seeing what my once best friend has turned into.
Just try it , c'mon nothing will happen ...
Atlantic Canada
It was the day after my first report card . I passed everything
with flying colors . We decided to celebrate . We go for a
walk grab some subs and walk back . On your way we ran into our
friends. One of them had some weed and a pipe . He
asks us if we wants a draw . We decline , hesitantly . He keeps asking
" Just try it , c'mon nothing will happen ..." . They start calling us
chickens and other names , so we try it . We had one draw , then
another , then another . We keep having a draw until theres none left .
After we go back to my grandfathers . My friend eats and eats and eats . I
go all chill and mellow . It was okay when we tried it , so we did
again . At first it was just every frew weeks , then it got to every
weekend , and then every couple of days , up until we were using it
everyday . We didn't have enough money to keep us going so we would
steal , bump money off people , hurt people , just to get money . After
a few months my second report card came out , subjects that I loved and
did so well in I was failing . Since I started smoking weed , my grades
have been slacking . Thats when I decided to stop . My dad said he was
dissapointed in me and that hurt more than being sentenced to death . I
had to quit for my dad . Instead of using my free time to smoke I
started playing sports , I joined an art club , and army cadets . I was
doing good I hadn't done any in weeks . Then a friend asked me to buy
some , he said " buy some , c'mon buy some . " He wouldn't leave me
alone . I finally said no . He called me a wuss . It hurt when he said
that , but not as much as my dad being dissapointed me . I have gone four months without weed , my parents have
noticed , my friends and my teachers have all noticed . I'm
concentrating more ,spending more time with people I love , and I'm
generally A better person . All this can be avoiding by just saying NO.
out of control
Other
My story, just like most others, started with using marijuana.
it seems like nothing, and then i started thinking it wasnt even a drug
at all. so as expected it was time to move on, do something more
intense, more "fun". so i started experiencing with shrooms, salvia,
ecstacy, oxycontin and other pain killers, and they were all for fun.
then, the beginning of the end came along, cocaine. i did it one day
and from then on it was everyday for months, i didnt care about
anything else, i used my friends, stole my parents money and belogings
to sell, and everything to get it. i starting stealking alcohol and
selling it at school until i became known for it. worst came to worse
and i wasnt living at home, i was hoping from my friends houses. i got
to the lowest point when i did sexual things to get cocaine. finally i
went back to my parents, told them everything and moved to a different
city. i stoped doing coke, everyday.
My Role-Model
Central Canada
My big brother started doing drugs at the age of 13 i was really
sad when i found out.By the time he was 15 my mother had kicked him out
and he was now living with his father. then about 1 year
later he got into heroin ans coke and all the other stuff. So him dad
kicked him out.at the age of 16 he droped out of school and started to
sell them. he made up lies to try to get back into school on of the
lies were "My lil sis got hit and killed by a drunk driver thats why im
doing drugs" well i hate to tell you but im his lil sister! and im not
dead! i JUST want him to STOP but he wont listen to me!
What to do?
Never again..
Western Canada
It was in janurary and i was only 14, me and my best friend and
her 2 older cousins were rolling a joint up, my bestfriend asked if we
could try it, and she said 'okay sure but dont tell yur mom'. It was
late at night and we smoked 3-4 joints for my first time, i loved that
feeling and wanted more ever since. So after that i was at school and
my friends asked if i wanted to get high and i kept saying yeah, so i
contiuned to smoke weed. After i really liked this girl and she cheated
on me after a month of dating, i was totally heart broken so i started
smoking weed everyday and skipping class. I started fighting with my
mom alot and not caring wat she said or how my life was going downhill,
i started drinking during lunch at school. I ended up getting really
depressed and started cutting, after a while i started getting happy
again. But afterwards i ended up failing 3 classes. During the summer i
still continued to smoke and drink, half way threw the summer my mom
caught me one night with my friends and i was very intoxicated. The
next day, she picked me up and asked me wat went on, so i told her i
was caught in a dead end, my life of lying to my mom was done, she
ended up kicking me out and i didnt like that feeling, after a while
she took me back home, and i really didnt want to have that feeling
again. I came to relieze you dont need drugs to make yu happy, they
dont help yu, only makes wat yu think is better, worse. I hope everyone
can learn from this story that, its cool to say no to drugs. Its a
waste of money. You loss amazing friends, and you loss respect from
alot of peers that were really there for yu. Take my advice truly say
no, if people laugh. Think to yurself that one day they will be alone
and not happy. Im now 23 and i have an amazing job on my way to a
career path i will never touch drugs again, they only bring you down.
At the end of the day...
Northern Canada
I've never tried drugs. But I live in a decently small
community, so I speak from experience when I say that more than half
the teenagers here do them. Weed is the most popular, obviously... but
salvia, shrooms, they're up there too. Then there's the few who do LSD,
Ecstasy, Coke, etc. Either way, they're all drugs. And once you start
them, you'll always be that person.
You'll always be the same as everyone else; just like you wanted in the first place, right?
I'm halfway through highschool. And you know, I know that I'll be one of the few who's never tried drugs. The fact that I'll be different from everyone else makes it so much easier of a decision, at the end of the day. I'm respected for the choices that I make regarding drugs. If you're thinking of doing drugs; don't.
Look at who you want to be in 10, 15 years. If you see yourself in University or College, if you see yourself with a good job, perhaps a wife/husband or even a family, don't do drugs. Because those decisions you make when you're young, when you're "having fun", when you're "not caring", they will catch up to you when you're older. When you're on your own, when you're making a living for yourself.
I know people who are addicted to Pot. To smoking. They get bored of it too and are slowly transitioning to worse. I've talked to them, actually a few of them are my friends. They've all told me one thing that stuck out, that all of them had in common: their motivation, their perseverance to do something with their life after highschool was gone. They didn't reach for the sky, for incase they'd fall and land on the stars... no, they reached for the tree, I guess. Or a plant. But if we're speaking non-metaphorically, I'm saying that if they even decided to go to school, they didn't have high goals. DRUGS kill your motivation. DRUGS kill your self respect, too. Don't be like everyone else. Be the one who said no.
Be respected not for what you do but for what you don't do. And if you think you'll be respected for trying drugs, think about it. I mean really. Those people who you'll "fit in" with, they're just going to accept you for being like them. They're insecure, they're peer pressuring you because they want to feel accepted, too. They want to be surrounded by people who are just as screwed up as they are. But in a couple of years, when you're out of highschool, they'll be out of your life. They won't be there for you, they won't be there to help you pick up the pieces. The people who will matter will be the ones who've stuck with you, not the druggies you've smoked up with. The ones who've stuck with you, they'll respect you for your decision to stay away from drugs and be your own person, wether then your decision to do them and be like everyone else.
Don't Do Drugs. At the end of the day, you'll thank yourself.
Trust me, say no.
Western Canada
I was at a party with a few friends and one of them pulled out a
bag of DXM. He said it was the most powerful drug ever and I wanted to
look "cool" so i said, " yeah bro, ill do it". So i grabbed his bong,
and started smoking the crystals. It was extremely harsh and i should
have stopped there but all my friends were looking at me like i was
some sort of hero. I coughed up a lung and i sat there. About 5 minutes
later its when it started. I was plummeted into an imaginary world that
i couldnt escape. I saw my whole life flash before my eyes and it was
just wayy too real. I imagined I was in a plane crash and my whole
family was on the plane. i had to watch them all burn becuase i was
trapped in me seat. I then burned myself.. and I actually felt the
severe pain. This lasted me about 10 minutes apparently but it felt
like I led an entire life. My friends then said I was panicking and
screaming like a psycho whilst rolling on the floor. My friends havent
been able to look at me the same since then and its created a very
awkward barrier. Do not try drugs. I am 15.
Herpes
Other
When i was 9 years old my mom offered me some pot, i thought why
not if my moms doin it it must be ok. I smoked it, it wasnt unitill i
was done the whole doob that i she told me it was laced with coke. I am
now 15 and have been doing all sorts of drugs liek coke heroin ecstasy,
and pretty much w.e i can get my hands on. This one time i got so
f'd on meth that i thought i would die unless i f'd a this girl, so
i did. I found myself with a bad case of
herpes. I now regret smoking that first doob and now cant quit.
Personal Experiences
Atlantic Canada
OK, so we're all not perfect, and we made some mistakes in out
past's. I have tried Cocaine and Ecstasy and they really are dirty,
along with other drugs listed and not listed on this site. They really
screw with your head, emotions and really do affect the people around
you, but mostly you health. These are the real dirty dirt, and the side
effects were spot on. I have also smoked Marijuana for almost 10 years
(happily clean now for 2 years) and I would like to make something
clear about it. Never ever did or have I heard of people having
hallucinations smoking marijuana, and I've meet a LOT of smokers in
that 10 years. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying its OK to go out
and smoke marijuana or use any other drug for that matter, nor am I
praising it, but I think its time to tell the truth about this drug and
other drugs and stop using scare tactics to scare our kids. Sit down
with your sibling(s) and talk about it. Talk about past experiences if
you had one, or have a friend or anyone else that has actually tried
these drugs to talk about his or her experiences. Now you may think I'm
an idiot, but I know my facts.
Started doing drugs...
Central Canada
Started doing drugs when i was twelve. I always wanted to try
drugs becasue i was curious, but after i first time doing weed i wanted
to do it again. I could control my urges but a couple month later i did
extasy. It was probably the best time for the couple hours, but the
next day was a total crash. then i did extasy again and weed at the
same time. My mind was so messed up it felt like i was waking up from a
night mare every couple minutes. i got caught and i had to go to XXX.
Somtimes i still want to do drugs but im happy i stopped.
f'ed up night
Atlantic Canada
it was my birthday k i poped 3 ecstasys and i did 3g of coke i
still had my 20 pills and i got arrested . i was in juvie for 8 months.
thats jus to show how f'ed drugs can be
addicted
Other
it took 4 days to get addicted to chronic,pot,weed,the good
stuff , marijuana. It took 7 days to lose control
CIG to BOOZE to WEED
Northern Canada
I am a 14 year old boy and I think I may be addicted to
marijuana. I never thought it was really possable to get addicted to
weed but i just cant get enough of it, i feel like i can stop i
honestly do it doesnt seem that hard, but sometimes i just feel like i
wanna get high. i started off smoking cigarettes in
grade 5 when i stole one from my dad because i thought they smelled
good, i smoked it, i felt really cool so i stole some more. i
introduced my friends to cigarettes but they didnt like it. in return
they introduced me to getting drunk. i dont have an lcohol problem
though. one day the cops wre chasing this guy downtown and he dropped a
baggie, i expected it was some sort of drugs, yup it was. it was OG
Kush (weed) i made a joint and smoked it. i got so high the first time
i smoked weed. I later that day bought some weed from some guys.
I started...
Central Canada
I started smoking pot in grade 8, because my bestfriend was
doing it and I was a curious kid. I'm pretty mature for my age, and
responsible. I didn't know alot about weed though, and it was a
mistake to smoke it. I smoked weed maybe once every week or two weeks
with my friend. We didn't even know how to do it properly; I always
thought I was high but I never inhaled properly. One day I took
several big bong hits and I thought my lungs were on fire. My ears
hurt. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I was gone. I was so stoned I could
barely open my mouth, and this made me panic. I felt like I was
dreaming, or underwater, or somewhere I wasn't supposed to be. It was
like I was trapped in a body that didn't work properly and was slow,
yet my mind was racing. I kept fighting the high. It would come in
waves of intensity. I would sit there, telling myself I was fine,
slowly calming down..then I would feel like I was falling forwards, or
my arms would become numb. I felt so distant and far away from my
friend. I told him what I felt, and he just grinned and said "isn't it
sick?" I told him I hated it, but he just laughed. I convinced myself
it was one bad trip, and I would enjoy weed again. I smoked pot almost
every weekend throughout the second semester of grade nine with
mediocre experiences. Since then I had a couple bad trips, and it
caused me to become anxious alot. I'm not sure if it was from weed or
not, but I have had some anxiety problems since. It's not worth it,
stay away from drugs. Drinking beer is differnet, don't let people
tell you weed is safer. Weed really screws with your mind. Stay away
from drugs altogether.
What's the big deal right?
Northern Canada
It's weed what's the big deal right? Well let me tell you weed
is a drug and if you do smoke alot you can have a bad trip I had a bad
trip. I smoked a .5 not even a gram all to my self and I was feeling
happy then my friend taped my shoulder and I freaked out I blacked out
and I felt dizzy I had too sit down and when I did I started hearing
things I was scared and nervous then happy I felt like I was in a dream
I would snap back for two min then it all happend avian I was in some
kind of dream I cried and hit things it was not a good trip and it can
happen to u it lasted for three hrs I couldn't wait till it was going
to end . Weed is a serious drug just like any other and no it was not
laced other people smoked the same weed. I was upset before I went to
the party so I decided to have a joint to make me feel better it didn't
make me feel better I felt like I was in a nightmare my night was
he'll.
Weed runied me.
Western Canada
I started using pot at the age of 11. I smoked 5 Blunts a day
containing 6 grams of medical quaitly marijuana. When I would miss a
blunt session, I would start to have a mental breakdown, shake, sweat,
go into a rage, and want to kill myself. I am still addicted to
marijuana, I have moved up to 10 blunts a day with half a oz each. My
life runied because of this drug. I am currently under the influnece
and making proper sentence is hard. I am shaking now after reading the things on this
website, I am scared for my life because I have smoke weed so much.
Revelation
Western Canada
If you try it once, chances are you'll do it again. You try it
twice chances are you'll want it more. You try it again and again and
before you know it you've gone too far and you look in your rear view
mirror to find out where you went wrong and you suddenly realize what
you'd been told from the beginning was true! One bad thing leads to
fifty bad things. That goes for anything
D.R.E.A.M. dRUGS rUINED eVERYTHING aBOUT mE
Western Canada
I started smoking when I was 12 under the pressure of my
friends. I had been told it was a gateway for other bad things to come
but I told myself, "hey, I got this one right?" But sadly to say, it
was true. I began smoking pot socially to "be cool."
My parents divorced shortly after I turned 13; my mother left and i never saw her again. From then on I thought i was "headstrong" enough to take anything on. I started dabbling with meth at 13 and thankfully only tried it a few times and it never got a grip on me.
I didn't get out so lucky with cocaine. I was 16 when I tried cocaine for the first time. During this time period I had moved with my best friend. We were partying with cocaine & alcohol almost every weekend. But it wasn't enough; we wanted it more & more.
One night, we were sitting on our porch talking and she was telling me about her cousin who was an escort. We both thought the idea of it was repulsive but decided to give it a shot. We figured, "hey, if we don't like it, we leave right?" We began working at a local brothel (an indoor hooker strip) both of us 18.
At first, it was nasty and I hated it. But at the end of my shift when I counted out the 1000's of dollars I made it quickly exited my mind what I had done to get it. I figured," The heck with it, I'm using condoms, I'll be *safe*. The cash is wicked and I can leave whenever I want to." After a while though, the money wasn't enough to push out the thoughts of what I was doing. I began using cocaine every day to cope. I didn't think much of it because at the time, I wasn't spending all the money I was making on my habbit. I thought I had it under control. I couldn't have been more wrong.
I began making more money. I was going on out calls and living in a hotel room. By this time, I was almost 20 and had been using regularly since I was 18. I had begun snorting three 8balls a day just to be able to function, spending at least $6-700 a day. I began to realize what I was becoming and wanted out. I was talking to one of my drivers and pleaded with him to take me on the run with him. He was leaving town to hide from the cops. He agreed and we began dating. I found out after we left that he was married and was addicted.
I didn't think anything of it because I got what I wanted; to be away from the lifestyle I was in. I'd like to say that my story got better from here but it was just the opposite.
Coming off cocaine physically was not hard but emotionally I was a wreck. I was flooded and haunted by memories of what I had done for the last 2 years. I needed an escape. That escape came in the form of using other drugs. My boyfriend (the driver) was using heavily and I started stealing his pills. At first, I swallowed them but was enticed by the thought of the "needle high". I was addicted first hit. I was lost in time and the memories supressed. I remained a junkie for about a year until the day I woke up in my bathroom smelling of urine, feces and vommit with a needle sticking out of my arm.
I realised all I had done was switch addictions. My boyfriend & I moved back where we later split up. This was two weeks after I had gone and turned tricks to give him $2000 for a family lawyer to try & win his kids back.
I left & went and stayed at my sisters house. I went through severe withdrawls off of needles but eventually cleaned up & started working a regular job. I later found out I had contracted an std from my addiction to money & drugs. I had genital herpes and was devastated. I returned home mad at the whole world and began partying again with cocaine.
Eventually, I knew I was headed back towards needles and knew something had to change. I reached out to counselling and began living a sober life through support from friends & counsellors. I knew if I wanted to create a different life for myself I needed to change my atmosphere. I rooted out the friends I had, the places I hung out and the things I did. I had to find ways to live my life without drugs and alcohol.
The greatest regret I have is not listening to that one person who told
me that smoking was a gateway to other bad things. But hey, I had it
all under control. I wasn't going to become the drug addicted
prostitute ending up with an std right? Cause I had a grip on things &
I was being safe. I knew what I was doing and could stop anytime right?
WRONG
I didn't think it could happen to me.... do you think it can't happen to you?? You're not invisible.
My Life
Central Canada
I Was Once into the drugs reall bad. but things changed when i
got pregnant at 14. now im completly free of the hard stuff and i am
going back to school to become a child and youth worker to teach people
about my story and how it can benifit your life to be drugless. my
dream is to be a franchiser of walmart. hoprfully that will work some
day. so learn from my mistakes and stay away from the hard stuff!
Drugs Can Ruin Your Life
Western Canada
i'm writting because i don't want anybody to go down the same road i did
because it's not easy at all...i was a pretty well kept kid all through
elementary...as soon as i went to gr.7 and tured 13 i had been asked to
try smoking and well out of curiosty i did and oddly i liked it and
still to this day i do still smoke,a few weeks later i got asked to
smoke a joint with a few friends i knew what it was and what it did so
i tryed it and about everyday from that point on i smoked it,i did what
ever i could to get it,so all trough gr.7 and gr.8 i smoked and smoked
pot,the beggining of gr.9 i started doing ecstasy and i did it everday
about 15 times a day maybe more whatever i could get i would do no
matter what i had to do for it i'd steal,lie,fight and whatever else
you can imagine...ecstasy ruined my life i lost all respect from my
friends my best friend looked at me and my family hated me,and
so saying that i went into a depression state when i started running
away and sleeping at who evers house i could that night a few times i
stayed at some guys houses that i didn't even know and those nights i
wouldn't remember a thing i'd wake up the next morings half naked and i
couldn't seem to remember what happended the night before....so
eventually i started drinking about everyday goin to school drunk going
to work drunk you would never see me sober at all i lost about 30
pounds from not eating because i couldn't because the drugs would make
me feel sick if i did....so for the past year now i haven't takin any
pills i tryed my hardest and i've done it so far the drinking i don't
do EVERYDAY but maybe once a month not even i haven't quite smoking
ciggerettes because i find they relax me now a days because i am going
through alot of things but i do plan on quiting in the next year or so
and as far as weed goes i do still smoke it but not craziy its been 3
months since my last joint i don't crave it as much because i don't
think of it as much as i had in the past and i am working really hard
to stop it completely....so please if your not doing drugs now or
smoking please don't start because it leads to worse things and i don't
want anyone going through what i've been through it's not easy losing
your family and all your friends and doing things to your-self that
hurts your body and can effect the rest of your life....
I was bad , and Now my life is gone .
Atlantic Canada
I was 13 when i started doing drugs. I got into everything
imaginable , meth , weed, extacy , hero, etc. Now, that im older, i
spent all my money on drugs, never finished high school and my children
have no respect for me . I lost it all . Even my little girl . She will
never be the same after she saw me high , shes scarred for life.
betrayal and pregnancy
Western Canada
im 13 and my ex friend was into sex and drugs, she convinced me
2 take some weed, i took some. this was when i was 12, so after a
while, i got hooked on it. and a little while after like a month, i
started 2 get high, so wen i was like drunk and high at a party,i had
sex without a condom, and wen i got my head together,and relized wat
was going on, i stopped.those drugs took over my life. now, because of
those drugs,i am now pregnant.drugs are like a death sentence if ure
not careful. :(
signed.....soon 2 b mom
The Question
Central Canada
I had a chance to do a puff of weed. My friend offered. I know
what your thinking: if this person is offering me drugs then she isn't
really my true friend. But she is! She has been there for me and she is
honest! But she's doing drugs. And I recently found out that she smokes
too! Anyways, that moment that I got offered to do drugs, I said no
because i was scared. But my life isn't good right now, and now I feel
like I want to do it. You know see what it feels like. But I need some
help to chose the answer.
Tips for dealing with the pressure to try drugs
National Kids Help Phone
Too Young...Too Late?
Central Canada
My friend does drugs. And loves it. I'm worried for them. One
time they offered me some, but i have the knowledge to say no. They do
it whenever they can. It scares me. Alot. Is it too late?
weed is bad
Central Canada
hello, i am a 15 year old boy. This is my
story. grade 9 me and my friends were good kids we never did drugs we
drank once in a while but thats it and one day my friend got a pack of
zig zags so we decided to roll grass from the ground and smoke it then
tabacco and then one day we decided to "try" weed. we told our selfs to
never let it effect our skool, but it did badly. During the summer we
did it 2 times a week and then 2 became 3 then 5 then 7. and wen grade
10 started we started doing it 2 times a day every single day. then i
started dealing and things got even worse. i did it about 8-10 times a
day everyday. wen this started happeneing i started getting in trouble
wit my parents they found dope in my room. i got caught
smoking several times once in my basement. and i tried to stop i "quit"
but it messe wit ur mind i lasted a pathetic 8 days. then i started to
"cut back" that did not last at all. i skip skool to bun. i skip
appointments to bun. i lie to my parents everyday, to bun. my marks all
dropped i passed 3 courses this year and failed 6. i keep telling my
self to stop but i simply just cant. smoking weed messed with my head
sooo much i am slowly developing a mental illness. i am becoming bi
polar, temper issues, i cant stick to my word, and i cant make up my
mind. i regret ever "trying" it and if ur reading this and have never tried weed before or
u have tried it and wanna try again trust me do not smoke it.
Breath
Atlantic Canada
Days and days pass before everyones eyes. Does anyone stop to think? That everyday that goes by could be there last? My story . Begins on one of those days, that just go by, as every other. It starts with my mom, She was an addict, for about 5 to 7 or 8 years on and off. For the years she was on, she would get into fights with my dad, about 4 a day, maybe 5 as i was told by her. Untill I was 9 my mom was a severe alcoholic, drugatic, and biggest of all to me, A LIER, someone who will ruin your life oh so dearly. She always told me, Your dad isn't a proper parent. I remember my mom would always fall asleep with a ciggarette in her hand and as outrageous as this seems, it would fall onto the carpet and ignite a fire, but i'd smell it and wake her immedieatly and she'd put it out quick, also sometimes if i was sleeping beside her the cigarrette would fall onto my shoulder/neck and burn me. She would do the same with my brother. My mom went through withdrawls when i was 8 turning 9 and it was hurrific. She got severel sick, vomiting, every few minutes for three days straight, it came to a point where she was getting horrible electro light problems. My aunt flew in the fourth day (morning) As soon as she saw her. It was outs, she called 911, she had to be taken out. That day I never forgot, and never will. It was my birthday, I was turning 9. Was I ever so excited to come home. Not to realize my mom wasn't there. Everyone told me my mom was going to be ok and that she was in the hospital and also that i wouldn't be seeing for her awhile. I tryed hard, not to think about it. Harder then ever, every year that went by. Now i was 10 and I was going to visit my mom in the hospital. I saw her, she told me what was wrong and why she was in there, and yes it was ever so hard for me to understand, but i was just glad to see she was getting better. I asked if she was going to live with me when she got out. She told me no. It was a stern answer and it sunk my heart at the time. Daddy. Hes a loving oh so caring person always there for me and so down to earth. But mistakes took a tall on his life also. My dad as a kid didn't grow up in a nice enviorment. As kids today would call it a ghetto but i prefer to call it, the misfortunate forlorne hearts. When he was in his 20's he started up on cocaine. A horrible drug.. HORRIBLE, as well as that he was an alcoholic. I was told that he quite for 20 or 22 years or something. But when I was 10 i started to notice differences with my dad, I never understood. Then when i was 11 going into middle school, life changed, everything did. Days felt shorter, deppressing, and ugly. It hurt to wake every morning because I new it be the same as the last day, and tomorrow would be the same. By then my dad and brother. They got into severe fights which did last 4 to 5 hours, outrageous but true. & i always would go on my brothers side, my dads point never made any sence and wasn't logical and I was always told, your to young to unerstand. Stop jumping in. always, always what my dad said so i gave up. Some nights the police would come to the house. & discuss the issue with us, my brother would always say he was drinking and drunk and what not. So we'd be taken to my Aunts whom happens to be a cocaine addict also, not that the police new. dispite the mess she lived in. Me, I'm 14teen now, I went through lots more, but i'm not going to write it all down accept this: Middle school, wasn't easy. Grade 6's was the starting of everything, I realized i could bad mouth the teacher and not do my work, & that nothing really bad would be done, in my eyes at the time, not noticing it was screwing my life/future up. Grade 7. Horrible, I got into smoking, and weed, with friends. I got suspended a whole month and an inschool a whole month, the worst part, I thought it was cool Grade 8: Last year there. I wanted to start new/ fresh and ready to takel anything in my way. I was doing great, untill november, and December, I messed up i went back to trouble, back talking teachers, being RUDE. & now, I am not at all like that i changed quite smoking, quite weed, quite horrible habits and realized i only have one life, only one, and all my money wont another minute buy, nothing last for ever, but the earth and sky. My dad quite his drug problem, but didn't with the alcohol it is an on and off habit to this day, but my mom, is sober from everthing 5 years I think which is great. Now please think before you act, those are 3 peoples life, nd storys.. & what drugs did to them.
Playing Russion Roullette with my life
Atlantic Canada
hey guys i found this website its a pretty good one, i decided
to share my story with u to help u guys not make my same mistake. i am 16 and been palying
russian roulette with my life for 6 years. When i was ten my brother
died i was ery deppressed, so i found marijuana, i smoke every day
thinking it eased my pain, but sadly it didnt. when the weed no longer
did its toll i was 12 thats when one of my brithers friends showed me
exctasy, i used it to this day, by thirteen i was shooting heroin and
snorting cocain, i just couldnt stop, for six years i played with death
attems of suicide stealing, court prostitution all just to get my fix,
what caused me to start the hard stuff was the death of my boyfriend comited suicide i wanted out so drugs were my way out or so i
thought, i went every day ssince i was ten using, overdoses countless,
i need to help u guys because i know how it screws peoples life. i
am proud to say that last week i got my thirdy day key tag from
narcotics anonymis, but the news of that makes my reacovery in jeoperdy
was 2 days ago my best friend died of a heroin overdose. and i know i need some
people to help me with recovery.
High school
Western Canada
As a teen,i know that atleast once someone has wanted to try
drugs. And normally ends up on a regular basis doing them. Ive been
telling myself ever since i was five years old that im not gonna smoke
or do any drugs of any sort. Now that im almost sixteen, i feel the
urges to even try it. I wanna smoke cigars, for some reason.Its just
something i've been thinking about for awhile. Every one i know atleast
smokes.. And i've just wanted to try, and look "cool". But i know that
its wrong, and i dont wanna do it! I always get asked if i want a
smoke, and i take them. But i dont smoke them. I just dont understand what i should do. I know that i'm not
going to, because ive experienced my brother go through drugs ever
since grade 8... He said the same thing as me.
And i dont want to turn out like him
Drug free is the way to be!
Central Canada
Hi everyone,
I don't take drugs anymore. I remember growing up and seeing hard drugs for the first time - surprisingly, not by some grungy guy in a dark alley, but by a young affluent teenager in his dad's mansion. It seems that drug abuse has to do mostly with family life... solid families don't tend to struggle with the issue as much as families with broken homes or absentee parents. Maybe we can help prevent drug use by focusing on families instead of biased facts. Family matters!
There is soooo much more to life than drugs people! Just think about our beautiful country! Coast to coast is gorgeous. I've seen so many people waste their life away with a bottle in hand, or a prescription that zombifies them, or with an addiction to party drugs. To be honest, I think that drug abuse is the most selfish thing people can do. Go help someone in need, then you will feel a real high.
So to finish my story - drugs are all around us, but we can all find better things to do with our time, bodies and minds. Like helping each other through life - we're in this world together.
1st time i smoke
Atlantic Canada
I've been a teen with weed problems. The traffic was so hardcore in my
highschool, everybody was selling and smoking weed and everybody was
supplied by dealers over 18 that were selling their thing on the school
property.
I admit it, i lost years of my life and i could use some guidance, but i had no one mature to talk to because it was and still is an illegal activity. I wish the weed was controlled and not sold to minors because it has a serious impact on kids with no self control. I know, i was one of them.
All F#$%ed Up...
Central Canada
I went on a 4 day binge of Mushrooms, Ecstasy, Ketamine and LSD.
I,d hope that all i`d have to say is dont do it cuz it can really limit
your potions in life, and all that s**t in the comercial with the
little blonde kid... thats how it actually goes down, ive been there
first hand, getting kicked out of school and home... No one wants this
to happen to them, but its not fun
when your coming down and all you wanna do is get high...
Done do drugs, its just not worth it.
one night for the rest of my life.
Other
where to start? Coming from a small junior high i was soo
excited to start high school! all those years of dreaming about what it
would be like and i was finally there to experience it all by myself.
interested by the stories told about it, i went inside the school with
an open mind hoping to make some great friends and great memories along
the way. at first i meet up with all my friends from my previous school
and we actually stayed together for a while, but soon we drifted away.
i made new friends. making friends was always the easy part, but i
wanted to please my friends in order to keep them, so when they asked
me if i wanted to chill with them at lunch to go smoke some weed i
didn't even think twice. these were my new friends and i wanted to be
just like them. i've heard the stories about what weed does and they
told me about how good it would feel "plus it's just a plant!" they
said. we lit up the bong and smoked right there on the hill in front of
the school cameras &everything! i went to class reaking of weed, eyes
all red and not able to concentrate at all. at first it was great, i
felt so cool. we would smoke weed almost everyday after school in the
bus shack. i couldn't get over the places where we did it, just right
in front of everyone. after a little bit they introduced me to
something new, drinking and cocaine. i was scared to try cocaine at
first but i got over that after the first snort, they were right it was
a different kind of high. i felt happy and like i could fly away that
night! things quickly escalated to other things. this particular night
of drinking and shenanigans someone came into the party and soon all
attention was focused on him, i moved my way toward the crowd to see
what was going on. someone brought some E. "hey she wants one! give her
one!" my friend said to the guy while pointing to me. ya i guess i'll
try one. so i did. by the end of the summer i was so
messed up on so many things. it was the last day of summer holidays and
we decided to through a major party, i was soo excited! little did i
know that this was the night that everything would come crashing down
on. it was about seven o' clock when people started pouring through the
doors of my friends HUGE house. there was a pool and everything! i was
almost done my drink and just about to get another one, when this
majorly hot guy offered me a drink, i said yes (obviously) but shortly
after that drink i started feeling really weird. just like the movies
man, i started collapsing and i couldn't see properly. i thought i was
going to die. i thought this was the night that i kept talking about to
my friends where i was going to die of an overdose. (we always joked
about dying from drugs, but that never made us stop) i was so scared, i
feel into the guys arms and he took me up to a room where he put me on
the bed. i knew then what was going on. i had only heard about the date
rape drug from t.v but now i was experiencing it first hand. i didn't
pass out completely but i cant remember the full thing because i kept
zoning out, in my mind i was screaming so loud but nothing came out, it
felt like a lifetime that i was lying there and i couldn't help but to
think, where were my friends when i needed them? the ones who said they
would always be there were no where to be found in my greatest time of
need. after that night i promised myself that no more would i do drugs.
i left that life alone and was ready to start anew. but little did i
know that a piece of that would follow me where ever i went. a few
months later i found out that i was pregnant with my rapist baby. could
things get any worse? after accepting the fact that this may be a turn
around for me and that i would actually love to have a little one
around to give my love to forever, i went to the doctors about some
concerns that i had about something abnormal during my early pregnancy.
He came back with the news that would haunt me forever, i had had a
miscarriage. i began thinking about everything up until this point.
drugs had brought me up to the very top only to throw me down, hard on
my face. this is what happens when you don't take control in your life
and you do things just because others say it would be cool! i'm sixteen
and this is something that i never wanted for myself, something that i
hope i can help prevent in someone who is reading my story.
Road to Heroin
Western Canada
When I asked my doctor at the Methadone Clinic whether marijuana
leads to herion addiction, he randomly pulled a bunch of methadone
patient charts from the cabinet and started reading lists of drugs each
patient used before heroin. This was the most visible pattern:
Marijuana - Ecstasy - Cocaine - Heroin
Marijuana - Cocaine - Heroin
Marijuana - Methamphetamine - Heroin
Marijuana - Cocaine - Heroin
Ecstasy/Marijuana - Ketamine - Heroin
... and he summed it up with: "Does marijuana lead to heroin? In here
[Methadone Clinic], it does."
Get the facts and know what you're getting into.
Complete 180
Central Canada
I started experimenting with drugs when I was eighteen. I had
always been such a good kid all my life and was never really tempted
until I went away to university. From day one of first year till a few
months ago, I was getting stoned every night.
Here's what happened to me. I'm bi polar to begin with. I was on and off meds for years, and I was off meds when I started. The weed began to mess with my head. The whole experience of university is big enough as it is, but when you're doing it stoned you lose your mind. I did. I rebelled and did terrible things because of how I felt when I was stoned.
Paranoia is the worst thing. It's not just "are the cops watching me" or "what if you don't really exist", it was deep, personal, and really heartwrenching paranoia like "what does everyone think of me?" "everyone makes fun of me" "everyone really hates me"... and even when I wasn't stoned, I still felt that way.
It shaped me, shedding me of any ego I had. I decided to quit and I'm doing better but a year and a half of drug use every night... I'll never be the same. Don't do it kids, cause you might like it... and that's bad. The world is actually beautiful sober, stoned is just an illusion.
If only
Other
If only is all I can say inthe situation I'm in. I loved smoking the weeds and partying. I never drove drunk but yet I drove when I was high off the dope. " it's not the same" I thought. My friends did it too so it didn't seem like a problem at all to me. One night after a party I said to myself "I'm driving tonight so I won't drink but yet I'll blaze that herb. I got more high then I've ever been yet. It was late and it was about time to hit the sac. So I decided it to call it and be the designated driver to my friends since I wasn't drunk I was only high. Driving home I had 4 of my friends. Driving home we were relaxing just listening to chill music. I hit a red light in the intersection about to go for a left turn, when the light turned green I took the turn and I didn't realize the whole time there was a car infront the whole time but I was too high to realize. It hit my car and it hurt my friends, ones arm broke, one broke his ribs, the other was knocked unconscious and the other one was bleeding heavily. They all went to he hospital while I was standing watching them untouched. If only i wasn't stupid enough to drive, if only I just didn't drive to a party, if only if it was me that got hurt, if only i wasn't just so damn stupid. I lost everything, my friends , my parents' trust, andy self esteem and confidence. I don't even think I'm a good person anymore the only satisfaction I can get now it to tell all you guys that you may all hear that marijuana isn't that bad for you but it can be your last good night.
nope
Other
once i was at a rodeo, and a group of girls asked if i want some
i said nope, i dont do that sorry, then they started to laugh, all i
did was walk away
My sis changed cause of addiction
Northern Canada
My sis and i used to have alot of fun together...we still do but
now that she has become addicted to weed she hasn't been the same. she,
my cousin and her friend decide to go for "motivational walks" and
they act like there is nothing wrong with it. just yesterday they asked
me if i was doing it yet as if it was like an award ceremony to be
doing drugs. now that my sis has used drugs and gotten addicted, she
hasn't been the same. I am going to help my family to have a little
hope by never using drugs. then maybe my sister will see what she
missed.
Is it done yet?
Central Canada
In summer me and my boyfriend were planning to do ecstasy. We've
done it multiple times before this, but we were planning to get REALLY
high. We both got 11 pills each.. he was a drug dealer at the time and
I knew a lot of dealers so we had a whole bunch of different kinds of
pills. I've never taken more than 1
pill at a time before, I usually waited until my high went down before
I took another one. But we took 3 at a time, and waited half an hour
and took another 3 and then another 3 and then I took 2 more. Let's just say I was so high I couldn't even talk ... I couldn't walk, talk or anything. We decided to walk to
7-11 to get some energy drinks and something just didn't feel right. I
looked up and there was bugs ALL over my wall, crawling all over the
place. But only at that one spot .. I ignored it and went to 7-11. I
was freezing cold but my skin was burning. I started hallucinating things. At first it was kind
of cool cause they were happy things. I saw a cute little bunny that
looked like it was off a TV show, I saw balloons and happy things. But
on the way back from 7-11 ... it all went downhill. I felt sick..
something wasn't right at all. We took a different way home, we went to
some parks and sat on the swings and that was fine. Then we decided to
go back to my house and a person on a bike went past us but I thought
it was a bike gang trying to kill us. I hallucinated people following
me, I saw a demon sticking out of my school and it was talking to me..
I ran so fast screaming. There was bugs all over my skin, I kept
hearing voices. Oh, but it gets worse. When we get to my house .. no
ones home but me and my boyfriend. I hear people talking to me from every room
around us. I kept seeing people that weren't there.. I started throwing
up a ridiculous amount.. it was painful, it was the worst tasting puke
in the world, it burned my throat it choked me. I couldn't breathe ..
my boyfriends face wasn't a face anymore it was a big glob of goop it
was terrible. My posters on my wall were dripping with blood I started
screaming I wanted to die. I sat in my room on the cold floor for an
hour saying " Is it done yet? " constantly. I threw up more, I saw dead
people, it was the worst experiance of my life. I've never done drugs
since that day and I know I'll never do it again. The hang over and
what happened on pills was the worst thing to ever happen to me. Don't
do drugs .. you might think it's worth it but it's not. You might feel
good but if you take the wrong pill, or too much.. that could be it.
You could have an experiance like mine that will never leave your mind,
or you could even die. The hang overs are terrible.. you don't eat for
weeks, you constantly feel sick .. it's a disaster. This is my story ..
I stay drug-free
Central Canada
I love my life for the most part, and don't want to ruin it
because of taking drugs. First of all, there's no point to take them,
unless you feel like it'll help, which it won't. And second of all, it
will actually ruin your life.
I heard this one kid at school ask some guys I know if they wanted to get high. They were like, "um...not really", and he's like "COME ON! If you pay me $10.00 i'll give you weed". It was soo weird, but thankfully the guys said no.
Anyways, I choose to stay drug free, even when I'm older (I'm 12) because i love my life, i love my body, and my family and friends, and I'm not gonna loose them because of taking drugs.
the pain i realy hide but the ruth coulndt be hidden
Northern Canada
I was a 16 year old who lived with parents who fight alott and a
stepfather who drinks and smokes drugs and is very verbaly abusive and
can get very agressive at times i have had counters wear i had thrown
my step father down a full flight of stares for his behaver i was
kicked out to the streets at the age of 16 going on 17 and it was
horrible living off freands help and haveing absalutly nothing not even
any of the family to turn to was the real pain alchahol and drugs wear
somthing i thot would turn everthing around to help me in such a time
but as another year whent bye i was found and brott to a hospital to be
revived from hypothermia and i was almost dead i think this realy opend
my eyes i didnt quit everthing just yet but i started stoped smokeing
and slow ed down the buze well i have finaly recoverd fully and now i
dont drink skoke still dont have comunication with my family but im
living a life of work and i have a home and have a wife i go travel to
see every 6 months i hope this story can relate to someone and realy
help ok
god bless us all
You say one thing. But mean another.
Other
I am 12 years old, going on 13. I'm only in grade 7, I don't
take anything, just to get that clear. But I'm afraid I might be
pressured into taking them later, like when high school comes around.
My class makes jokes about take things, sniffing, smoking and all that crap, I laugh, but deep down I wonder; "will I ever be a a druggie?". In high school I hear the pressure is on, and your friends are a big part of that. I have great friends, they love me for who I am, and I am 99% sure they would never do drugs or anything, adn never pressure me into it. I know this because when ever we play truth or dare, it can;t involve drugs or smoking.
But there's that voice in the back of my mind, hiting me all the time, for making those small mistakes of taking a tylnol or something, then realiving it was just the way I was sitting that was making my head hurt. I shiver thinking about myself in two years. Maybe taking something, smoking or sniffing things. I wish I could say I know I will never take anything, but really who can tell the future?
You can say one thing now. But later it is totally diffrent.
Drugg Free
Central Canada
so i'm sure everyone tries drugs around the age of 14 - 15 . but
they dont realize what it can do to your life .. if teens were smart
enough to think about how drugs effect your life , they would know how
bad it is to get hooked on drugs. I'm 15 , turning 16 on the 20th. I do
drugs , i was too stupid to think of what i would become , ive stolen
from my own family , lost some of my best friends trust . i wish i
would have never started doing drugs , and i hope more teens would
think about it. just look how i turned out , stealing money off my mom
just so i can go buy more drugs .. it's a horrible life. and im only 15..
saying no
Central Canada
drugs the worst possible thing known to man in my mind . if
i where offered it i would say no its bad for your body. dont get
sucked into pure pressure it can ruin your life . if you feel it make
you feel good turn your self against it cuse after only a couple
months after doing it you'll lose your looks and you'll be butt ugly .
trust me . so my advice to you use your power while you have it and
say no be a good influence.
I thought it was fun at the time.
Other
Well, at the age of 11 I had started smoking cigarettes. I am
now 16 years old, and addicted to smoking. As I started to get older, I
had made a myspace and decided to meet people off of that website
because I thought they were "nice". At the age of 12, I had smoke weed
for my first time and smoked up everyday until I was about 14 years
old. Between the ages 12-15 I had decided to go downtown and hangout
with some kids I had met on the street. I decided to try ecstasy, which
became a everyday thing for me. When I was at school, I'd be doing
pills, when I'd be at home, I'd be on pills, when I'd be alone I'd be
on them, everyday I would be on them. Eventually that had brought me to
do cocaine, did that about 10 times. Then I had realized I was out of
my mind, and wasting my life. To all you out there, who are wondering
about trying your first cigarette, or trying cannabis(no it is not only
a plant), ecstasy, cocaine, etc. please do not do it. It's for your own
good, no one deserves to go through the stress, the depression.
Today, I am clean. I can't name a single friend I know that doesn't smoke weed. My boyfriend actually smokes, and it makes me quite angry most of the time. We always sit in his friends house, while they smoke in his basement. The smell now just turns my stomach.
Just to fit in.
Western Canada
I remember going into highschool, it was like some big step.
You'd meet new people, new classes, teachers, finding out who you were,
and where you wanted your life to go, parties, alcohol, and Drugs. I
figured it was a piece of cake, and I'd stick to my school work, keep
my close friends from my previous school, and just hit highschool with
my head held high.
When you think of a Senior falling for a grade 8, couldn't be possible? I thought it did, i fell for every word he used on me. I didn't know he wanted more..much much more. He told me that trying weed, would make me more popular, and he'd ease on up pushing me towards to do other things. I believed it, and i did it. I admit it was fun, and with my homelife, it was great to feel on top of the world.
I continued doing weed for about a few months, no big. But don't let that fool you, drugs a drug. It comes with it's own problems. Soon I was trying to sell weed/hash/ and E, to my bestfriend.. It was shallow, but at the time, but what my boyfriend wanted was what he got. I was always scared to dissapoint him, i've heard what he's done to his other girlfriends, but i never really wondered what he'd do to me, if i ever brought it up. So i just kept all of his past on the Download.
I'm in grade ten now. And i have tried all certain amounts of drugs. If i could have done it differently..then yes i would have. But from how i see it, lifes full of challenges. And for someone to be able to say "no" to a joint, or a cap. In front of a group of people, who think there so cool, becasuse their doing cheap drugs. I think glory of you, i wish, i wish i could have said that. Stood up for myself, and actually listened to what people were telling you.
My Life.
Central Canada
I grew up in always living inside the guide lines. Untill my
first girlfriend. She started smoking and well she got me hooked in
grade 7. I never really thought much of it untill i couldnt stop. One
day i went out to see my girlfriend and her and her friends brought
something i'v never seen before. A bong. I never tried weed before than
and i didnt know what to expect. After that day, any time i had a
chance to smoke up, i took it. Through most of my pre teen years I was
high. I was drunk. Or in the back of a police car. Now im starting
grade 10 trying to shake this habite now. Im girlfriendless , my
friends are druggies, but there my friends, my parents cant trust me,
my grades are seriously low and im looking for a way out. Dont make the
decisions I made.
Its hard to get alway from it i know !!
Western Canada
Hi there i know how hard it is to get
away from drugs i been there and done it and it took me almost 3 yrs to
get away from it so if at any time some asked you about doing drug
always say no!!!!!!!!
paychecks going to pot
Central Canada
Growing up in a small town and working at a low income job, the
opportunity for me to use marjuana (weed) was always available for me.
Although i did not choose to use this drug until highschool. What
started out as a once in a while habit with friends turned into a
weekly party and social drug. Eventually the effects of marjuana became
less and less for me and i started using it more often. With a low
income and resulting to buying off random street dealers I realized my
life needed a change. I did not find weed very difficult to quit, I
just was gettin temptations which over time faded. I think that if you
do not start these drugs in the first place you wont have to go through
what i did. I regret starting to use marjuana beacuse i look back at
all the money i spent, and the friends that i lost. I regret that
aspect because many people look down on those who use drugs and are
sterotyped very quickly. My best advice is to Say No, trust me its the
best decision you can make.
I'm 13years old...
Northern Canada
I'm 13years old, and I've been through pretty rough times. I've
had my ups&downs. More then hald of my friends are addicted, or do
drugs occasionaly. Like any other curious teenager I've been tempted to
try it, but i've always said NO. Drugs do you no goood, they damage
your body and do nothing good to you. It might feel good for the first
hour when nothing feels real, but in the end it helps nothing. I live
in a very small town were most of my friends have went through very
rough times. It's been pretty easy so far, my friends accept the fact
that I am not one to do this. But I havent hit highschoool like most of
my friends. I don't think highschoool will affect me, I don't usually
fall for "peer presure" ,. I have high goals for my life, and no way
will they be reached if I get into horrible habits like this. All i've
got to say is don't fall for peer presure. if people don't accept you
for saying NO, then they arn't worth your time. Your real friends, the
people that accept you , your decisions are the ones that are worth
keeping around. :)
still falling
Atlantic Canada
It all started when i was little my brother and two older step
sisters were my idols I wanted to be just like them. I had smoked my
first joint with them when I was 7. I obviously didn't continue on at
that age but i did start again probably at 11 or 12 from then till
grade 9 it was on and off until i started smoking pot like EVERYDAY.
Then i tried ketamine for my first time half way through grade nine. It
was love i didn't stop i would do anything for it. I stole, bribed my
friends to get it and share, did as much as i could to get it. i was
doing upwards of 2 balls a week maybe.
Then I met a boy and I quit everything. I would have no part in the drugs. I had also quit drinking because my brother died in a drunk driving accident.
Then i would see people drinking at a party so i started again and was drinking heavily up until i moved which then i became a pothead again because everyone up north does it because its boring up there. I got kicked out of my house because my brother stole stuff and I lied hoping he wouldnt get in trouble but nope i got kicked out. My brother and i became a team we sold together which supported our "popper" habits i was barely coherent too anything that went on I was always so high I dropped out of school.
It got bad so then i moved out and came back to the city and I quit cold turkey I was sick for three weeks i couldnt eat, sleep, i had fevers, i was puking. It was sooo horrible. I had decided i would quit weed forever. Which i have. but then i got into raving. For those of you that have never been to a rave DONT GO. Almost anyone that goes gets sucked into a horrible drug scene. If you can remain sober then its fun but my problem was i couldnt.
I mean I can't since I've started I started out by doing ecstasy then it moved to mdma then it was shrooms then more ecstacy and back into ketamine then onto speed acid coke and now im in a vicious circle. I am now running to support myself and im only in grade 12. Please tell me how this has all fallen when I am so young. I know I am young and my lifes not over yet. I wont let it be.
I don't want to be here but I'm afraid to ask for help. If i can somehow help someone with my story though. do not do drugs. Find beauty in your everyday life. I assure you, it is not worth it in the end to even try smoking pot even it just makes you tired and feel like crap. pointless waste of money. Go buy shoes and laugh with your friends because i barely smile anymore and I'd love to know what it would have been like if I had of been old enough to make that strong decision to say no.
sex, drugs, rap & hip-hop ...
Central Canada
it all started in grade 10. i was friends with the same people
throught out my elementary school years, and they started to party alot
and whatever else. i went with them one time, for pretty much my first
time and it was crazy. we were all drunk dancing around and whatnot &
then the person who owned the house brought out some cocaine ... my two
friends were doing it and asked me to try, and i said yes. so i did,
and lots of it.. after that night, i started to party a lot more, and
started to do a lot more of cocaine. for almost half a year, i was
addicted. down the line of me
partying, i started using more cocaine, extacy, A LOT of alcohol, acid,
and some random pills here and there. i stopped using at the beginning
of winter 08. now to this day, i do drink ocassionally, but it's
controlable. i do not use any drugs anymore. but i know people who do,
and it's not effecting them in a good way at all. im glad i stopped. if
you have a problem, tell somebody and get help. it's the
rite thing to do!
This is REDICULOUS !
Northern Canada
ok , im 15 years old . and im into drugs. heres my story. When
i was 11 , my friends introduced me to weed. I would smoke it
ocasionally with them for the first few months , then it turned into an
every weekend thing , then every day . My mom is a single mom , and she
got married to a coke addict. it was pretty bad , and my way of getting
away from all their arguing and him acting stupid was leaving my house
and like never being home , because i couldnt stand watching my mom be
upset . I chill with people with age range of 15-22 years old , 90% are
into drugs , and %5 drug dealers and the other %5 are clean. I started
getting addicted to e , i would do it every single day , i would go
grab 2 around 8pm , then be back at 9am for another 2 , it was my daily
routine . Eventually i got so addicted to e , ( by the way , i love
liquer ) i went and i stole about 5 bottles from the liquor store. thinking i
would get away with it because i usually do . of course i got caught.
got charged. my mom grounded me , i ran away from home , got really
f'd up on drugs. and came home like 2 days later. Then i stopped
doing e for about 3 months , then i got into mdma , k , acid , shrooms
. all that stuff. Last weekend , i got really really drunk , i did e ,
k , m and acid....after that weekend . im never doing drugs again . i
started seeing stuff i didnt want too , i saw my friends dying , when
they werent , i saw people trying to kill me , there wasnt anyone ,i
puked everywhere, just horrible night .and now 5 days later. im so sick
. i have never been this sick before. So if youve tried drugs.
stop...and if you havnt . dont think about it , you may be tempted to
try it , and you might have fun while your high , but think of the side
effects.
One little puff
Atlantic Canada
I used to have a drug addiction, and it all started out of one
little puff of a marijuana joint. Drugs ruined my life. I slept with
guys when I couldnt afford drugs, ive treated my family with such
disrespect, I had no mroe money. I dropped out of school and lost my
job. I wanted to die. I started at 12 and at 17 I had landed myself in
rehab. Its not worth it. I had lost every little self respect I had
left of myself. Id look at myself in the mirror, and Id want to break
the mirror. I had become a monster. My mom was terrified of me. I
wouldnt listen to her, she would listen to me. Id beat my baby brother.
I had no emotions whatsoever because I was high all the time. Today I
really feel that I was a prisoner for five years. Im glad that I went
to a 8 week program in rehab. For Ive been sober for 5 months now. Its
the best feeling. Ive learned to connect with my emotions. Drugs arent
the answer. Theyre just part of problem. You seriously dont have to try
it out for yourselves. Some things in life you dont need to make the
mistake to learn. Learn from others' mistakes.
January 2010; a bad way to start off the year..
Other
i had problems at home. i had problems at school. i needed an escape. January X, a night to regret, was the night i decided to use ecstasy. my friends were there to support me, and my sister found out aswell. my sister had done these kinds of thing before as well but she had stopped all of it. it was the end of her experience with drugs. this was just the beginning for me. but i live my life every day having that horrible memory along side me. and the thing is, teenagers think s=they are invinsible. they think that they can get away with anything but really, it catches up with all of them. for me, it was guilt for about a month, but then parents began to find out. and after it got around my mom knew all about the night. to be honest, she was dissapointed but i felt alot better knowing that she was there for me. she was my biggest supporter. she wasn't going to leave meto figure it out on my own. so now, all i can say, is that if you are caught in a situation like mine, just be honest with your parents but most importantly, yourself. think really hard, and if you know that it could happen again, then tell someone you can trust and you will get help. just take my advice. i promise it will work out for you.
A Continuing Story
Other
I go to one of the smallest high schools in all of my province, and
there are just 24 kids in all of my class. I don't do drugs,
but have been asked, by some of my friends, to try drugs. Anyways, at
the start of the year one of my friends started to smoke weed and she
said that she would only do it rarely and would never get addicted or
try stronger drugs than marijuana. Now, she is smoking cigarettes every
time i see her at lunch and after school and is getting high every
other day. Some of my friends try to justify it by saying that it is
good for you, it cures cancer, and other lies they tell to themselves.
I hope all of my friends who do this will quit soon, because it is very
easy to become addicted to the vast array of lethal drugs. I know that
smoking weed can be caused by emotional difficulties in their life. I
love all my friends, even though it kills me to have to keep secrets in
when i can see them that way. Oh sure, i might crack a joke about it to
try and ease the stress, but it has been enormously difficult to keep
in the secrets.. As i am writing this, i am crying. crying for my
friends who are slowly slipping away and getting sucked into drugs.
How Much is too extreme?
Atlantic Canada
My friends are into the drug culture, I've
tried to help them but they think it is "extreme". Now I wonder will i
Ever Be extreme, and can i ever help them?
Criminal Charges casue of stupid marijuana
Central Canada
I was in Grade 12 at high school and i asked for a spot andthe drug dealer said no and he was in grade 10...so later that morning i went and robbed him.the next day at school cops were there and i was charged with assault and robbery.he told the cops i beat him up and stole 200 dollars and he had marks on him that he said i hit him.went to court and i was charged with assault and robbery was on prohbation for a year had to make a 500 dollar donation.since the day the cop showed up at my school i have not touched marijuana and never ever will its terrible and can lead to terrible things.
my sister and her friends think i will do weed.. ya right
Northern Canada
it all started last year when i was in grade 8 my sister had her
friends over for 4 20 the day ppl do weed and one of my sisters friends
asked me to try some... but i had just got home form school because i
was very ill. the whole house stank like weed and the next thing i knew
i was passed out on the foor
Teller.
Other
First i started to smooke...then i started to get high! Then my
promblems got Bigger Nd Bigger Tell i got Suspened from School. For
Having Marajonna With me on school Grounds........But then i stoped all
that stuff cuz now u know wut it can get u in to! im Gald i dont do
that noo more!
my friends said...
Other
my friends said i would be to cool 4 school if a did
marajawonna. so i did and got all druged up and i hurt my mom she cried
4 suck a long time then i beat u the person who gave it to me then my
boyfriend put stuff in my drink but im done all of that stuff now i
reaized its 2 cool 4 school not to do that stuff
it wasnt for me
Northern Canada
me and my brother were hanging out and these kids around the age
of 16 came up to me and him and ask us if we did weed and if we wanted
to try some but i said no but my brother tryd it i told my parents and
my dad didnt give him alot of trouble but said not to do it because it
can wreck you life when your older if you do it alot :( but i know its
bad so i think im going to leave that stuff alone.
Just One More Time
Central Canada
me and my best friend just started highschool.
he had smoked up before.
but it was my first time, he said i would be fine. i took a toke.
and held it in. it mad me feel so cool and then he kissed me. we ended
up dating, but everytime i said i didnt want to smoke again. he would
say he would brake up with me. i was trapped i felt like i had to do in
one more time so we could still be together. since then i stoped. we
broke up and he has gotten in to harder things.
all i can say is that. dont even do it that one time. after that its
just hard to say no.
More Stories...
September 2011
- A Drug Crime
- focus on something else
- things change
- when mary-jewana isn't so cool
- The green was mean
- Not Me
- Marijuana
- I wish I knew, I really do...
- My Friends Do It, I Don't
- When you least expect it
- What 3 years can do...
June 2011
- Drug Abuiser
- Drugs R BAAAD!
- I never really knew anything better.
- peer pressure
- Why make the choice i did
- You'll lose your best friends
- freshmen year kickoff
- 3 lives gone
May 2011
- it started off with once a day..
- It's harmless fun? Not.
- all my friends smoke pot
- From the Heart
- Stop and Think
- Just Lucky
- not happy with any thing
- the "best" night of my life...
- drugs - not for me..
- Scary times
- best friend
- '67
- Peer Pressure
- All the Downsides
- Bad influence, great model
- your better off...
- preventing drug use for teens
- ending the teenage years
- I knew him so well...
- The Plunge
- My Friend
- in class bad trip
- Four years in hell!
- dont do weed
- Date NIght
- were are they now
- waking up
- i didnt even know
- need help
March 2011
- After Math
- angry and confused
- how bad drugs and smoking are
- Wrong Way
- Meth took me away from myself
- peer pressured
- my down hill life :(
- High and Low
- it changed my life.
- A Promise
- the problems with hard drugs.
- 16
- Surrounded
- can't wait to see if you open up the gates for me
- Skatepark Scare
- Positive Change
- Miracle Baby
- The Break-up
- be cool, don't do drugs
- Crack
- Being real
- "I'll only do it once, I promise."
- i was a gross drug addict
- the diasease
- 19/03/2011
- who's that disaster in the mirror
- Lessons Learned.
- My grade 9 year
- all wrong :(
- Scared to death
- Help me.
- Welcome to my life
- She WAS Amazing...
- MaryJanee really is thee gateway druug !
- Day brake!
- "i thought id try it once"
- Marijuana: harmless? I think not!
- It only gets worse
- Drugs are what make r lifes change..
- Ecstasy
- It's not hard to say no, even with everyone around you doing them
- My story with drugs
- Be There, Done That
- Drugs are Bad Mk
- Drugs and me
- amazing?
- The Drug Addict
- rocky road
- me
- My story; (Dont do meth)
- it's not what you want.
- Gave me the wrong drug
- One thing always leads to another and so on..
- I lied to them all
- The unexpected
- Smoking Marijuana
- stay away from crack
- Scared Straight.
- they took over my life.
- Repitition
- High School
- The bad parents.
- Pills
- I want to save him. .
- EVERY DRUG IS ADDICTIVE
- Never.
- I got addicted
- They actually liked my better when i told them i dont like smoking weed
- My friend almost over-dosed.
- It only started with weed
- kills familys
February 2011
- My Inspiration
- I never though it would happen to me.
- Once and Only Once
- Not losing control.
- To bad it only took once
- Life gone down,
- All it took was a little convincing.
- the past turns into the future
- Life on the Streets
- Ecstasy.
- Doesn't take just once.
- Marijuana: Not So Harmless
- pills, weed, cocaine, ect.... "I'll only do it a few times, then I'll quit.. simple."
- everyone cried..
- Help
- I used to S.W.E.D
- what could have been
- My song I wrote about drugs & how they affect you, called "Frozen"
- Questioning my sanity with rave drugs
- I tried all kind of drugs!!
- The dangers of overdosing.
- I said i wouldn't
- I couldn't believe it...
- Rolling Away - A True Addiction!
- The gateway drug
- My story.
- Wrecked my life.
- My broken road..
- My rock bottom
- a powerful pill
- i don't need no drugs to calm me.
- It's Never Worth It
- I speak from experience
- nuthing good
- Marijuana
- A year to nothing
- From good .. To Bad
- Just good fun - Right?
- WEED IS GREED
- Not me
- Fake Happiness
- In the begining, you always think that it's just for fun but as time passes, you need it to be happy.
- Its Time to Quit.
- i wasnt addicted at first
- Ecstasy, pills and drinking.
- the monster
- He's not the same person
- cocaine kills
- I started smoking marijuna
- All time low
- How I survived
- Why I don't do it
- I used to do everything but PCP and shooting up
- We'll dance one day
January 2011
- parrents can to
- my drug adiction
- How I made the right choice in life, and you can too.
- Should I stay, or should I go?
- Ecstasy and how it can control you.
- done and over with.
- A Trip Down Memory Lane
- it's not me, it's you...
- the loss of a loved one
- mdma is whack
- My Brother... TRUE STORY
- No more I am worth more
- She`s lucky I was there.
- It's not always greener on the other side.
- Overdose Sent Me Straight.
- Drugs
- My biggest regret
- you think your safe with your freinds?
- Complete system shutdown.
- Failure
- My journey
- Even a Little Bit Can do A Lot.
- Marijuana & Bi-Polar
- Once Upon A "Trip" Down Memory Lane
- Unknown
- Who knew it would happen to me.
- you never know
- Lost in Ecstacey.
- I CHANGED!
- I will never
- Drugs may have been fun while they lasted but now i'm feeling the effects while trying to live a normal life.
- Stay Smart: don't let anyone tell you that side effects arn't real!
- Weed should not be smoked
- It could get worse
- How could i do this.
- oxycotin
- I cant believe i did this stuff!
- STREET DRUGS ARE NOT THE ANSWER
- Why do it?
- you dont know what your smoking...
- Oxy-contin use
- To young to care not old engough to know better
- She Let Go
- Drugs r bad
- My Life Story =D
- Just a Dream...
- Hungry Dogs
- My troubled sister
- I've Decided to Say No.
- dont smoek weed
- Dont talk to druggies
- Don't be Me
- How it can happen without even doing it
- I thought it'd never get this bad..
- Not cool @ all.
- its just weed.
- not even once
November 2010
- my brother.... i think
- I've been pressured to do marijuana
- not really harm less
- My True Drug Story
- Role Model
- Rollercoaster of drugggzzzz
- READ ME
- pills
- my reasons for not doing drugs.
- ECSTASY WARNINGS!
- hipocrit
- Pathetic fears.
- Drugs Changed My LIfe
- Brothers firt bad choice
- Crack Daddy
- Drug-Runners
October 2010
- Why I chose to stay smart
- I would of Never thought
- I've had good times
- Fun--but not in the long term
- "The Dance"
- Crack is whack
- Mind Altered
- DON'T DO EM.
- I m gonna take control...
- never have never will
- Never kiss a girl that does weed
- addicted
- To get that high once again...
- My friend
- All Of The Sudden Parties,weed,e.t.c
- it was laced
- Pill Thrill
- It all started out so simple...
- Tothemax
- Just say NO
- Wrongs And Punishment
- just one puff
- Weed..
- Halloween
- I would do anything to have my old life back
- Rock Bottom
- Fight your curiosity!
- It happens.
- I had a bad life and i hope that your is not bad as mine
- a life in hell
- everything
- The Wrong choices
- kidnapped my cousin.
- don't even go there.
- My Friends Mom
- Drug addicts galore
- Your life is bigger then Drugs!
- My story
- I m 22 now
- Dealing, smoking, sniffing
- Drugs
- 5 months on rock bottom
- ruined more than one life...
- Drugs.
- spare yourself the pain
- Parents can help!
- I'm My Own Person, & I Don't want To End Up Like them
- stories will be stories .
- My life. .
- Honestly Guys?
- Finally coming out the other side.
- regret
- Sleeping in the Park
- A Drug Addicts Story P.S. this is about my sister
- Entheogens
- Save your brain, don't do drugs.
- drugs hate me
- My story
- Within one year
- Damage done, forever gone.....
- weed adiction 2 a 10 year old
- It was hard to do, but I am happy I just said no.
- dope is for dopes
- My boyfriend and her..
September 2010
- F'd up
- The Cruelest Dream, Reality
- Why drugs are bad
- Shouldn't have even gotten close.
- The NiteMare Of My Life a.k.a TNMOML!
- Story.
- "He handed me that rather large bag"
- the days weeks months i thought i could handle it all
- Still Recovering.
- One last time
- Just say no!
- It doesn't take much.
- You think it's all a game.
- make the right choice.
- i picked the wrong path ...
- This is my story...
- Stupidity & Regret
- this happended.
- I've made mistakes.
- There is NO rock bottom
- Finding The Edge
- XTC - my choice of drug
- It's not worth it
- Look in the mirror
- F***ed up life
- Addiction
- Out of curious.
July 2010
- Marijuana Effects
- hopeless to happiness
- It's all true..
- Could have been me...
- I didn't know what to do
- Devils playground
- i hate WEED
- Rollin then falling
- mistake.
- it all started with a pretty bong...
- Everyones doing it...
- I'm my own person, I can do anything. I am unstoppable......NOT
- rags to riches to reality
- That's Not Me
- Just Once ?
- drugs!
- Curious, Image, Lost and now Found
- Some facts.
- What I have done :(
- I'm a girl in grade 8.
- Drugs and the Effects they had on me.
June 2010
- u think its fun
- BIG MISTAKE
- There is no such thing as Soft drug
- Things Keep Changing
- Drugs are bad!
- The Pain of 6 Years.
- I've been there, please hear me out.
- Drugs
- Do you hold the key to closed doors?
- You don't have to.
- weed
- My mom saved me, Dont know why but she did.
- no thanx
- He was My Best Friend
- dont ever do this
- Release
- i dont take drugs
- dealers nextdoor
- I remember when...
- Being Hooked on Drugs...
- The druggies
- how my life got wrecked because of drugs
- Overdoses
- There is hope
- Trying Something New
- Forever saying no to drugs
- Pot controlled me.
- Never lie or do something that you know you don't want to.
- Panic E-ttack
- never try drugs
- Never too late
- say no to drugs say yes to ur life
- peer pressure
- Say, "No Thanks"
- Daddy
- Candy
- Never For Me
- death by drug...
- What to do?
- (Dont.. Smoke 'Em If..)
- drugs.. are they really worth it??
- Its not all the same
- My best friend dead.
- anyone wanna bun?
- you'll lose. nobody wins.
- Just try it , c'mon nothing will happen ...
- out of control
- My Role-Model
- Never again..
- At the end of the day...
- Trust me, say no.
- Herpes
- Personal Experiences
- Started doing drugs...
- f'ed up night
- addicted
- CIG to BOOZE to WEED
- I started...
- What's the big deal right?
- Weed runied me.
- Revelation
- D.R.E.A.M. dRUGS rUINED eVERYTHING aBOUT mE
- My Life
- Drugs Can Ruin Your Life
- I was bad , and Now my life is gone.
- betrayal and pregnancy
- The Question
- Too Young...Too Late?
- weed is bad
- Breath
- Playing Russion Roullette with my life
- High school
- Drug free is the way to be!
- 1st time i smoke
- All F#$%ed Up...
- one night for the rest of my life.
- Road to Heroin
- Complete 180
- If only
- nope
- My sis changed cause of addiction
- Is it done yet?
- I stay drug-free
- the pain i realy hide but the ruth coulndt be hidden
- You say one thing. But mean another.
- Drugg Free
- saying no
- I thought it was fun at the time.
- Just to fit in.
- My Life.
- Its hard to get alway from it i know !!
- paychecks going to pot
- I'm 13years old...
- still falling
- sex, drugs, rap & hip-hop ...
- This is REDICULOUS !
- One little puff
- January 2010; a bad way to start off the year..
- A Continuing Story
- How Much is too extreme?
- Criminal Charges casue of stupid marijuana
- my sister and her friends think i will do weed.. ya right
- Teller.
- my friends said...
- it wasnt for me
- Just One More Time
May 2010
- How I said no from being asked to smoke marijuana
- My choices.
- Hero, to Friends
- Drugs aren't your friend. Friends are.
- help
- A-GEE
- me
- Never again.
- Rest of your life
- drugs are bad mm kay
- Only once
- straightedge
- leaving the earth.
- Drilling Deeper
- There is hope
- I thought it'd take all my problems away
- Runaway Fears
- Never Again...
- My Life
- A east side story
- the pond
- Weed addiction.
- Drugs are scandalous!
- My Story.
- This is why I'm against drugs.
- "im only gonna try it once"...or so i thought
- The popular and the confused
- 2 days, 34 pills.
- Bad trip
- home alone
- realy dank buds
- Sex, Drugs, and Rock N' Roll...Not the best combination
- running
- She didn't know.
- getting better
- the last time i seen him
- my sisters friend
- Here I am...
- Drugs Are Bad
- Fitting in
- proud of who i am.
- A "Drug War" Scenario:
- love drug
- dead, inside
- Drugs ruin people
- gateway drug
- This wasn't what I was looking for
- Drugs leave to new lifes
- never again
- They just mess you up
- I might throw up!!!!
- party madness
- man what was i thinking ??
- There was this girl...
- Still am
April 2010
- High school
- Choices
- i dont want to do drugs
- Doesn't take much to lose control.
- Another Day Gone
- once went to everyday , once went to 5 times and proboly more.
- Crack Cocaine No Joke!
- Story of my afterlife
- It was good at first ...
- in too deep
- dancing with Mary jane
- crack is murder
- Weed ate my Baby
- Scary Experience
- Mushrooms, Acid, and Ecstasy, 13 years old
- im 17 years i went down a bad path of drugs
- In my school there is a smokers section
- How My Life Changed.
- No way
- Everything Happens for a reson
- No, thanks
- drugs is murder
- Think Twice
- never again
- Tough Guy
- School Sucks
- Why Weed?
- grade 9 disaster
- Failure and hardship of late fix
- Drugs are Wack !!
- What happeneds
- Ohoh here comes my mom...
- My Drug Abuse
- What happens when u smoke crack
- A Word Can Ruin Everything
- My Friends Do Drugs
- i did drugs
- The Army and Weed
- weed
- my bad life
- Best friend mishap
- The New But Old Ecstasy
- im to young for this ....
- i told him no... thinking he would listen.
- Pushing
- Lost Control.
- Lonely.
- im to young for this ...
- i said i'd only do extasy once ...
- no i dont want that nasty stuff
- Losing Everything
- Paths of life
- a life gone astray
- Fixing my life
- Messed it Up
- Im in grade 10
- Torn out of life.
- Schizophrenia
- this is my story ..
- livelovedie.
- No to Meth
- For those who need help
- How I started...
March 2010
- Ever heard of 'too much' chronic?
- R.I.P Sis
- dont be like me and do drugs
- Stay in SCHOOL!
- No, because I'm straight edge
- Mari-jane brought me pain
- Weed Isn't Just Harmless...
- Peer Pressure- Praying Helps ;)
- A Commitment To My Passion
- 1 thing leads to another...
- Peer Pressure
- I can do much better than drugs.
- A Very Dangerous Kind of Fun.
- 'Just Say No'. It's not as easy as it sounds...
- The gate-way to lonely
- 19 and drug free
- drug dealing manslaughter
- Dopes a Nope
- help stop teens doing drugs
- scared
- Don't do it..
- One world , One wrong decision
- My one day experience turned into a two week experience.
- I never thought it would happen to me....
- My Mistake
- It all started when I was thirteen.
- He just Wont.
- waste of money and time.
- Marijuana
- Regret
- not for me
- why i don't do drugs!
- peer pressured
- Drugs
- Pot smokers, please read...
- Why?
- Marijuana
- The New Girl.....
- Blocked
- my dream came true
- How It Came To Be.
- Make the right friends
- peer pressure
- weed is wack
- PEACE
- my brother
- my addiction
- friend of a drug
- No, for me and her!
- Pressure free
- stupid guy!
- NOTforME! :)
- Just one hit..
- it was just one hit .... at first
- It's hard to pick the right words...
- Me v.s Drugs.
- One time leads to one big mistake
- Just One Time
- Can quit , but dont want to?
- Not EVER
- my life with drugs
- never
- Some Things Are More Important
- a broken family <`3
- lone wolf
- i got a problem!!
- She lost everything.
- One night!
- the only person that can ruin your life, is yourself.
- Never Ever!
- What happend when drugs enterd my family
- Long journey, Not over yet
- It's Painful to watch her
- Me? or The Drugs?
- DON"T DO IT!! a.k.a A PUFF can equal a place in HEAVEN
- how stupid can you be?
- Not a crack in the pavment
- my addiction since grade 9.
- How Bad I am with DRUGS
- High High school
- just cool it, but why?
- pressured into piff.
- everyone feels it and only some do it...but you don't have to!
- it was a sign.
- How I said no..
- she can't help her self.
- bad time
- I should've known.
- one times all it takes
- My friend
- Weed is a gateway drug to worse events, and to a future of bad things
- Meh, it'sz only one time...
- Dope over friends.
- Bad way!!
- Not Done.
- drugs
- my only friend is differnt now
- what
- freinds and weed.
- WEed
- Behind closed doors
- Its my life
- parents need to wake up
- one night could change your life.
- Night Prowler
- The EBO
- i said no
- Say no the first time.
- party and drug problem
- My life
- on day after school
- stop drugs
- My love affair with weed
- bad times
- Death Scare
- Bad Changes to Good
- I'm High on Life
- Addicted !
- Stuff happens
- pressure pressure pressure
- Stranger Danger
- To Much
- family and friends
- I can handle it.. so i thought...
February 2010
- Hurt
- Basketball or Speedball
- Everyone Does It?
- i may be alittle burnt.
- How drugs changed my life
- Strangers Giving You A Candy.....
- One dare can change your life.
- Why I don't use.
- i hope i helped
- two puff pass
- nOT PrOuD
- Pear Pressure!
- I regret...
- never again
- I never thaught it would happen to me
- Turned Out Wrong
- Say No.
- Dark clouds may hang above me but i know i'll get through it
- mush mistake
- Triplel Threat
- Why I Decide To Stay Drug Free
- Untitled.
- I used to do DRUGS!
- Night of complications
- Getting influenced by love
January 2010
- Scared Myself Away .
- Never been but already know
- My Story
- I "Thought it was cool! But i thought wrong.
- in ninth grade
- Numb
- Why I avoid drugs
- one bad decision
December 2009
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