Social Drinking and Drug Use

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I'd ask him if he wouldn't rather have some of my rum with my friends. If not, sure. I'd follow him in my car though. Sometimes even the coolest people you meet have real jackasses for friends, and it's good to keep 'leaving' as a convenient option.

The "Just Say No" campaign is a joke. Do these people really think we are not going to use drugs just because someone said to say no? When we are confronted with using any kind of drug we need to know what kind of situation we are getting into before our minds are altered. Once we start using, it can be extraordinarily difficult to make prudent decisions while we are intoxicated or even after we sober up. Using drugs often affects us more than we realize. Using drugs is an awesome (I use this word in its true sense) responsibility. Before I partake in such a potentially life altering decision, I like to be be truly informed of the consequences- both positive and negative. Then I take the time to weigh the pros and cons and make an informed decision. This is a very different approach than "Just Say No". I like to make my own decisions rather than mindlessly listen to someone else tell me what to do.

I think these kinds of campaigns make people want to rebel more.

When I was in my very late teens and early 20s, I drank a lot. In my early-to-mid 20s, I also experimented with recreational drugs. I don't do drugs now, and I drink very rarely. (I'm 44.)

Great point. I've heard that in Europe, where drinking alcohol is part of the culture and starts at a young age, there are far fewer alcohol problems - people are simply more responsible drinkers. Many a person in my English classes have written a persuasive essay on lowering the drinking age based on this statistic.

Just remember: If you say "No" to drugs, you're talking to drugs. If you're talking to drugs, odds are, you're already ON drugs.

Diseased,

*ponders a moment*

That does explain a lot.

I think that for a long time, my answer would have been that I would go with him. For a really long time I was so desperate for friends/feeling accepted that I would have gone for it just for that reason. However, when I was 20 I ended up being "too nice" to some guy who just got paroled (I met him in church, so it wasn't like I was seeking his company - he just happenned to be where I was). Anyway, he'd follow me around and tell me how he hadn't had sex in all the years he was in prison and I started to freak out. He also started to follow me around places like my work and stuff.

Anyway, that whole thing really has nothing to do with a person I just met asking me to come over and drink. If it was someone I knew, I would. I get wasted with people I know all the time. But if you do get wasted, you put yourself in a vulnerable position. I would not want to be in a vulnerable position with someone I had just barely met because they could be a sex-crazed parolee (that's how the parolee story ties in). If you have your faculties about you, at least you have a chance to escape a dangerous situation if the person you don't know turns on you.

As an epileptic, I've never even tasted alcohol. I may go watch him get drunk though. Drunk people acting like idiots=funny

Free booze? I'm there man!

I can't be swayed by peer pressure and, although I'm an older Aspie, I NEVER could. In fact, nobody can talk me into doing anything unless I feel it's something I want to do. Then nobody can talk me OUT of it I don't drink. My answer would be "no." I never wanted to fit in so badly that I drank or did recreational drugs. I figured I was screwed up enough and didn't need additional problems, plus I thought I was at high risk to abuse.

QFT.

Qualified Funeral Trust?

Quantitative Feedback Theory?

Quantum Field Theory?

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Never did social D&D,Never will.

Never did social D&D,Never will.