<p>What are your views? Do you drink/smoke? Will you in the future? </p>
<p>I have pretty easy access to pot and alcohol based on my school/friends, but simply choose not to do them. I feel like high school kids aren't mature enough for alcohol, and the parties with alcohol will just be... immature and terrible lol :D</p>
<p>As for weed, most of my friends smoke it but I don't... guess I just feel like I shouldn't do anything unnecessarily illegal? Also I feel like I shouldn't temper with my body's senses just to have fun.. there are better ways to have fun for sure. I don't want to indulge unnecessarily </p>
<p>But I feel like my views are contrived because I see myself drinking and being less resistant to weed in college. </p>
<p>Drinking/smoking is just a choice that some people make. I feel like in high school, those choices reflect the kind of person you are. Those who drink/smoke in high school are less likely to be academically focused, etc. But in college, kids realize that it’s just a way to have fun and pretty much has nothing to do with how you are as a person. I personally just haven’t felt any compulsion to drink or smoke pot, and I hope to keep it that way.</p>
<p>“temper with body’s senses just to have fun”
everything you do is tempering with body senses fyi (not being a dick, just pointing this out)</p>
<p>pot is ok, as long as you don’t start messing with the deadly **** (meth). it’s healthier than alcohol but is “taboo” (aka illegal). just whatever you do, be smart and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>No to pot forever and no to alcohol until 21. I don’t think I’ll drink a lot when I’m 21 either lol. I don’t like the idea of being easily influenced… I’m crazy enough as it is :P</p>
<p>I hate that stereotype. I have great grades, but I party sometimes too. I guess you guys will have to wait to experience the joy of being drunk with a bunch of friends till college.</p>
<p>I will probably never do pot, since… it’s nasty.
But alcohol…? Perhaps. Most likely. My parents have an allergy to yeast, so beer may be out for me, but who knows?</p>
<p>I drink and smoke weed occasionally. I agree with dfree about the stereotyping. I am very academically focused, and I’ve been working my butt off this semester to get straight As with a very tough schedule. But on the weekends, I like to relax, and one of the ways I like to do this is by temporarily altering my state of mind. When I’m high or drunk, I don’t think about anything stressful; I’m able to temporarily block out all the stress of the schoolweek. I never smoke or drink on weekdays, though, and I have never smoked a cigarette, nor will I ever. That’s gross.</p>
<p>Most of my school (probably like 40%?) smokes pot. Not sure about drinking. I’ll never smoke pot; mostly cuz of the illegality and that I don’t wanna screw my life up (my dad is relatively intelligent and a great entepreneur, but after the all the pot his life isn’t as good as he expected. He still makes like 80-90k without a high school diploma but…) but also the smell makes me wanna throw up. Alcohol, probably not till 21-definetly not in high school.</p>
<p>Pot breeds apathy, and all the kids I know that drink are spoiled, rich kids with lazy parents. But I agree with the poster, I don’t have strong feelings against them. I’ve just noticed characteristics in these kids.</p>
<p>I’m probably smoking or drinking twice a week atleast and here’s how it has affected my grades:</p>
<p>G9 - Barely drinking and not smoking | 2.5 GPA
G10 - Drinking a little more, and started smoking occasionally | 3.0 GPA
G11 - Drink and smoke much more often | 3.5 GPA
G12 - At my peak | 3.75 GPA so far</p>
<p>I actually disagree with many of the people on this thread because I think that enjoying myself with liquor and weed has really helped me understand things differently. Trust me, doing your calculus homework high is actually fun! Moreover, the fact that my brain may have been addled by these drugs doesn’t really worry me that much. Intelligence isn’t an actual figure that goes down by a certain amount each time you smoke- it just doesn’t work like that. </p>
<p>All this said, I have many friends that only do one or don’t do either who are still extremely fun to hang out with.</p>
<p>I totally agree with dfree124, i party a little, maybe once or twice a month, and drink very little-only sweet drinks, i am still the valedictorian of my class. No pot though.</p>
<p>Only a select few do it on a regularly. Most days, every time you walk past the bathrooms you can smell the pot. I don’t plan to drink nor do pot, I think It’s pointless, it doesn’t get you anywhere.</p>
<p>I do a pretty large amount of both, though I’ve been holding off on weed since lately it’s been making my anxiety ramp up. Honestly, it’s up to individual bodies whether or not they are capable of being at their “peak” performance while using it. And as to the “risk” involved, if you’re responsible on any level it is not hard to take it too far, and you have to be pretty inattentive to get caught.
To each his own.</p>
<p>It sounds like a cop out, but I can’t smoke ANYTHING. In my old age (18), I have been stricken with asthma and have trouble breathing even while doing something so seemingly innocuous as roasting marshmallows on an open fire.</p>
<p>Running four and half minute miles doesn’t set it off, but smoke does. Go figure.</p>
<p>And drinking destroys braincells. So that’s that.</p>