Whats up with suburban drug use

Whats up with the kids of today?! Assuming your young twenties is still considered being a kid (and i would like to think it is,) then us kids is gettin' stupider by the day. Millions of kids are starving and have large problems to confront and overcome in less fortunate areas of the world, and kids and young adults are abusing the quality of life they have become accustomed to. In reaction to this displaced mind-set of lowering the health of your life because of the high quality of life, I must say I am not surprised. When you don't have to walk 15 miles in the snow just to get to school and back like grampa did, then kids get complacent, and when the video games aren't fun anymore, your sick of street hockey, and mom and dad have become trusting of your good-nature ( to some degree at least ) then suddenly smokin' a pipe full of illegally enticing whacko tabacco sounds like a fun adventure.

Speaking of tobacco: a lot of people talk about marijuana being a gateway drug. I think that tabacco is a bigger gateway drug than marijuana ever was, or nicotine to be specific. That first rush of nicotine after inhaling a puff is basically the first time an addict gets high. Then comes the marijuana, then comes the speed, then comes the booze, cocaine, heroin, and meth. I have seen first hand how, what was generally considered an overall "good kid" can go from that good kid into one of the trouble makers in a flash. Now I know some young adults can get away with just "expirementing," but when this happens to these kids with addictive behaviors it seems like it is almost irreversible! Like some sort of super mutant breed of obsessed drug using trouble makers. But seriously, can you tell the difference between a child experimenting, or an addict thats gone too far before it is too late? From a parents perspective you need to know that children have to learn to not only just say no, but why that decision to say no can save them so many headaches, and that the overall sense of well-being you get in the beginning stages of use is actually a shroud for the misery they will cause. The false sense of drugs being "good" can lure you in far enough until before long, they are in control of an un-managable lifestyle.