"While the younger students here don't talk about using those kinds of substances that much, I find that the older kids make a lot of jokes about smoking, snorting, and even injecting a whole assortment of things, usually drugs. I sometimes even overhear some students bragging about finding their parents' stash of weed, and planning parties where they take the edibles together. I find that they don't take drugs very seriously, and I don't think I blame them, either. All of these P.S.A.s, these anti-drug, smoking, or vaping posters, they're always trying to scare people. While I think that fear can work, everything that tells people "no" just seems like too much. Yes, if you consume enough meth or cocaine, your face can droop or burn, but these anti-drug campaigns make it seem like trying cocaine once practically turns you into a zombie! Kids aren't dumb, they all realise that the effects aren't that bad. But that's the problem, when these kids know the effects of hard drugs aren't as bad as they're told, they downplay the real consequences to a nearly harmless point. I don't think that anything other than weed should be legal. Instead, we should properly teach kids about drugs, not just scare them!"
