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[CLKD]

Someone mentioned ?[Teresa]? Why is this tolerated?  Where are the parents in all this  ...........

[jaypo]

Unfortunately clkd the parents are on them too,the kids don't stand a chance

[jaypo]

You can only hope these days that drugs won't infiltrate your family,I used to work with drug users and some of them were parents and it used to upset me so so much seeing the way they talked to their children,effing and blinding at them,you just knew that these children didn't have a hope.
Sometimes you think it's a losing battle 😞

[CLKD]

Blame is often frustration.

I never ran with the crowd.  I wasn't allowed to.  I did get the 'drugs' discussion B4 I began College  ....... but I wasn't going to do things simply because others did. 

Friendships are so important from about the age of 9, when children become more aware.  At a time when they are aware that they will move 'up' and hopefully friends will go 'up' too - so being in the crowd is a kind of safety.  By mid-30s I was aware that friendships don't last or they change or people move away ....... but at age 9+ being told that wouldn't have made much difference.  Even though I had friends in the different hobbies who didn't cross over to visiting at home ....... I lived in the moment usually and never though ahead.

Most people think that if they experiment that they can 'get off' or 'stop smoking' but sadly, find out that isn't always the case.  My sister was the same with ciggies ........ always said that she could stop when she wanted then would be caught ........ alcohol the same.  Fortunately my anxiety didn't take me that way.

I am aware that in the Midlands many Schools have sniffer dogs attending several times a day, at the Gates or inside the premises.  It is said that the local burger van traded things as well as burgers, it stood a few yards from the secondary school.  It had a Licence so couldn't be moved on ...... apparently.  A lad was stabbed not far from this van about 5 years ago ........... of course, talk was that it was drug related 

I suppose the message is, why do what others want you to do? and if you don't feel comfortable about a situation, tell friends that you will wait a few days.  That way the young person can watch what happens to others in relation to their actions.


One can't avoid sounding like one is a) nagging and b) of course, adults don't know much do they 

[CLKD]

One can smell it  .  'cool' meaning what exactly  ..........

I wrote a huge spieill which disappeared   

I suppose the thing to do is ask what the child in question sees as his/her future.  How they hope to achieve their dreams, say in the next 3 months and what they can see would stop them getting there?  Treating our young people as adults is important.  I saw a comment recently in a daily paper that a woman realised quite soon after birthing her first child that she had delivered a young person, not a baby ......... it had arrived with it's own thoughts, hopes, dreams that would gradually emerge as it grew. 

[CLKD]

  - I didn't step out of line .... didn't dare, too many people knew me  . I would have got a clout on my return home. I didn't want to rock the boat anyway, that altered as I aged and needed to stand up for myself.  That would be oh, around mid 30s 

We used to go to music festivals and the smell wafting across the field  .   . We were offered spliffs but as we didn't smoke we shook our heads but I could smell it ........ characteristic. 

I suppose we are invincible: like road accidents, addiction is something that happens to others. 

[jaypo]

That's the problem clkd,we were scared to step out of line in case we got hugely into trouble,unfortunately these days it's the parents afraid of their children

[jaypo]

Haha me too Stella, I never even swore in front of my mum.........EVER!!
It's all you can do CG,if they get good influences at a young age then you've done you're best but not much you can do about who they fall in with as they get older.
Also,if you watch police programmes etc,the way they talk to the police,blimey,if I ever saw a policeman when I was a child I was in awe of them

[CLKD]

Because Police didn't hide in vehicles, there were on bicycles  and would creep up behind with an "OI!"

Whilst we know that children are aware of drugs etc., I don't think they can feel what it is like until for many, it's too late.  Unlike alcohol which can be shared in homes, parents in general can't give kids an idea of what it might be like within the confines of their homes.

[CLKD]

  I'd rather smell their choice  ......... I've had enough bad side effects from prescribed drugs  and have never been clubbing.  I wouldn't have tried anything though, that's not hindsight but simply how I am 

[Tc]

.i dont use drugs but I know how I could get my hands on anything I chose  in 10 minutes flat. Its everywhere.
But having said that I knew where I  could get them if I wanted inside and outside the school gates 40 years ago the only difference is they've now   got cheaper and stronger.
 

[CLKD]

Your Mum - in the labour suite - not a good combination then?

[jaypo]

It's spiralling out of control unfortunately,we had over 100 addicts in our pharmacy and that's just for one tiny area,methadone is NOT the answer,I think the public think it's a cure,it's not,it's a heroin substitute and the majority of users were still taking other drugs on top of it,a tiny and I mean tiny % would come off altogether as for the rest,well,it was their free “fix”

[CLKD]

Would this headline put youngsters off?

'Street cannabis 'contains dangerous amount of faecal matter' ........

[sheila99]

Would this headline put youngsters off?

'Street cannabis 'contains dangerous amount of faecal matter' ........

If they knew what faecal meant... 🤔