Drugs, Lego, Testicles etc.

This is too complicated a metaphor for an anti-drug video.

Drugs are like lego?

I never really wanted to write a post about drugs, but here I am doing it. So fuck it.

When you start taking drugs it’s fairly natural to think about drug education and why it apparently didn’t work particularly well for you. I first knew about the effects of drugs after hearing that that my friend’s dad had taken esctasy and jumped up and down their marital bed for an hour, which to be honest sounded like awesome fun.

My drug education took a far more sinister and inexplicable turn later in Primary School when we had a fireman come give us a lecture on things not to do i.e: climb trees, set things on fire, set ourselves on fire, take drugs, put our heads in plastic bags (incidently, how many times did you get told not do that?! Who do you know that EVER suffocated from a bag over the head)?

…I’m not totally sure that firemen have the authority to give talks on anything other than fire safety. But anyway, this fireman started lecturing us about flames in wooded areas and things and then, most memorably, he told us innocent 10 year old children to watch out when walking the streets in case of treading on a hypodermic needle previously used to inject heroin, lest we catch AIDS. Yes, REALLY.

What was I talking about again?

Oh yeah, so instead of being afraid to take drugs I was afraid to tread on anything sharp, which I wasn’t particularly into doing before that anyway.

My secondary school drug education was mixed in with a whole day’s talk that went something like:

Don’t do drugs, Don’t have sex and Check your tits for tumors

Best bit of that information day was when fake bollocks were thrown into the assembly hall, so we could feel for cancerous lumps (nice) . A pair of plastic knackers hit this girl right in the face. Balls right between the eyes. Good times.

Anyway, the drug bit just implied that if I smoked a joint one day I’d pretty much be injecting heroin into my urethra within the week. Turns out not really, but if you smoke weed everyday you’ll probably eventually take everything but the ‘bad drugs’ (meth/coke/smack) once you get to University (sorry, but it’s true, but you probably won’t die so it’s cool, trust me). It might fuck a few other things up though.

I can’t really remember where I was going with this…

I kind of feel ambivilant about the whole drug thing because half of my friendship group is held together tenuously by mutal drug use, which is completely shitty. One of the most hurtful things that’s ever happened to me is knowing that one of my ex-best friends claims she had a bad trip on acid because I was around, and we weren’t getting on particularly well at the time. The thought of that really fucks me up. The reason we weren’t getting on was partially my fault for not dealing with things well, and it’s like I affected her on an existential level that I can’t really ever do anything about. Dark.

I reckon that’s about all I wanna say about this now actually.