As it turns out, the declines have not only lasted but have dropped further.
Nancy Reagan must be rolling in her grave.
After all the D.A.R.E.
classes that taught children the proper way to ingest their substance of choice.
Effectively erasing all the hard work she did to paint drugs in the most enticing light possible.
Now the kids are sober.
Hope you’re happy Joe Biden.
Sorry I’m not even sure where I was going with that paragraph.
My joke of a point didn’t really come together the way I hoped.
Maybe kids don’t find Snoop Dogg as cool as they used to.
There’s certainly less of a stigma around it.
Parents are definitely smoking more openly nowadays.
If I could have kept a tiny rig in my pocket and at anytime just ducked into a bathroom.
The Bowling Green Bobcats high school golf team was decimated by that.
We could have won state that year.
Especially because I had thrown down on the sack they got busted with.
I wasn’t even in the car that night.
Then I got called up to varsity, which I should NOT have been that year.
I lost our team a chance at state and was out $20.
Today’s kids have no idea what we used to put ourselves through to smoke weed.
In hindsight, that’s what made it so fun.
But it sucked at the time.
Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m almost insulted that kids aren’t doing drugs anymore.
And now they’re just going to abstain?
Because of what, their futures?
Because they’d rather live life with a clear head instead of spending their formative years as complacent zombies?
It’s probably fentanyl’s fault more than anything.
Instant death was never on the table when I was a kid.
This single picture has probably done more to keep kids off drugs than Just Say No & D.A.R.E.
Back in my day, if you were going to O.D.
you’d have to earn it.
I know I’m kinda talking about two different things here.
People don’t really have to worry about their weed being laced with fentanyl.
But it all falls under the drugs umbrella.
In general, drugs are scarier now than they’ve ever been.
I never saw videos like this growing up.
Even the weed is way stronger.
Maybe that’s it.
It just puts you on your ass too much to be enjoyable.
I used to smoke in the morning and have a full-ass day.
32-year old me can’t even smoke without spending an hour contemplating every decision I’ve ever made.
Whatever it is, kids don’t seem to be doing drugs at the rate they used to.
So assuming those are accurate, Isupposekid’s doing less drugs is a good thing.
But apparently that’s the direction society is headed.
