There was plenty of alcohol at my high school and pot was pretty easy to come by as well. I didn't do anything, the couple of times I tried alcohol the only affect was nausea and I hated the taste. Thus I became the designated driver like everywhere. I was around people who smoking pot and doing LSD, but it didn't look especially fun. The LSD in particular seemed to elicit some after school special badness, the last high school party I went to (as a College Freshman home during the summer) had some people doing LSD and it went really bad. My friend and I did some first aid for a couple of people and then got the hell out of there.

I knew a couple of kids who drank Robitussin in high school. One guy was actually nicknamed "Robo." Now *that's* pathetic. There was alcohol, pot, LSD and shrooms, but only a couple of kids who had a rep for coke (class of '90). Although in 1985 two kids from my high school went to Columbia for spring break and tried to smuggle home a surfboard hollowed out and filled with cocaine. It made 60 Minutes!

Personally, I never had more than an occasional family-based glass of wine before college, and have never done any illegal drugs except that one time I was passed a joint but didn't inhale (because I didn't know how!) mr. flea will be the one discussing recreational drug use with our children.

When I was in high school I only knew of alcohol consumption. Which I avoided because I was always the driver. Later I found out there had been pot smoking at my high school as well.

It wasn't until I was a junior and senior in college that I ran into the other stuff....

College was much more sedate, there was drinking, but, at least with the people I hung with, it just social drinking.

There was all kinds of stuff in my high school -- and I know nothing about how easy it was because I did notheing. I was a goody. I didn't get drunk until it was legal.

I didn't get drunk until it was legal.

Heh. The first time I got drunk was about 8 months after I became legal (the drinking age was 18 in Wisconsin then).

Coke was pretty easy to get when I was in high school (in the DC area during the Marion Barry era, natch), but I don't think it was very common in my particular school. Or maybe I just didn't get invited to those sorts of parties.

I have no idea about the drugs in my high school. I was offered a pill of some sort when I was a freshman, but I just stared at the guy, wondering "Why is he wanting me to have that?" Naivete has its uses. I graduated in '79, in extremely rural Southwestern Pennsylvania.

I saw various stuff in college, but mostly pot and booze. I'm sure other stuff was around, but we were never introduced.

Alcohol was commonly available during high school. I'm not even sure if we were explicitly forbidden from drinking during lunch hour if we were allowed off premises. Although it was a goody two shoes school, so it was certainly strongly implied.

Never saw any of my classmates do any illegal drugs, but I'm sure they were, just not when I was looking. Just alcohol.

Illegality didn't start showing up close to home until university, where it pretty much all showed up, right away.

I'm sure a kid could have gotten a variety of things at my school, even from some of the "good" grade-grubbing type kids that people get psyched if you hang with. But not a Class Mascot like me in high school. They liked me, but not enough to do illicit things with. so in college, I learned ten years of stuff in one.