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.

I drank a little in high school, senior year, mostly. And it was all about the wine cooler baby! I supported Bartles & Jaymes. There was also the memorable night when I drank almost an entire bottle of gin by myself. No, I don't drink gin after almost 20 years, why do you ask?

Whippets are so much more available than alcohol -- I mean, access to whipcreme was not restricted.

My school was a much bigger alcohol place than pot. I tend to think that might be true for many high schools (though, naturally not all, as Jesse pointed out above) then and now.

I graduated HS in 1981, and 18 was the legal drinking age. My BFF and I made a big ritual out of getting drunk for the first time, us and two guys we were/weren't dating. I recall pronouncing the wine "soda pop" and picking up the whiskey. My awareness of the events after that is limited to the photographs. Apparently, when I get really wasted, I take my clothes off.