The Choice I Made; Drugs and Children
Sure there’s weed that just about everyone tries at one point or another in their lives, but in this city, at my school, just about everyone was a heavy smoker, both cigs and weed, and we were all only fifteen to eighteen years of age, this is not okay. You should know, I’m from the city of Chattanooga, yes the one with the fastest Internet in the world, a city that also has a very high violent crime rate and drug use per citizen. You can find almost anything in my city from weed to meth and everything in between, something that isn’t advertised when people talk about how amazing, beautiful, and technologically advanced the city is. Even in the middle school my senior year of high school a thirteen year old kid was expelled for bringing cocaine in. I always thought to myself, “maybe all the kids I know will just stick to weed I mean that’s what everyone says right? Weed only!” When my friend, Amanda, showed me what she had brought into school one day, I was so pissed and so confused I could only do one thing.
“Look what I have!” Amanda says as she pulls out a small bag full of white powder.”
“Is that cocaine?” I yelled at her when I saw it.
“Sure is! I got it for free cause I know a guy that started selling!”
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I never thought in a million years he would have acted that way, and most people don’t, but it just goes to show you never really do know people. When I finally did go back to school every one either loved me or hated me, but the people that hated me had more of toll because of who they were rather than the people that loved me for choosing to do the right thing. Drugs, even at a young age, are ruining lives, friendships, and minds. Sure you can’t stop everyone from doing what he or she wants, but this whole story happened inside a school. It shows a big lack of support and attention for
Sure there’s weed that just about everyone tries at one point or another in their lives, but in this city, at my school, just about everyone was a heavy smoker, both cigs and weed, and we were all only fifteen to eighteen years of age, this is not okay. You should know, I’m from the city of Chattanooga, yes the one with the fastest Internet in the world, a city that also has a very high violent crime rate and drug use per citizen. You can find almost anything in my city from weed to meth and everything in between, something that isn’t advertised when people talk about how amazing, beautiful, and technologically advanced the city is. Even in the middle school my senior year of high school a thirteen year old kid was expelled for bringing cocaine in. I always thought to myself, “maybe all the kids I know will just stick to weed I mean that’s what everyone says right? Weed only!” When my friend, Amanda, showed me what she had brought into school one day, I was so pissed and so confused I could only do one thing.
“Look what I have!” Amanda says as she pulls out a small bag full of white powder.”
“Is that cocaine?” I yelled at her when I saw it.
“Sure is! I got it for free cause I know a guy that started selling!”
At this point …show more content…
I never thought in a million years he would have acted that way, and most people don’t, but it just goes to show you never really do know people. When I finally did go back to school every one either loved me or hated me, but the people that hated me had more of toll because of who they were rather than the people that loved me for choosing to do the right thing. Drugs, even at a young age, are ruining lives, friendships, and minds. Sure you can’t stop everyone from doing what he or she wants, but this whole story happened inside a school. It shows a big lack of support and attention for