dear wishing's child:
for ant it was not a phase. he started pot at age 13, moved onto ecstacy, coke, crack, heroin, LSD, special K, vicodin and oxycontin abuse, meth, you name the drug, he tried it. he injected heroin into his wrist at age 18 and spent two days in the hospital from the overdose.
his drug use led him all over the USA living homeless in dangereous situations, getting sexually transmitted disease, and fathering Kaleb...who is now 3 and living on welfare.
drugs led him to drink underage and he got three DUIs. that lead to over two yrs in adult jail.
drugs got him over 10,000.00 in fines and he has lost his license til he is 34 so he has to beg rides anywhere he wants to go. he must work and pay fines or he will go back to jail.
so it is not a phase. I love him. I tried to stop him like standing in front of a train moving fast. no luck.
I sent him to three schools, three psychiatric grps, had friends in for him, paid whatever it took, prayed and cared for him and now his son as well. I never screamed at him, I cried and begged and stood by him. I wiped the blood off him several times when he was beat up while high.
pot is the start of something very scarey and some people cannot stop once they start.
my son is now 24, he works daily and lives in his own apartment but he is hanging by a financial thread. he once had a full paid college scholarship including room board and books. drugs took that too. he is smart, from a nice neighborhood.
your mom might yell because she is terrified about where this might take her child one day. I know it is easy to get, heck I was a child of the 70's. doesnt mean you need to go down that path.
one day you will have a child you love more than your own life and you will also do what it takes to protect them. so I now say to you as softly as I used to say to lil ant:
could u plz think about what it does for u???