[Mitzidupree]

Living once is a matter of perspective. Living once in the same body, and mind, that's still another perspective; to certain cultures, religions, and beliefs.

Drug use is the increasing delinquent among teenagers in today's society, schools, universities. Most drug users begin in the preteen and teenage years, these years most crucial in the maturation process. During these years adolescents are faced with difficult tasks of discovering their self identity, clarifying their sexual roles, assenting independence, learning to cope with authority and searching for goals that would give their lives a meaning. Drugs are readily, adolescents are curious and venerable, and there is peer pressure to experiment, and temptation to escape from conflicts. The use of drugs by teenagers is the result of a combination of factors such as peer pressure, curiosity, and availability.

One of the most important reasons of teenage drug usage is peer pressure. Peer pressure represents social influences that effect adolescents, it can have a positive or a negative effect, depending on person's social group and one can follow one path of the other. People are greatly influenced by the people around them. In today's schools/universities drugs are very common; peer pressure usually is the reason for their usage. If the people in our social group use drugs there will be pressure a direct or indirect pressure from them. A person may be offered to try drugs, which is direct pressure. Indirect pressure is when someone sees everyone around him using drugs and he might think that there is nothing wrong with using drugs. Person might try drugs just to fit in the social norms, even if a person had no intentions of using drugs one might do it just to be considered "cool" by his friends.

That was an observational post.

If it were to me, I say let them. They're free with their lives. But one must be aware of his/her decisions, and influence of others. A liar, thinks everyone lies. A thief, thinks everyone steals. A drug user, wouldn't mind offering drugs to another. Just a smoker wouldn't mind a non-smoking person to start smoking, even if a certain bond joins them together.

So goes the eternal cycle of human evolution.