Re: The Facts re: Sammy's Pills

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Both of those, as I understand it, are very popular these

May 5, 2012, 1:34 PM

days a recreational drugs as well as being used for their intended purpose. Maybe Sammy was using them to cram for exams, or he could have just been using them (as many do) to get high and keep the party going.

Though not a totally harmless, benign substance, I think pot should be legalized. Millions of people have smoked weed recreationally over the past 50 years with little or no ill effect. Granted, some have certainly been affected, especially with excessive use and or if they already have behavioral or emotional problems, but the same is much more true with alcohol, which is of course, legal at a certain age.

So, while smoking weed occasionally is probably part of the college experience for thousands, and is for the most part harmless and should not be a crime, it is still illegal, and until all the facts are known, possessing Adderall and Vyvanse shouldn't be blown off.

If Sammy is too much into getting high and hanging around with the drug dealers and the wrong crowd, then this is a real big deal. If he has only smoked pot on rare occasions and a friend gave him an Adderal to help him cram for exams, it's not nearly such a big deal.

Right now, we just don't know which it is, but he needs to understand very clearly what is a stake for him going forward.

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Taking pills to study for exams was probably the only real illegal thing I can remember doing in college. Not sure how many I took since that was 40+ years ago, but it was several. I knew it was illegal, but I didn't want to fail the exams either. I can almost see the pills for studying even though it's wrong. Flunking out of college is a bigger issue IMO, so I'd probably do it again if I needed to do that.

That said - some of my closest friends were drug pushers, and I never, ever touched any drugs other than those pills. I was perfectly happy with beer/alcohol. Of course, I was too stupid to know that if they got caught and I was with them, then I could have been arrested too even though I wasn't doing anything illegal. Being young has some disadvantages sometimes. You can't learn all the rules fast enough.

The Facts re: Sammy's Pills