What should I do?

Perhaps I should present my own opinion on the subject instead of formulating an explicit advice.

I am seventeen years old, come from a bourgeois/good-earning household and visit the eleventh grade of a gymnasium. I have also already had my experience with alcohol and cigarettes and partly with illegal drugs. I would say from myself that I am entirely in favour of self-discipline and control and “believe” my consumption in a certain way.

I would like to express myself in this way, especially illegal drugs are generally “confident” and associated with final social descent, which is not appropriate to the actual danger, in my view. The basis for this extreme representation is, on the one hand, the history of drugs in modern times, but on the other hand also the attempt of deterrent. Without having far-reaching knowledge in this area, I think this approach is wrong. In my experience, the real danger, especially for young consumers, only arises when the expected consequences and the expected “feeling of illegality” remain. From this moment on, the naturally inexperienced and not sufficiently enlightened consumer significantly harms the dangers of the drug and is significantly more susceptible to falling into dependence as a consumer who has received a realistic representation of the drug. Conclusio – Enlightenment instead of deterrent, because it leads to curiosity and has always done so.

In addition, their own experiences with consumption in a moderate and excessive manner constitute an invaluable basis for the future children of these people. However, every generation must test their own limits and some overestimate their will and go so far beyond this limit that they can no longer return – this is the social “slaughter”.

You, as a member of the group of friends, can only your disappointment or Partial also expresses disgust over drug use in general. In addition to that, you can only accept it and continue to be a good friend and do not cancel the contact for that reason. Even though I don’t know your friends’ patterns of consumption, I can tell you that after a few years, if not even months, most young people reduce their consumption slowly.

Taking drugs is a degree walk, a game with the fire, some are burning, others only feel the heat of the flames on their skin. but it is the kick of danger, of illegality and of the new, who repeatedly drives. Maybe this calms you or not. Your friends don’t die slowly, they only live very intensively; even if they burn their future.

Among other things, the disappointment and, as I said, the disgust and contempt in the eyes of a pretty good friend has helped me not to forget that I have driven my body further and further into the abyss. Maybe you can be this person for your friends. But you shouldn’t expectedthat they stop or only reduce their consumption. You only open a way where no one was before.