I used to think that people who experimented with drugs actually put them in test tubes and did chemistry experiments to see what was in them. (I couldn't see how that would be any fun.)

Ralph

When I was about five, our neighbors got busted for growing Marijuana. While we where watching the police take the guys away, I asked my mom what they'd done. She said that they’d been growing grass, meaning the slang term. I, not knowing anything about marijuana nor slang, was both scared and confused. I got scared thinking, "We're growing grass" and then confused when I thought "why are they arresting just these guys, almost everyone has grass!"

David

I used to believe that drug stores sold illegal drugs and I couldn't work out how they got away with it.

Bigg Jase

I used to believe once you were drunk you were drunk forever. So when i was told the Beatles song 'I am the Walrus' was written while they were drunk, i kept asking when they'd written it and which songs they'd written after it as they must have all been written while they were drunk too...

deb

When I was in grade school I would hang out in the park with friend and some of the older kids would smoke pot. My mom asked me if I had ever tried it and I explained I had not. She told me it was a good thing because I would grow women breasts. Also one of the older kids in the neighborhood was already growing them because of this. Although he did smoke pot regularly I believe he was just overweight so I abstained for years believing this.

Anon

I thought the only people who did drugs were people who had tattoos and red pants did drugs. I never wore red pants.

Jenna

When I was about 10 my mum asked me if I would ever sniff glue. I had no idea what she was talking about and so i asked her. She said that if i sniffed glue I would die. When I was about 11, I had a big fight with my parents and I was so wound up, I decided to "Kill myself". I got out my clag glue, wrote a will, took one sniff and convinced i was going to die. I started crying and woke up in bed an hour later, much to my relief!

just bored

i used to think a "joint" you smoke was the same as the joints in your body...i couldn't figure out how you would get one of those out of your body, or how you would smoke it.

leslie anne levine

I used to think "Drug Stores" sold pot, crack, coke, etc. And I always wondered why they weren't worried about having a big sign up that said "Drug Store"--like did they think the police wouldn't see the signs?

Erin

My mom took me to see a screening of "The Wizard of Oz" on the local university campus in the early seventies, when I was about 8. During the movie, my mom said that people were smoking pot. I pictured people sucking on the spout of a teapot, not knowing the term. Had no idea it had anything to do with drugs.

Anon

When I was growing up both of my parents smoked cigarettes, so I was familiar with the concept. When I was about four, I was outside playing in the yard and heard my mother yelling at my older brother. She was getting after him about "smoking grass". I, of course, plucked a bunch of it out of the ground and wondered to myself "now why would anybody want to do that?"

Traci, New Mexico

When I was in 1st grade a DARE officer came to school. He had a huge cabinet full of drugs and was telling the kids how theese were bad and you should never use any of them. I was looking in the cabnet and loudly proclaimed MY DADDY SMOKES cigrettes like that!!
The officers stared at me funny I didnt get it. I had no clue that A joint was not a regular cigrette.

Crystal

I used to believe that Marijuana was a disease you got from smoking.

LMH

When I was a kid I heard that the Beatles did acid and I wondered if they melted from it.

Anon

I used to think that my dad was "smoking pot" when he would smoke his pipe while sitting on the toilet.

Anon

When I was in kindergarten I saw the this is your brain on drugs commercial. (The one with egg in the frying pan) well, one morning my mom made me scrambled eggs for breakfast. I went to school and told my teacher that my mom had made me eat drugs for breakfast. Well, my mom got called to the school and to explain about the commercial and how I had eggs for breakfast.

Lindy

In 6th grade, we took a survey about drugs and alcohol. They were questions like "Have you ever been to a party and drunk alcohol?" and answers were like "a, never; b, once; c; several times" etc. One of the questions was "Have you ever used LSD?" and, thinking LSD was "Legally Sold Drugs" I said "several times" and for the "if yes" question I put "once a week or more".

Eela

At my high school there was a sign saying "Drug Free Zone" and I thought it meant you could get free drugs at the school (I was probably 7 or 8) and I still thought it was weird that the police didn't like come to arrest the drug dealers every day!

Gino

When I was in kindergarten, we had an "anti-drugs" day. I thought my sign was the best in the class. What did it say?
"Don't do AIDS."

AJ

When I was little I thought that illegal drugs must be all kinds of fun flavors. Because why else would people want to take them?

M