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

i used to think (in like, 5th grade)that when you were "stoned" because of drugs that meant that your drug dealer would throw rocks at you because you hadnt payed him. haha.

[s][t][u][p][i][d][i][t][y]...my anti drug.

I used to think that if someone gave you acid, you could completely counter the effects by taking an antacid.

abracadaver

I used to get LSD and STDs confused!! So one day we had an AIDS prevention lesson at school, and the teacher said "AIDS is an STD" I immediatley raised my hand (I was very proud to know what LSD was) and said "My dad told me that people in the 60's had STDs and they would see stuff and then write songs about them." The teacher was very confused.

Amber

I was in kindergarten when the "Don't Use Drugs" campaign was a national craze in public schools. In one of our weekly "drug education" sessions, my teacher told us something about a drug called "ice" that could kill you if you took it. I don't know why my rural elementary school felt the need to educate five-year-olds about the various names of street drugs, but from then on I thought that consuming frozen water would kill me. I think I had gone through half of the school year before my mom figured out why I was afraid of ice cubes.

Sarah S

When I was little during the "war on drugs" there was a Flintstones special on TV about drugs and peer pressure.
A boy on the program showed a character three marijuana joints.

I thought they were lemon wedges, and I didn't understand why they were so bad.

persephone

As a 14 year old listening to "classic" Aerosmith albums I thought the line "sleeping late and smoking tea" from "Mama Kin" actually meant smoking tea leaves. Needless to say I spent many an afternoon rolling up my Mom's Orange Pekoe in looseleaf paper tring to catch a buzz!

Anon

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 little, someone made a comment about kids going behind the middle school to "do pot". I always envisioned a group of teenagers in the woods hanging around a big boiling, bubbling witch's cauldron (you know, the "pot").

emily

my grandmother had arthritis, and one time when i was visiting her she said something about needing to go to the pharmacy to get her drugs. i had never heard medicine referred to as "drugs" before, so i got really upset because i thought my grandma was some kind of druggie!

architect

When I was 14 my chemistry teacher asked our class what THC was. I raised my hand and almost fell out of my seat because I thought I knew the answer. I said "Isn't it used in hairspray?" The whole class laughed and he said "Dear you've got yourself some good hairspray!"

melissa

I used to make sure the covers were pulled up over my mouth so that "bad guys" wouldn't come in at night and drop drugs in my mouth. Right, like they'd waste free drugs on some kid.

paid dearly later

My mother worked in a drug rehab facility when I was young. I fully believed that instead of marischino cherries, the name was marijuana cherries and no one bothered to correct me until much later in life because my parents thought it was hilarious.

Anon

i grew up during the heavy anti-drug propaganda. amidst all the 'drugs are bad' & 'don't do drugs' slogans, they had forgotten to differentiate drugs from medicines.

i was appalled when we drove by a pharmacy with a large, publicly visible "Drug Store" sign.

jes

When I was around seven, one of my friends was goofing off during Crafts and managed to hit me smack on the upper lip with a gob of glue. I burst into tears and told her I was going to die, because she had made me sniff glue.

Just another Anon