My best friend till college years used to think that hashish is... some venereal disease!! We still lough that unsafe sex can cause hashish!

Dee

I was told that if you paint your cigarettes with nail polish and smoke them you get high. Yeah, right. Gag. Age 60 lungs at age 14.

Glinda

In 7th grade my friend came to me in the morning and she looked a bit sad so I asked what happened. It turned out the morning bus conversation was about 'getting stoned' and when they asked my friend if she knew what it meant she replied yes, it's when stones are thrown at someone until they die. They laughed at her and told her she was wrong. I told my friend that those kids were idiots because that's what 'getting stoned' meant. I didn't find out for another year that it meant smoking pot.

Anon

when i was small i belived my mum was a herion addict because a few times i heard her ask the pharmasist for "herron" which is a brand of mild painkillers

ShannonOfDoom

I thought drug stores sold drugs. I never understood how they could sell illegal drugs.

Diana Rios

When i was 11, i was playing this video game, and one of the stores was a drug store. I thought it was horrible that they had something like that on a kids video game. I only knew about the bad drugs at that time. I was stupidfied to hear, that the stuff at the chemist can also be named drugs.

Anon

When I was 4, I heard about cocaine on the news and I asked what it was... anyway, I was at the beach with my parents and they looked in the sand and said to me "look honey! look at the COQUINA" (coquina are those little shelled animals in the sand) ... well I thought they were saying COCAINE.. so I was yelling "look theres more cocaine!!" ... HAHA.. I then realized when I was a bit older that they were indeed talking about coquina.. haha it was embarassing to think that I said that back then though... xD

strange child

When I was young, there was a lot of public service advertisements about the danger of sniffing glue - it being addictive, and will cause you to suffocate etc.

I took this to heart so much that when we did arts and crafts at school, i used to hold my breath whenever the kid-friendly paper glue was anywhere near me

Anon

You know D.A.R.E. (drug abuse resitance education) that thing they teach in 5th grade where a policeman come in every week and teaches not to use drugs? in the cafeteria of my elementry school they had this bumper sticker on the wall with

D.A.R.E
Drug abuse resistance education

written on it. i couldn't read very well and i probably didn't know what resistance was. for some reason i thought it was telling you to do drugs and i was confused for years untill i finally figured out what it said.

cheezymo

Until about five minutes ago, i used to think smoking a bowl was smoking an entire bowl full of marijuana at one time!

Dan

I used to believe that the pharmacies that said "Drugstore" actually sold illegal drugs, so when my parents went inside to get a disposable camera or something I would be scared to go inside Lol.

Tori

When I was in grade school I believed that the only people who became dope addicts were the ones who'd been absent on the days we watched those films about how bad drugs were. Either that or they just didn't pay very close attention.

toon

When I was little (about 8), I used to think that poppy seed muffins were actually drugs because my grandpa said if I had a muffin like that and took a drug test, I'd be positive. So naturally when I went through the D.A.R.E. program, I was anxious to share my knowledge. When the officer asked "Have you ever seen any drugs before besides alcohol?" to the class (this was when I was 10)I raised my hand. The officer naturally raised his eyebrows and said "Would you care to explain?" and I said
"If you go to a grocery store or bakery, you see those poppy seed muffins! They're out in the open where anyone could get at them! I thought drugs are dangerous and get you into trouble!" Most of my school mates laughed and the officer was too and explained to me that those muffins aren't actual drugs and won't really harm you. (But the drug test thing was true, he told me!)

spades

When I was in 2nd grade, some kids in my class would crush smarties (the candy) and suck them up their noses! They claimed they were "snorting smack".

Cybela

For some utterly bizarre reason, I used to think chewing gum was some kind of drug. When my dad took me with him to the barber shop, the barber always tried to give me a stick of gum...I always let my dad have it. ^_____^

Mizu-chan

I used to see posters that said drug-free... and I thought it meant free drugs... so I was like "Hey mom, that's for you!" because she smoked ciggarettes.

Anon

When I was 5 my dad grew marijuana in his room and I'd always go inside and take a look at it. It was a tall beautiful green plant with an aroma that was TO DIE FOR. I asked my dad what it was and he said it was his garden that I couldn't look at anymore, but I'd always walk in and watch him prunning buds of the plant and weighing them out. I thought that since it was his garden these were the fruits that it bore. So I thought pot was a fruit of some type and dad was putting it in our dinner.

Mike

I used to think that you could get arrested for having a packet of Rizla's that had bits torn off the top...

Patch

when in was little i used to think that cocaine was sugar until i found out what it was

jamie dulake

A few people have said they caught their parents smoking pot but they were a "different kind of cigarette". Well, when I was 5-6, my dad smoked pot, and of course, I thought it was legal, it was just green. I also vaguely remember him saying you could feed it to cows, (maybe I inhaled too much in his small apartment) and so when I was in kindergarten summer school (didn't need it) we were studying farms, and we were gonna have show-n-tell, and I asked my dad if I could bring some....I couldn't though.

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