I used to think people did drugs and dumped toxic waste just to be evil, because no one ever explained why they *really* did it. (I also thought I was going to ride an ostrich in heaven. Actually, I still think that.)

Moro

When I was a kid, I thought drugs and antibiotika was the same thing. I'ts because the Norwegian name for a type of drug is Narkotika. I thought antibiotika and narkotika was the same thing, so I believed that doing drugs was okay until i became elleven and started to understand the difference

Notadrugaddickt

My mum was prescribed steriods by the doctor. Then our teacher tlod us about drugs and ll the different kinds. I was affraid that they would lock my mum up so I told her that we had to run away to americia

Strange Kid

When I was dating my boyfriend we went to the country so he could introduce me to his mother. She told me stories about her sister and them going to the bar and coming home stoned.

So I leaned over to my boyfriend and whispered your mom is really with it. I didn't know she does drugs. My boyfriend giggled and said No! She meant they were drunk. Well I never heard that term used before to describe drinking. It's a good thing I didn't say anything about her being a New Wave type Mom!

Anon

It was in Jr. High when i first heard of "weed" and "grass". Kids would talk about smoking it and it being illegal. I would wonder how can it be illegal, it's everywhere, it grows on everyone's lawn. And I thought why would you want to smoke grass, dogs pee and poop on it. It wasn't until highschool that i found out that "grass" wasn't literally grass. ( i never smoked it)

Tootietilla

My wife's maid-of-honor had no idea what GHB (date rape drug). Once while at a party, my brother-in-law added sum rum to her soda bottle, put the cap back on, and handed it to her. She asked what it was and he told her "It's your soda, but I put GHB in it." She thought it was some type of alcohol and professed at her difficulty opening the cap:
"I can't open my GHB with my nails on!"

Anon

I used to believe that joints were just regular cigarettes. I was 6 and my friend who was about 12 handed me a joint and I took a few tokes. And then I felt guilty and ran home to my mom telling her I smoked a cigarette, need less to say she found out it was weed and my friends dad went to prison for selling his daughter weed.

Anon

i was little when they used to show those anti drug commercials that showed an egg and said it was your brain, and then they showed the egg frying, and said that this was your brain on drugs, any questions? i took it literally. i refused to eat eggs. i started experimenting with drugs when i was like 16. right before i turned 18, i ate scrambled eggs for the first time. the morning after me and one of my friends were up all night pill popping.

2206

i used to beleive that sweets were drugs and if you eat them you would go to prison.my mum backed me up,and i when i saw a kid buyin a packet of sweets i nearly foned the police untill my mum told me she was lying.i didnt beleive her and called her a lier and didnt touch sweets again.

xXxXxXsweetsarebadxXxXxX

I used to think that LSD was a form of marijuana.

Shirley B.

In school they taught my newphew that alcohol is a drug. So one day he annouced to his teacher that his Daddy does drugs. My SIL was mortified!

Anon

When I was young I was convinced by someone that if you took LSD you could "see" sound moving around the room and it was in different colours. For a long time afterwards I would wonder a) How I could make it happen without LSD (or any other drug) b) What it would look like (different sounds different colours? Soft waves or zigzaggy lines?) and c) Whenever I watched a program about drugs on TV that this was never mentioned.

I've never taken LSD, but I am assured by friends who have that this does not happen .....

Anon

When I was about six I heard my parents and their friends in the next room light up some pot to smoke when they thought I was asleep. I was petrified that the police would come any minute to arrest them (my parents didn't usually smoke pot, their friends brought it). I smelled the strange smell of the smoke and covered up my face with the pillow because I figured that then I wouldn't breathe any in.
I figured that if I didn't breathe it in the police couldn't arrest me!
(of course they never came)

Carrie

i used to believe... that if I smushed bread into a ball it would turn into dope (like marijuana)... and I was too scared to eat it.

My mom called it dough when it was smushed and I was confused.

Dope (Dough) head

bannana skins toasted was supposed to be an alternative to marijuana - I never found it so

Terrie from South Shields, UK

sober meant that somebody cried alot

Anon

Admittedly, I never knew much about drugs until I was about 11 or 12, so when the Acid House thing was about I thought nothing of going around screaming "aciiid" - it seemed so innocent, especially with that smiley face everywhere.

Spacey

When i was about 7 my older cousin (9 year) who was wery found of Jimmy Henrix told me that dope or junk was small pills like whole blackpepper and when your chewed them it make a cracking sound. For that they called them dope or junk.

Maria

An american friend of mine ( im british) Was convinced that redbull containd speed. She also thought that was why she felt auful in the morning after drinking MANY Redbulls. The fact that each one had a dobel vodca in it never crossed her mined. We were 18 so not teknicly kids, but hay.

Anon

Me and my friend think that Mini Pickles and Orange tic-tacs are drugged!!! We had ate tons of mini pickles and orange tic-tacs and we started acting drunk/high (aka laughing hysterically at everything and saying iGat, Gat apple stylie!" etc)
so to this day we think that pickles are cured in alcohol and tic tacs are orange pills.

iGat!!!!