Hey, everyone flame me some more, because honestly, I know how you all know me so well.
I'm 17, I've never touched a drug in my life (this includes cigarettes and booze, minus the one time I accidentally drank a gulp of dark beer thinking it was soda at a party). I'm just not interested. I have two ideals I live by: Try not to do anything you'll regret, and Any sort of Vice is a bad thing.
The first reply to me is right. There are lots of kids that spout that crap and don't deserve it, but if I've earned my respect in my house, why shouldn't I be allowed it?
You people fail to realize this is a family-by-family deal here. You're all generalizing and stereotyping. This isn't an airport, this is the Hot Deals forum. Be nice and sociable, dammit.
If my school did random drug tests and I was chosen? Good. I will do it with a puffed chest. They don't personally know me, so I accept that, and I totally understand the reasoning. But I trust my parents, and thankfully they trust me. I never said I was entitled to it, I just happen to have it as a privelidge. Furthermore, I would never hurt my parents in any way, I love them dearly. They've done so much for me.
Many teenagers don't find their parents to be people they can talk to and constantly say the truth. I can honestly say, will much pride, that I have never lied to my parents. Never. Some of you more stereotyping/generalizing folks here may find that funny, but I figure that's why I don't respect you as much as the next upstanding personality I meet anyway.
Whatever. Prejudge all you want.