We were always told stories about princes and princesses, love and romance, once upon a time beginnings and happily ever after endings. But what we weren’t told were stories about peers, family, friends, and about any other person you could ever imagine being lured into, experimenting and possibly dying of addictive substances.

It is said that in the sixth grade an RCMP officer comes to the classroom once to give us all a heart to heart on drugs before we enter the high school. When we met with the officer he started by saying right off the bat that if we are ever pressured into doing drugs, “Just Say No!”. Well what happens if we don’t say no? What happens when it is a potential friend that is asking us? Children won’t run to authorities or tell the teacher on duty that a kid just asked them to smoke a joint with him on library hill! If the child any has common sense he would simply walk away from the situation. But really how m

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