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My youngest son is the most honest about matters like this, with us, since he has seen what it can do to destroy a person, a family, a marriage.

Most of his friends got into drugs at a very young age, and were in and out of jail, way before they were 30 years old. He used to smoke pot in college and flunked out, because pot makes you want to just sit around and smoke pot and eat munchies. He turned his life around and no longer smokes, drinks, cusses, lies, speeds, etc. He is a much more adultlike person than I am! LOL

He works with a group that feeds the homeless in his town, and has been on mission trips, two to Haiti. He went to Miss. and La. after Katrina to help with the clean up. He went to Mexico to help poor people build homes. He went to Arrowhead Ca after fires to help with clean up. He has seen the best and worst of people.

He saw what drugs, alcohol, even pot, did to his friends. Most of them would never touch another drop of wine, even Communion Wine! It was hard for most of them to find a job with arrests and imprisonment on their records.

One of them just got his wife back, she had left him years ago. They are only in their 20s and last month they celebrated one year back together. He never gave up on her.

They are all active in their church. Except for one, who fell back and used drugs and alcohol, beat up his lady, and went back to jail for a year. I haven’t heard how he is doing.

These young men learned at the School of Hard Knocks.

One of our neighbors, CG, 23 years old, was driving drunk and or stoned and had a one car wreck, and he died. Another one was driving under the influence of Xanax and ran into a parked car and the daughter was killed and the son was badly injured. Our neighbor JT was sent to prison for 20 years because he plead guilty. He has been in prison since 2010, an only child, this has been horrible for his mom and dad.

Drugs kill.