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I had some friends in high school, and during my first couple of year in college who where in the BBS scene who started experimenting with heroin. They started smoking heroin because it was cheaper than pot, and they started smoking pot because they couldn't get beer as easily. All three of them ended up addicted, 2 of them where only into 'smoking' heroin, the third started injecting it. The first guy, who was/is insanely smart, just stopped, but went through severe withdrawal--he learned his lesson when I bumped into him a decade later. The second guy was from an insanely wealthy family, whose family eventually sent him to rehab. The third guy is still a junkie as far as I heard.

I never started because of the education/indoctrination by Nancy Reagan's "just say no." I just said no thanks when offered, and was only able to watch as these guy's lives spiralled out of control.