Drugs

Laramie is such a small town that everyone’s business is pretty much known.  There are many young people who drink and do some drugs.  Most of my friends and I avoid that scene normally.  Every once and a while we will try some things out but none of us are consistent users.  People always say that kids in small towns are more likely to try recreational drugs because they have nothing better to do, but I don’t think that is how Laramie is.  There are no more drug users here then there are back home, which was a much bigger city.

I mostly stick to drinking which is all okay since I am of age.  I know a few guys from around town, Aaron and Russell who seem to be pretty big into drugs.  I have been around them a little when hanging out at fireside and just being in such a small town.  They seem to do more hard core drugs than many of the young people around Laramie.  They have never seemed to be violent or act too weird when they are high, so they have never presented themselves as a risk to me.  But the drugs are letting them take themselves too far in life, they are kind of held back at low pay jobs.  They are capable of so much more and I wish they would try harder to avoid the drug addict life.  I only hope that as they grow up they will realize the harm they are causing themselves and their families, Aaron had a child and a wife.  But, they are only twenty- one so they have so time seeing that they aren’t causing too much harm around Laramie.