Teenagers and Drug Use

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smoking and doing nothing. Even though I felt how I felt, I did regress and fall under the peer pressure to smoke “recreationally”.

One of the older members of my new gang family just ironically happened to be my real cousin. Everyone called him Snoop and he was four years older than me. He is one of the higher ranking members of the Crips, but he only stood four foot eleven. But his stature should not or didn’t dictate his role as a leader. He was definitely a hardcore banger and he wasn’t afraid to show it. He always had his crisply folded blue rag in his left back pocket. Even though this was true, he was quick to help out his family. He always warned me about the use of other illicit drugs because of his own wrong doings and experiences while on one of his “trips”. He always told me I was lucky I didn’t live in Stockton, California. Just him being so real and blunt about the adverse affects of the drugs was enough to deter me from even trying any other drug that is ...

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