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When I was growing up, even in a very Christian conservative household, my mother was very open to me about drugs and what they meant. She related her own experiences as well as that of people she knew clearly, honestly, and without scaremongering. From that, I had a passing interest in LSD that I never acted on, but everything else sounded rather... not worth the trouble.
In middle school, back in the mid-2000s, we had water bottles banned because of kids bringing in vodka in them. By high school, we had regular bomb threats. Good times!
Yeah, sounds similar to our approach sans religion. Kids got some messed up stuff to deal with. I grew up with the threat of nuclear annihilation. Terrifying, but impersonal. Now kids have to deal with the possibility of being shot, or hear it happening to a friend or classmate. Someone might pipe up and give a bullshit reason about statistics and how unlikely it is. I can tell you I never had a nuke fall on my school, but there’s kids shot plenty enough.