the unprotected no sane person would deliberately exposed to it no intelligent person would venture within striking distance of its fangs yet today young people are floating with  one of the potentials for illegal drug trafficking is the school here the connection can be found with these peddlers of misery who prey on the unwary the uninformed the curious the thrill seeking most young people will continue to li immune how does it happen where does it stop one of the side the pattern is generally the same take a lack of responsibility the inability to make right choices i add to it ignorance and indifference  it off with a desire for a scape ism and kicks the sum total is then conceivably found in the bennies the rape or the part needed take john scott's he'd be the first to laugh at the thought of his being before the last exam he knew a couple of pennies to have him up but so once everybody knows a couple can't do any harm what he should have known is that not only are barbiturates dangerous to his nervous system but they destroy the inner resources he has now to overcome the obstacles of daily life but he's too busy with his girl his car sports the little problems he has don't seem too important he knows he's failing in english and on the borderline that but he's not really worried he knows he'll be ok on the next exam sure he'd be willing to come for extra instruction on saturday but that it is his practice day is doing well in track and he feels he will do better with more training and practice he might even get to represent the school in the state final but word has come down that it's great fun too unless he brought them up he can be put off the team a nominal enough problems for the normal enough get the bucks a little harder get a little help and hold them up till i mean giving up some fun and weekends but he knows he can do it if necessary he can cram a few days before the exam and even himself up on bennett he handled him before and he knows where to draw the line he knows he'll never go beyond that step but someone else knows john has taken his first step toward someone who is willing to help him take the second and that's where eventually he becomes a member of that tight society of drug addicts to janet seems perfectly natural and innocent to bump into an old classmate he hasn't seen pete since he dropped out of school last year from the looks of him he seems to be doing well on his out of town selling job what john doesn't know is the selling job is pushing dough and the long absence from town isn't there accidental meeting calls for a little celebration and pete has just the thing there's a little private party going on tonight plenty of fun and laughs take a break little it sounds good but today's is father's day off and john needs his help with some school problem if there's another party sometime maybe he can make it there but he isn't interested in some time or maybe foursquare if you want to swing call him right now he's got to split he's got to find fish ready to be hooked victims to supply him with money for the heroin he needs today and tomorrow and tomorrow compared to pete's problems johns and nothing for grades expulsion from the team the frustrations and responsibilities of growing up seem important only to himself all he needs is a little help a little guidance a little understanding but the help the guidance the understanding are not there when he needs it his parents are away just when he this counting on them to be home has problems must wait for tomorrow he can solve them tonight  only he can go just so far alone during his childhood he was loved helped protect it suddenly that now he's in a man's body he's expected to be a man to stand alone on his own two feet he will gladly do but he needs a little push he needs someone to help him over the hump of school work that's troubling today he's had it the studies can wait until tomorrow he knows he can finish and then what he doesn't know is behavior habits formed long ago now taking over the practice of putting things off making excuses checking unpleasant time is strongly it's saturday nights and everyone else is out having fun it's the best excuse in the world to join the party and that terrible label must be avoided at all besides he's never been high on a bed for many never will he can handle the stuff the only trouble is he can't handle so much under the influence of the helen comes through is much more friendly he's flattered by her attentions and her interest in him if he could see her arms scarred by the needle marks she would know she's a high if he can see her police record he would the next step is the garonne they're some of the gang are really blasting bets where the real action is come on and take a look take a trip from the squares fail live a little and see what it's like for yourself the this is the real action the pot party the triggers the grasshoppers the hip ones all gathered in secrecy and flying high as a kinds outside the boundaries of their phony world of kicks is the ever present possibility of discovery this must be avoided at all costs for discovery brings with it the penalties of society shame arrest prison so destroy the evidence not a trace burn it and paper trash that way they can deny possessing the illegal marijuana they can say the flaming can as part of a game they can lie they can swear this time the gang's lucky it's not the law or discovery or problems it's just their supplier pete with his number one check to john his first part party looks exciting everyone seems to be having fun first of all there are no parents no other adults no one to interfere with the fun this is the test the time to separate the man from the boy john's will power individuality character slipping down the drain in their place come the old behavior habits and excuses everybody else is doing it  can handle bennies and beer he should be able to handle a few harmless parts just to see what it's like the natural defenses are crumbling the barriers of caution are beaten down drag it man john surrenders his dignity and lays future on the chopping block not whether it's good or bad or right but if he stopped to think he would see the stupidity of it all now he's too involved  but everything that goes up must come down when john came down he landed with a thud due to the effects of the alcohol in the late hours at the party the following day he was too tired too sick to study now facing another school day he finds the same problems the same responsibilities still with