Quote:Personality and circumstance certainly make a difference. In my case, drug use started at a particularly vulnerable and formative time. Your results may vary. Under no circumstance can my current situation in life be considered a failure. I guess it could be more accurately described as taking a different arc than I had envisioned. My children have no inkling that I ever used. Quite the contrary, they see me as an ardent anti. I take that stance not only based on my experience, but I've yet to hear someone bemoan the fact that they could have been more successful had they smoked pot in high school.