@CarnessialOnNoiseApp 27 December 2021

I don't drink alcohol. 🍺 I don't smoke tobacco. 🚬 I do not partake any drugs. 💊 However I want to make it clear that I am not a PSA. It is my choice to be abstinent of such unnecessary, disgusting habits. I believe that adults should have their own decisions whether or not they want to partake of such activities. What I absolutely cannot stand is being pressured by peers to partake against the individual's wishes. Whether the individual does not partake because of religious reasons or simply because they have no interest, no one should ever try to pressure/manipulate anyone else to drink a beer or to try weed. Both of these things have been highly pressured on me. I had been pressured to drink beer when I was 16 years old by my own uncles. I I will confess that I have tried alcohol before I was even legally allowed to drink at the age of 14. By the time I was 16, I knew that I do not want to be a drinker. I just simply hated the taste. But unfortunately, it is common for people in the culture that I had grown up to drink alcohol even at a young age. I had also been pressured to try marijuana by my own roommates. They both have asked me multiple times to try marijuana. One of which - who does not live with me anymore - spoke to me for about an hour trying to convince me over and over to try it. But then a few days later I overheard him talking to one of his other friends that he was able to introduce marijuana to a certain group of people who are religiously abstinent from alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. I knew right then that neither of my two roommates do not care about me at all. They just want to introduce me to marijuana because it makes them feel good about themselves for introducing another person to marijuana. I neither condemn or condone anyone else for drinking or smoking just because I don't like it. It's just simply not for me. Period.