As a teen I was in a strong mental state of rebellion against authority. This was due to the underlying fact that we are not really free. So I wanted to act like an adult and drink, smoke cannabis and do drugs. I truely feel like if I was able to make these decisions to drink, smoke and do drugs on my own, without the law telling me I can’t do them. I would have maybe still tried them, but I believe that I wouldn’t have abused them to the point of causing myself bodily and mental harm. Even when I was doing this I feared cops more than anyone, even more than my parents. But I was not worried about getting beaten by the cops, now it looks like there is a whole new level of fear being put on the children of today. I feel like this will lead to a whole new level of rebellion from the kids today, and that could possibly be in the forms of extremely violent out-lashes. Like we’re seeing from the youth of today.