When 13year olds come up to you saying 'Can i sleep with you tonight?' you have to wonder weather youre little brothers partys arent just a touch too... mature. But then you sit in the bathroom smoking a joint with another kid, 14 i think, and you realise that maturity isnt the issue - or at least lack of maturity. Rather, the fact that these children are are the ones influencing you - the seventeen yeard old who hasnt smoked hash in two years - to revert to your old ways is what you should be worried about.

These little stoners are smokin, rolling joints, and fucking about like the archetypal student, apart from the fact that they are still in 2nd year.

I love these kids. Theyre smart, theyre nice, theyre generous and basically all the things good people should be, but they are also fond of throwing rocks at passing cars and stealing things. The other day i was hanging around with one of them outside school. He had just come out of a shop, and he reached into his pocket and tugged out 5 chocolate bars and a coke, and offered some to me. I say no thanks, but he smiles and says 'five finger discount' so i take one. There are loads of kids lke that in the school, who eat only what they can steal, and spend everything else on cigarettes.

But, after being one, and now spending much of my time hanging around with the next generation of them, i still cant decide what i feel about underage smokers, especially hash smokers.

So. That's that.