<p>And just to add, I was one of those early alcohol-drinking teens, followed closely by marijuana (doing both by the time I was 17). I don’t think any horror story of anyone I knew would have been enough to scare me. There were quite the number of ‘good Catholic students’ at my all-girl parochial high school who spent many days going out to lunch and getting drunk and/or stoned, me included. I have NO idea what the consequences would have been, but I would have been far more afraid of my parents than my school (of course, back then, these schools tended to deny and ignore this was going on their school, so why would they have a disciplinary action in writing?)</p>