You were indirectly taught that your actions were acceptable by your freinds. Their acceptance of your actions encourage (or taught) you that those actions were “good”.
One of the reasons I did not go hog crazy with drugs was because I had a girlfriend who “frowned” upon that activity and I was taught through her unacceptance that drugs were not “good”, hence I stopped.
You were taught to use drugs by your friends acceptance and your parents inability to instill their values in you. Kids do not grow up wanted to be drug addicts or teenage mothers or deadbeats or homosexuals. But they are “taught” to do these things by thier peers and families and often the schools because many schools refuse to condemn or shun these behaivors.
Do not assume by taught I mean someone goes to little Johnny in school and teaches him how to roll a joint. But the failure of the schools and his family/peers to teach him how unacceptable an action is, is the same as teaching him to do that action.
Kids do what they are taught to do.
True,peer culture made those things acceptable-drugs,rebellion,violence,etc.
So are you saying had I been around GAY peers,they might have seduced me into their vortex?Just as they got me to accept weed and mescaline?Right now I tend to think”no way”but who knows?
We like to think the best of ourselves.Yet I will concede its possible.