Teenage Drinking in Colombia

Neonovo says on Jan 24, 2005, 16:05:

My primera rasca fue con vino (Cinzano) En el día de mi primera comunión...

Paz

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pablorojas says on Jan 24, 2005, 16:13:

let me restate my question Most Colombians have some kind of drink during a holiday, including myself. At new years parties at my Aunt's house, even young children have some champagne, wine, aguardiente, etc. However, my question was in reference to the practice of drinking secretly in a basement among teens. This i find problematic. Drinking with family is usually a healthier way to become accustomed to alcohol, but many of my US friends drink until they pass out when they first encounter alcohol. Is teen drinking still an open practice, shared with family and friends without tension, or has it become an exaggeratedly clandestine practice of drinking to unconciousness?

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jccg says on Jan 24, 2005, 16:25:

Things are changing from the legal point of view... Nowdays it is ilegal to give alcohol to a underage person (that was an order from the white house). However, many of us still thinking that education is better than represion, so the kids are introduced to alcohol in a controled way that permit them to have the control. I have to admit that this is not always the case... there are a lot of people that not have the directions of a responsable grown up person and became adict to the drink

This is just the true!!

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Lionheart says on Jan 24, 2005, 16:50:

same in Europe you get used to alcohol before you learn to drive a car

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pablorojas says on Jan 24, 2005, 16:56:

agreed Logically, that is the conclusion one can come to. In the end, when given the choice to use or not use a drug, a freedom of choice, humans can make pretty wise decisions. When restricted, drug abuse can be the ill-expressed result of rebellion, frustration, etc. This new law is contradictory to the conclusion above, though I think Colombia is far from having cops concentrate on crashing new years eve family parties, as they do in a lot of places in the US. This is also part of the reason drug (besides alcohol and nicotine) abuse is so high in the Us, but relatively low in Colombia considering the availability of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana in Colombia. I hope this law does not make Colombia like those restrictive countries though. I have read about an increase in kids escaping from their homes at night in Bogota just do drink. I was born and raised (partially) in Bogota, and I always knew it had less of a laid back atmosphere than most other cities in Colombia, but I would never expect this form of clandestine alcohol abuse.

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jaramillo says on Jan 24, 2005, 17:30:

jaramillo I got totally drunk at 12. The next day I learned about “guayabo�, and never since then have I been wasted. My God, I thought I was going to die. Don’t get me wrong, I love to drink, but somehow, I never take that one, that one that will get me TOTALLY wasted. By the time I got to college there was no mystery, and no incentive to get drunk. I saw plenty of drinking, but no binging. I plan to let my children drink early.

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kernow62 says on Jan 24, 2005, 20:02:

I was born with Guinness in me. When my mother was in the hospital they gave her 3 bottles of stout each day. Perhaps that's why I used to enjoy beer so much. I gave up drinking 15 years ago, hence the past tense.

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sydneygirl says on Jan 29, 2005, 08:38:

i read in the papers in Colombia that kids soak tampons in Alcohol and insert them vaginally or in the anal area. charming I know. Aparently it means that when they get breath tested they come up without a alcohol reading...Doesn´t sound much fun to me, I wondered why they bothered.

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utopiacowboy says on Jan 29, 2005, 09:09:

So. Shoving an alcohol-soaked tampon up your butt isn't your idea of a good time?

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lpdiver says on Jan 29, 2005, 09:14:

It could lend a whole new meaning to the phrase... Who lit the fuse on her tampon?...jejeje

T

"cook some rice!"

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YEP says on Jan 29, 2005, 11:02:

ROFLMAOBMB
Can also be they prepared for later activities who knows ;-)



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