This article is eerily reminiscent of the drug talks in my high school health class. I was always told that marijuana was a "gateway drug", and that once you had used it for a while, the high wasn't enough anymore and you inevitably moved on to coke or heroin. Now that I'm older and have met people who do all kinds of drugs, it's clear that this is not true. Similarly, this article seems to imply dire consequences from the use of Adderall. I have never personally used it, but I know many who have. It's clearly not anything you should be using all the time without a prescription, but it won't kill you the first time either. There are two things in particular I want to address about the article. First, it's interesting that the author suggests that because Adderall is Schedule II, it must be dangerous. Pot is Schedule I (the 'most dangerous' rating), right up there with heroin and the date rape drug. Given that I have smoked pot but do not have characteristics of a heroin addict, I'd say pot's classification is unjustified. So why should we trust Adderall's? Secondly, for such a "dangerous" drug, I'm surprised that there were no accounts from students, SHS, or administrators about deaths or even just hospitalizations. For a dangerous drug, it seems like Adderall has caused very little damage to our community.