When I was in a class taught by a DEA agent, she would stress to us over and over how we should NOT admit to doing any of the drugs talked about in class. She was a DEA agent and therefore, a mandatory reporter. She became a DEA agent, not out of a huge sense of morality or need to "keep the streets clean" but because she was a psychology researcher first and foremost and wanted to study the effects that drugs had on human behavior. To do that, to be able to access heroine or meth or cocaine to feed to rats and run experiments legally, she had to become a DEA agent.
She would stress, heavily, almost once a month, never to implicate an identifiable individual in a "neat story" because all this woman wanted to do was cool experiments on her darling lab rats, not organize a sting operation on her dumbass students and then fill out piles of paperwork that kept her from her research. That said, she would tell us that we could and should share stories of our "friends".
"My friend had sex rolling on molly and said it ruined sex for them. Is that true?" a student might ask.
And because they had been vague she could look that student in the eye and reply, "I don't want to tell you yes.... But I will tell you that your friend isn't a liar".
Don't be stupid. Don't implicate yourself in illegal things to people who MUST report you for their livelihood. If you must, share your thoughts or plans or illegal doings using "your friend" as a placeholder. Give the person you're talking to plausible deniability about your involvement if you can keep it to yourself for godsake. And if you can't, if you have to fucking share, don't then dunk on the person you put in the shitiest position of reporting you.
