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I have....Well close to it, and it really sucks. They just don't understand that it's my decision and if I'm not forcing it on them, and I'm not high around them, and since there's been studies done that prove that is not as harmful to your lungs as cigarette's or as addictive, they shouldn't care.
Oh well, share your experience's, and smoke a joint my brother's and sister's! :jointsmile::rasta::pimp::stoned:
I've lost friends over far more trivial things. A true friend will not totally abandon you if they disagree with something you do, and will usually try to show you that they're genuinely concerned for your wellbeing. With something like pot where you can explain your side of the story well and show it's a minimal 'risk' (in the gamut of things a friend might advise against doing), a good friend will never go beyond a stage where you both 'agree to disagree', if you will, about the issue. Both parties can make efforts to not irritate the situation... I have very good friends who are against tobacco, alcohol, and weed, and we're still friends, but I do my best not to even have a cigarette at all while I'm with them. I doubt they would still want to be my friend if I spent all my time trying to force them to accept or try any of those three drugs.
I haven't really lost friends but it has affected me as far as living situation in the past year. I was gonna have a guy i work with move in with me after my lease was up with another guy i worked with. So we had the new lease all signed and ready to go when it was time. So my current roomate and his girlfriend are all set to move into their own place when the lease is up. He's cool with pot and she's not and she went around complaining to the neighbors and the apartment manager that the house smelled like pot all the time and she didn't want anything to do with it. Thats cool but i never did anything in the house...only in my room....and its MY business. Well eventually word gets to the guy i was gonna room with and now he says he won't room with me cause he doesn't wanna be around pot. This fucking bitch has ruined me in the place i was staying and I had to find a new place to live...when i could have stayed put.
Not that i know of, or can remember. If someone has a problem with me smoking, i'll lamp em and watch them run away.
No, because they're not real friends. I've lost a girlfriend who meant the world to me because she doesn't like the herb or that i smoke it. So that was great :D Allow non stoner chicks... What i will say is that she did give me a chance and was with me for 6 months tho, so i won't forget that. I never talked with her about weed, only once or twice, she just didn't understand and wasn't interested, said: i don't need a substance to be happy. At least she gave me a chance, i told her that if she really liked me then she wouldn't try and change me but take me as who i am. She did but we're too different. So yes i've lost a person that meant a lot to me because i consume cannabis, that's life, it's my life, it's my choice.
i have not cos theyve disaproved of me smoking it but its them that became greedy, selfish, actors. and for that ive told em to fuck off, but still i wish i still knew some of em. its sad really people you think you know let you down so badly for such stupid reasons. but you cant let em back, its weak.,
Exactly. Kindness is mistaken for weakness. :rastasmoke:Quote:
Originally Posted by chisme
I wouldnt make freinds with somebody who would find somthing so trivial enough to destroy a freindship.
thankfully , i tend to end up in the more intellegent crowds, who tend not to smoke, but know the goverment BS is just that, BS
current GF isnt happy about me growing, but doesnt mind me occasionally smoking
NAIL ON THE FOOKIN HEAD SON!! lol yeah your right there:DQuote:
Originally Posted by LIP
contrary, I made plenty of new friends over pot.
I, personally,would blow a hit in their face and tell them to deal with it. It's a personal choice.
If you do this you're showing no respect at all to your friends. That's just rude. Deal with the fact they're not smoking and just respect eachother.Quote:
Originally Posted by thefirefly
And you think they are showing respect by talking down about the herb and the people who smoke it? What people do is their own business and shouldn't affect your relationships with others.
I had to say that none of my friends I have now know I smoke, not my family I always am stoned, but no one really has a clue.:angelsmiley:
My career, family all of my personal life no one really knows that I enjoy the herb. I have learned to enjoy the weed by myself and now I am use to smoking alone, which in a way rocks. :stoned: Does it make me a phony, maybe, but at my age, I have learned that people have their minds made up, and if they want to smoke than they will find a way like I do to smoke. I have a one hitter, I smoke joints in my car, and eat it. If you act normal, no one has a clue, my eyes don't even turn red anymore. My dream is to one day just leave it all behind and live the reminder of my days in Amsterdam. :jointsmile:
i have lost friends over way dumber things =/
Sounds pretty childish if he can't accept you just because you smoke pot. You sound like you haven't taken any wrong steps around this guy, and yet he's being a stubborn close minded fool about it and is prepared to push you to the side. Friend?Quote:
Originally Posted by budl0v3r
Not lost, really, a few have distanced themselves from me, but it's not a huge deal. My current friends actually came to me because they wanted to smoke, they did, one likes it and the other one, well, he got SUPER stoned the 3rd time he tried it, and now he's kind of leery. They know I smoke, and they're fine with it.
I've met quite a few friends through my love of the herb, though :D
thats soem f**cked up s**t dudeQuote:
Originally Posted by TheDefiler
smoke one for me :jointsmile:
Firstly it's a girl, all of my guy friends are ok with it, they don't like it, but they know they cant make me stop. It's my ex gf that isn't ok with it, she gets really depressed and mad at me because I smoke. (Shes left voicemail's on my phone screaming and crying, i don't know what about because I deleted them first thing :D ) She's still my friend and everything, shes laid off on trying to get me to quit though which is good. That's the closest to losing a friend I've had. Well that's not entirely true, but we weren't good friend's in the first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by WeedyBoyWonder
not that i know of but i did lose my best friend to drunk driving him and a buddy were drunk and smoking weed on the way to do a beer run so if that counts at least i know he died ripped out of his mind
I'm really sorry to hear that dude. It's a very sobering warning about driving under influences... if you happen to be too messed up you can lose everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by StOnEdMoNk
If something like that happened to one of my friends, I would consider that a valid reason for them to hate the drug and to hate me for doing it. But people who haven't had bad things like that happen to them, really don't have a right to get in your face about it. They're still within their right to state their opinions, but a misguided sense about what's morally right and wrong can make people overstep the boundaries of common courtesy and acceptance.
I've lost many because of this reason, but more friends usually pop up that do accept it as a result of their abandonment (for lack of a better word).
While I would still be friends with them if it weren't for their ignorant ways of weeding (no pun intended) out their friends, I feel if they can't handle things like me smoking on MY OWN time and NOT IN FRONT OF THEM, then they don't need to be my friend anyway.
If they can't deal with someone because they smoke weed, then they have a shitload of problems coming for them later on in life that they won't be able to handle (very well).
probably, but I never noticed
No, but Ive gained thousands. Maybe even tens of thousands. I love my wife Mary...
havent lost one and gained a lot also.
You win some, you lose some.
I've probably lost some potential friends cuz I can tell when people are gonna be full-on anti cannabis, and I subconsciously avoid them. The majority of my friends smoke buddha and that's the way I like it... It's a better way of life. :smokin:
Amen!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Reefer Rogue
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Not a real one.Quote:
Originally Posted by budl0v3r
Anyone who won't associate with you because of cannabis was not a true friend in the first place.
Friends understand each other, and would know if you were abusing something. A true friend would be concerned about you if they thought you were making a wrong choice, and would talk to you about it with concern for your welfare. Dumping you doesn't show concern, it shows disdain.
Your 'friend' was not a Friend.
I did lose a friend from my marijuana use. It was back in high school when I started toking.
We were very close friends, then all of a sudden he started calling me a pot head and threating to kick my ass and pushing me. Needless to say it didn't end well for him the next day in the locker room. Now that im older I realize that that dude is a dick head.
NO..........
Hahaha good job.Quote:
Originally Posted by GwarDirt
Now I'm not condoning violence :hippy: but he deserved whats coming to him if hes gonna harass you about a conscious choice you make. :rastasmoke:
I havent lost any yet, but its because i have my normal non smoking friends and i have my smoking buddies, its difficult juggling the two groups , but ive started bringing them together slowly
we will see how it all goes down
I've lost friends because of drugs in general, not just pot alone.
But then again I've made a lot more friends , so it's cool.
i have lost my best buddy of 17 years we have not talked in 4 years now it sucks bad:(
ouch :(Quote:
Originally Posted by DAY-DREAMER-MAN
a friendship that long i'd almost quit just for that!
(note: ALMOST)
Ive tried to prove that too a few of my lost friends before i lost them. And ive came to decide that if they cant except you for who you are. then then thats there problem, their not a true friend. But hey thats just me.Quote:
Originally Posted by budl0v3r
Absolutely.Quote:
Originally Posted by psteve
A real friend sticks with you no matter what (within reason) and you have just lost someone who sounds pretty disloyal.
Dont worry about it you will make other friends.
A few yes
I have no shame about my smoking
I let it be known
I have lost friends over its
and they mostly turned out to be hypocrites