Has this happened to ne one else?? RE: losing friends over pot

[czm]

Yeah, there are a few people I know whom I considered friends until they found out that I smoke, and now they don't talk to me anymore. They want to look down on me for doing this, fine. Fuck them.

Find people that do what you do, or if they don't, accept what you do. That is if you don't want to hide what you do.

If you hide what you do, those people will probably find out sooner or later.

Fuck the people that you thought were your friends. Fuck the people that think they're better than you because of what you do.

czm Reviewed by czm on 10-29-2007. Has this happened to ne one else?? RE: losing friends over pot So get this, i started smoking pot back in april of 07, bout 6 months ago. Ne wayys it was all fun cuz i got my closest friends to smoke with me and we did a lot like every night during the beginning of the summer. WE HAD MAD SESSIONS like at first we had no tolerance and would smoke like 2 joints of some dirt weed and get BLOWN! :rastasmoke: , well me and 4 of my closest friends would smoke all night every night cuz none of us had shit to do and we all had part time jobs etc. Well my point Rating: 5

[Vino]

when i was in highschool i switched from a not so nice group of friends who partied and were kind of jerks, to a really nice group of friends. but i smoked pot, and drank, and partied on the weekends with other people because my friends didnt go out and party on weekends, or even get together really. they were super nice people, good people. the kind of people you could trust with about anything. kept me out of trouble most of the time, but they didnt smoke pot or drink until they went to university, some still dont. so for a good portion of highschool i smoked alone because my friends wouldnt have tolerated it. i still dont talk to them about it.

i have friends who smoke now and roommates who do.....but i accept there will be a time in a few years when im done school and have a career and i know i will be smoking it by myself. and im cool with that, i dont mind being high by myself, i kind of enjoy it actually. socially its a blast dont get me wrong. but i like to get stoned and go on msn, watch a movie, play video games, work on my art, play piano, do school work....its not so bad you know.

[yokinazu]

a true freind dont turn his back on you.
all my real freinds are smokers for life execpt 1. and this cat execpts me no matter what i do. the dude even lets me blaze when im at his pad. i have enough respect for him to go outside but still he dont mind. my other freinds have been stoners together since we were in like the 7th grade. we hung together all the time. hell i even had a couple bosses that didnt mind my habits and one used to let me smoke in the shop that i worked.

[BlazinKush]

I dont think they were your friends to begin with anyway.
Thats not right for them to say negative things about you out of no where.
Maybe they didnt like how the weed was making them feel, idk...

[Zwitter]

The majority of my close friends would never even consider smoking weed. They distanced themselves from me for a good portion of a year, then before graduation they just kind of accepted it. They don't want me to talk about it or go on a "weed spiel". The only people I really smoke with are my boyfriend and acquaintances who I met because I smoke weed. What I wouldn't give to pass a bong around with my best friends...I'd love to feel that. But it isn't ever gonna happen.

[Distortion]

give them a buck fifty. they wont be able to talk for awhile

[rastaman79]

Dont worry about it,its all part of growing up.Its your life and your choices.friends come and go,weed will always be there as long as you want it to be.

[Nightrafe]

I made lots of new friends thanks to the weed. And became closer to old friends

[TryptamineScape]

man...my best friend doesn't smoke, he can't stand it (he has better reasons than just because...childhood association thing) so I just don't do it around him, he knows I do it, but we're still best friends and have been since middle school...Now we're both out of high school, fucking with college and jobs and whatnot, we couldn't be closer. in my opinion if friends have a problem with something you choose to do recreationally, then fuck em, they ain't no real friends...there's tons of shit my friends do I don't agree with and vice versa but it don't stop us from being close friends.

[burnable]

as a rule, friends are always temporary. maybe if you're lucky you'll have a friend or two that will always be in your life, but it's better to learn as early as possible: you are your only friend.

There might come a time when you can't feasibly carry on a friendship with someone, for reasons such as idealogical differences, maturity differences, etc. I think the most common reason friends stop being friends is because one of them is taking more than the other. There needs to be a continual equilibrium of giving and taking. A big part of friendship is the favors you can provide one another. The right mentality to have is: I will do all I can for you if I am in the position to do the favor, but bad things happen when you start to keep track of favors rendered.

Favors friends provide each other need to be relatively easy. It just so happens that one friend is in a position to provide something that the other cannot. This principle prevails much more as you get older, as you move away from friends and expand your interests into broader areas.

Enjoy the memories of old friends, enjoy making new friends, but don't feel bad when you part ways; nothing is more natural.

These points don't really relate to the original ideas, but this is what I know to be true.