Like a lot of people I used to be a huge pothead. Smoked every day for a number of years, etc. As I got older I started cutting back. Way back. I am now 25 and smoke maybe once every couple of months, if that. I still use a few substances recreationally (stimulants), but weed just really isn't my thing anymore.
A buddy if mine, my brother, my best friend in the world who I've known for 20+ years, is still your classic stoner. Stays high all the time. Smokes before work, after work, on the weekends, every chance he gets. Fucking loves weed. Always has a bag and gets noticeably irritable when he doesn't.
So, anyway, him and I are chillin at the bar just having a few beers. We start bullshitting, talking about drugs, this and that- the usual. We happen to be in a part of town that's widely associated with meth use. I make a light-hearted comment about all the people we know who have turned snitch, and about who you can and cannot trust. He makes a comment about how awesome weed is and about how much more trustworthy potheads (addicts) are than methheads (addicts). I, as I tend to do, play devil's advocate and point out that there are at least as many sleazy, back-stabbing informants in the pot community as there are in the meth community. He takes issue with this, to say the least. Calls me a scumbag tweaker, a drug addict, a "bullshitter". He even attempts to call my mother to "inform her about her drug-addicted son" (she didn't answer). I end up giving him my car keys so he can get his broken laptop from my car (he decided he wasn't comfortable with a "tweaker" fixing his computer). When he comes back inside he gives the bartender my keys, telling him I'm way too drunk to drive (3 beers). He then walks home (about 15 miles).
Now, he hasn't smoked weed in a few days and was admittedly a tad bit ornery. But what the fuck? He's pulled some shit like this in the past, but this is a new low. Apparently his drug of choice, which he needs in order to function, is no big deal and should be accepted by all. But my drug of choice, which I use occasionally, makes me scumbag.
This wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't for the fact that a number if my drug-using, stoner friends seem to think he is in the right. It's making me feel like I'm a little bit insane!
Don't you just love how alcohol makes people act like fucking idiots?





