thinking back, once I got into junior high all my regular friends became either jocks or nerds, I was a skater/musician/weirdo, the stoners welcomed me with open arms, it was the only place I fit in. So they reinforced my weed use but I honestly was in love with smoking weed for years, no one forced me to do it, a few friends encouraged me to try it, but I was smoking it by myself within months of trying it.