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Marijuana and Friendship

GuiltySpark

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How has marijuana changed your relationships with others?

I've found that smoking can change friendships over time, for better and for worse. It can strengthen the bonds between people but the opposite is true as well.

What happens when a friend develops different drug habits, or develops bad weed manners? What happens when a close friend quits and wants nothing to do with marijuana anymore?

Marijuana affects more then just the individual, but the group as well. Everybody treats weed differently therefore conflict, subtle or not, is bound to arise. What are your experiences with your smoking circle?
 
overall i feel like some people just view me differently after knowing i smoke. the less enlightened/"cool" ones like to "act like I'm high" asking me if i'm hungry and shit. they suck but that's their fault.

for a while i felt like i was using my friends to get their connections for pot. then when they were out i got them weed. we just smoke weed a lot and i happened to think about our relationships during a period when they were getting me pot regularly.

none of my current friends don't smoke pot. i don't really know any heads that don't still chief.

no problems with smoking circles. basically the only problem i've ever noticed is when people always smoke but never contribute. that's nonsense.

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Hasn't really changed any of my relationships. Some of my friends smoke while others do not. If some people want to smoke they usually do it in a different room or outside. Everybody is mature about it; nobody tries to psych the high people out or ask if you have the munchies.
 
It's just weed. In our circle it's probably a 50/50 split on smoking or not so it's pretty easy to keep the whole thing in perspective. You realise you're being a douche about weed pretty quickly when you are. I suppose we keep a few people who maybe value weed a bit too highly on the outer. Not anyone who doesn't contribute, but perhaps contribute as little as possible. Generosity is a common theme among my friends though so I guess issues are few and far between.

Also if someone quits smoking weed, and then decides that because you still do you're no longer worth having as a friend, fuck them. Whether you smoke or not isn't who you are.
 
^yeah totally dude, =/

But all my friends these days toke, the odd few times i've had a break i've pretty much had no friends. Shit sucks but iI got myself here
 
^yeah totally dude, =/

But all my friends these days toke, the odd few times i've had a break i've pretty much had no friends. Shit sucks but iI got myself here

Hit the nail on the head with this one. The majority of my friends have turned into stoners and if I'm on a break or not smoking with them then I rarely see them.

I've also met a lot of cool people and the times I do smoke with them its very enjoyable but its something I'm trying to change.
 
Most of my friends either don't smoke or do it so rarely that it's not an issue and even if they were into smoking daily it still wouldn't be an issue.

The only time it was an issue was back when I was in HS and I had friends that smoked who would do very stupid things that you're just begging to get caught by the 5-0 like smoking up in public near a diner where lots of cops hang out, while driving and stopped at red lights with the windows open, and parking in front of some random persons house in a rich neighborhood in broad daylight for an hour or more and hotboxing the car and then wondering why the police got called or how the cops found you.
 
when i started smoking it didnt change my personality so i did not lose any friends.

but i did gain connects and smoking buddies
 
Most of my friends are daily pot smokers, as am I. I have a few friends who smoke less frequently, some who don't smoke at all. I don't feel like this habit really makes a difference in terms of my friendships- we can all hang out together, regardless of who is smoking and who isn't. It's nice for us that toke more frequently, because we spot either other when someone is low on cash, we can all through in for blunts... it definitely makes smoking more enjoyable (IMO) to have that social aspect.
 
tokin up with my friends just makes our time together that much richer. we talk about and do the same kinda crap, but its just more fun/interesting/creative/whatever do do it high sometimes. not all the time, just sometimes. marijuana seems to help me recapture the fun i used to have with friends when i was 12 or 13, when i didn't have a lifetime of preconceptions and disappointment to taint my outlook. its fun to smoke out with a friend i have had since grade school and reflect on old times, and rediscover why we became friends, and realize why the friendship lasted 15 years.
 
i could write books about this stuff (if i were a decent writer) but i wont. heres a short story.

a "friend" of mine has been smoking weed daily for 6 years. bong. always at home, never goes out. 3 years ago he had people over at his house almost everyday. of course they came to smoke weed. they brought their own, but he provided a chill setting for everyone to indulge. i myself spent most of my weekends there, but i was never a true regular cause i didnt smoke during the week.

this "friend" can be a dick. in three years he has gotten into arguments with everyone in the group and they have left him one by one. lately he is just by himself, smoking weed and wanking to porn all day. he doesnt have a job. his only company is his sister, some homeless guy from back in the day and up until recently myself.

because i moved out of town 3 years ago i havent seen him much. i liked to stop by to visit him occasionally, as an old friend. he was an awesome host, we just talked and laughed for hours, drank beer, smoked weed and had a really good time. the past months i was in town a little more often and visited him about twice a month. at first it was fine, i still felt like his guest. but after just a few visits he fell into his old habits. i was no longer a guest, but just "there". i no longer had the right to converse with him if he thought something else was more important. he spent half an hour fixing his wireless LAN he had NEVER used and never will while i sat there for half an hour doing nothing, occasionally begging him to do it another time. he would snap at me if i dropped some tabbaco on his floor or i kicked over one his 50 empty, old beer bottles by accident. and so on... it all ended in an argument over whether bacterial parasites are always harmful to their host, which i desperately tried to deescalate with no success. once he thinks hes right he will not back down and just keep pounding, losing track of everything else. he once kicked someone out for good because he was sure the person had bent his LAN cable. it wasnt even broken. needless to say, i left early that night.

years of cannabis use and having "friends" use him to take their drugs have left this guy with the inability to maintain a friendship. he has noone left. just his weed and his crazy pot- and tv addcited sister. whenever he gets used to a person he will start treating them like shit, because he used to have that right. people just ignored him and came over to his place the next day anways. see this guy more than once a month and he will treat you like a piece of shit.
 
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