noregrets2011
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My best friend who I've known for years, we'll call him X, and I have both smoked quite a bit of weed in the past, however the occasions were often separated for a few weeks. The heaviest I think we went was when we were about 16 when we went about 2 months smoking every day and then put it down for a good few months after that. It was a summer holiday, we stopped for school.
However, X and I have now gone to separate unis. And even though we're only an hour on the train away from each other, we only see each other a couple of times a semester, gotta love a student budget.
Anyway we're now half way through our second year and X has been smoking every day at uni since he's been there. I didn't want to have to post this is the dark side, because he's not suicidal to the best of my understanding, yet there's an obvious change in character. Lately whenever we've seen each other he's been like "I can't be bothered going out" and would much rather sit at home and blaze, his tone of voice has become more mopey and mumbly, and all he ever wants to do is pick up.
If you knew the kid, you'd understand that we used to love going up town together, ever since we turned 18, getting drunk at house parties, dabbling in the odd bit of charlie or smoke from time to time, but we had the best years of our life together, now he's reluctant to do any of this.
He gets very very irritable when he's back home, because his parents and gf don't know about it, he rarely gets an opportunity to smoke. Also, he keeps insisting on us finding a country lane to pick up and then going back to his and playing xbox all night. I don't feel comfortable with him driving high and all he ever tells me is "everything will be fine". And a common saying is "All the police are going to do is give us a fine, if that".
I know it doesn't seem like much, but me and a couple of friends have tried telling him he needs to cut down. We had a big fall out over this and he hasn't spoken to me in a while. He calls me a hypocrite because I take drugs myself, yet like I said earlier, I may take a few pills in 1 weekend, but when I'm coming down I tell myself that I'm not going to do that for a while. However, he is an habitual smoker, and has often said to me when he's woken up "I can't wait to get high later" and such.
I don't want to take the piss or offend anyone who may be trying to quit or have strong addictions to whatever substance, but I personally can't let myself get into a state where I need drugs every day to make me feel normal/better, and with weed, I just hate feeling dopey after a few days of smoking it. That's why it's very hard for me to understand.
I need help as X needs to realise for himself that doing this is not good for him. He believes there's no harm in what he's doing, but all of our friendship circle has realised a change in him. He even left my birthday night out to go home and smoke on his own.
Any advice would be much appreciated, and sorry for the ball ache people have gone through having to read this. I need people who have had similar situations to help me out, and any feedback is progress. Thank you
However, X and I have now gone to separate unis. And even though we're only an hour on the train away from each other, we only see each other a couple of times a semester, gotta love a student budget.
Anyway we're now half way through our second year and X has been smoking every day at uni since he's been there. I didn't want to have to post this is the dark side, because he's not suicidal to the best of my understanding, yet there's an obvious change in character. Lately whenever we've seen each other he's been like "I can't be bothered going out" and would much rather sit at home and blaze, his tone of voice has become more mopey and mumbly, and all he ever wants to do is pick up.
If you knew the kid, you'd understand that we used to love going up town together, ever since we turned 18, getting drunk at house parties, dabbling in the odd bit of charlie or smoke from time to time, but we had the best years of our life together, now he's reluctant to do any of this.
He gets very very irritable when he's back home, because his parents and gf don't know about it, he rarely gets an opportunity to smoke. Also, he keeps insisting on us finding a country lane to pick up and then going back to his and playing xbox all night. I don't feel comfortable with him driving high and all he ever tells me is "everything will be fine". And a common saying is "All the police are going to do is give us a fine, if that".
I know it doesn't seem like much, but me and a couple of friends have tried telling him he needs to cut down. We had a big fall out over this and he hasn't spoken to me in a while. He calls me a hypocrite because I take drugs myself, yet like I said earlier, I may take a few pills in 1 weekend, but when I'm coming down I tell myself that I'm not going to do that for a while. However, he is an habitual smoker, and has often said to me when he's woken up "I can't wait to get high later" and such.
I don't want to take the piss or offend anyone who may be trying to quit or have strong addictions to whatever substance, but I personally can't let myself get into a state where I need drugs every day to make me feel normal/better, and with weed, I just hate feeling dopey after a few days of smoking it. That's why it's very hard for me to understand.
I need help as X needs to realise for himself that doing this is not good for him. He believes there's no harm in what he's doing, but all of our friendship circle has realised a change in him. He even left my birthday night out to go home and smoke on his own.
Any advice would be much appreciated, and sorry for the ball ache people have gone through having to read this. I need people who have had similar situations to help me out, and any feedback is progress. Thank you
