Am I missing out by not smoking weed?

[Anonymous]

So yesterday my bestfriend left school during a pep rally to go smoke weed in an alley behind McDonalds with 5 other people. When I saw her later that day she told me all about it and how it effected her and she kept asking me if she smelled like weed so her mom wouldn't find out. I've had a few chances to smoke weed before but I've always said no. I don't know if there are any nevative effects of weed. Everytime someone offered I just say no cause I don't like the smell, but honestly I just haven't done it cause my mom always told me "DON'T DO Do RUGS" and I'm afraid. Now I just feel like I'm missing out like about 80% of the people in my school have smoked weed more than once. They even bring weed to school and smoke it in the fire escape. I'm starting to feel like I'm missing out. I feel like a loser. All the popular kids come to school late out of uniform, cut classes, leave school early, and hang out at each others houses and smoke weed. I go to school on time in uniform, go to every class, go home, and do nothing. I have no friends and everyone thinks I'm weird.

[BCRanger10]

I haven't smoked it either, but I can honestly say that I'm not missing out on anything. I've been around people when they're smoking it before and it's one of the most disgusting smells I've ever encountered in my life.

There is a lot of peer pressure at your age, but really, you don't have to give in to it. It's one thing if someone says "here, try a joint", you turn it down, and then they just say "all right, no worries". But if they're actively making fun of you and telling you that you're weird for not getting involved in it, then that says more about their lack of maturity than anything else.

I understand that it might be tough, especially now at this, one of the more formative stages of your life. You want friends and you want to be included, but you can't be totally bound by what other think of you.

I think what you should do is the next time someone tells you that you're weird for it, ask them what specifically is so wrong with you not smoking weed. Turn the tables on them. Put them on the defensive. If they say "I didn't say it's wrong", then tell them that's what you feel like they're saying. In a way, it IS what they're saying.

You would also do well to speak to the school counselor and maybe start paying attention to whoever else turns weed down when offered. Maybe you can make some more friends that way?

And this is not to say that being popular is bad, but as you get older, you'll see that it's not all that it's cracked up to be. Pun not intended.

[Thandz01]

No most people who smoke it secretly wish they would have never started and what their life would have been like without it including me.. say no, dare to ve different and succeed in life.. guarantee your friends who may do it will regret it and will be doing the same thing years from now.. nothing lol

[existing_not_living]

Smoking weed isn't bad for you. You're not missing out if you decide not to tho. All of my friends are potheads. Strangely enough, my boyfriend and my best friend both prefer alcohol over weed while I prefer the opposite... hmm..
Anyway, I say do what you want. I love the stuff! People will say weed will change you or that it will make you do poorly in school. That's bullshit. Weed doesn't change a person. That person was already that way before they started smoking. Just do you. Don't let what others say influence you.

[ekc8295]

As far as drugs go, weed is pretty harmless. No long term effects, no chemical addictions. That being said, if you don't want to try it don't feel like you have to in order to fit in. Not every activity is for every person. Some people have no interest in trying some things, some will try stuff once or twice and never do it again, some will try something and love doing it. Weed is another of the many things you may or may not want to experience in your life.

[Anonymous]

Drugs are just stupid. You're not missing anything.

[JohnDoe3000]

Weed isn't that bad if you don't make a habit out of it. Go ahead and try it, but don't do it every day or your mind becomes slow (a bit like when you haven't slept well for multiple days in a row), you'll recover once you stop smoking (at least if you haven't been doing it for 20 years), but it's best for your grades etc... to never take it that far in the first place.

[JohnDoe3000]

P. S. alcohol, tobacco and caffeine are drugs too (I bet your mother uses at least one of those, quite possibly some kind of sleeping pills or anti-depressants too): there's no scientific reason to classify weed as something worse than those drugs, it's not heroine.

[SamuraiWarrior]

Caffeine dosnt make you stupid and caffeine and alcohol are not drugs if you consider them drugs you should consider brocoli drug to

[JohnDoe3000]

@SamuraiWarrior

Seriously, go read ANY medical or psychological textbook. Caffeine, alcohol and tobacco are all drugsan addictive. It is only for cultural reasons they are legal while weed is not (for example , in the Islamic world alcohol is considered a dangerous, sinful drug and usually illegal).

[SamuraiWarrior]

im not saying they can't be addictive even sugar is a drug cause it can be addictive and games or even Sports can be addictive but they are not iliegal, what it needs to be iliegal is weed
Just Destroyes your brain cells which means lower IQ hard to remember less memory
some people say Oh my god but weed can cure cancer and more
No... if you think thats true i hope your parents get cancer and i want you to give them 1000 pounds of weed until they finaly die from weed , weed can be medical like a painkiller nothing els

[idkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk]

weed is NOT a drug, so your not going against anything your mom says anyways
People that smoke weed just hang out with people that smoke. They do that because people that smoke have a different mindset than people that dont they are just way chiller people. We dont smoke to be cool we smoke because we like the way it makes us feel it makes us feel balanced. I would say to try it, BUT if you do make sure u know and trust that person. Dont smoke anybody's stuff it could be laced.
Weed is great by the way and not a drug.

[IMuser]

Why have an addiction? There is no fundamental need to smoke weed. If you are missing out on something, then you are also gaining something: self control

[Flow_like_the_wind]

No your not missing out. Don't get into the habit of smoking weed because that's a quick way to find yourself hanging out with the wrong crowd, especially at your age.

[MakeShiftThug]

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Trust me fam, don't be about that life.

[New_day]

you are not missing out anything
dont do it.. your mom thinks about your health

[malwins]

no it’s disgusting. makes u dizzy and paranoid

[bcromartie]

Yes.