Pot= changing people

Ohkay, I don't mean this to be offence to anyone out there that smokes, but It's just what I'm going through at the moment.

So I'm almost 16, and have a great bunch of friends which some of us play on a sport team which is going on at the moment. The thing that is bothering me is that I feel like everyone of my team no smokes pot. It started with only a few people, and I respected their decision, but now over half the team has tried or does it everyday. I know that half of those girls were ANTI before, and now they seem like hypacrits when they go out and smoke. I have seen so many of them changing before my eyes and its sad. I'm also scared for their own good, becuause I have heard of many reports lately of it being laced with LSD, and that could seriously hurt them. Another thought came across my mind was that many I wouldn't be invited to hang out with them as much, becuase of the fact that I don't smoke. They might not want a non- smoker to kill the mode.

I'm just very confused and needed to vent. If you have feed back, please don't be afriad to speak up.

Hey, I no longer smoke, do any kind of drugs, or drink, which is a very hard descision to make as a teenager. (go on, call me names if you like)
I know how hard it can be, but I think that you should stand up for what you beleive in, and although it's the hardest thing in the world to watch people around you causing themselves harm, it's their decision. You can try to convince them not to but ultimatley we can't force people to stop. If they don't want you around when they are smoking I think it shows perhaps (hard as this is to say) they aren't very understanding friends.
I think that the most important thing is for you not to give up on what you believe in to fit in.
Hope that some of that helped, or at least made sense.
Luv and best wishes
*VioletRaven*

ya I totaly understand, but I still almost feel the need to fit in.. and I know that I don't want to go down that path... meh confused

My brother-in-law when he was 16 and as bright as a button, was all full of himself because he smoked pot and felt 'wow man'. I told him of my concerns that it could lead to other more dangerous things and also dangerous people. He knew better and argued that people don't move up the drug ladder that easy (man).

Twenty years on he's since searved time for bringing acid tabs into this country. He's in and out of pychiatric wards due to drug induced psychosis. He can't physically or mentally hold a job down and his life is in shreds. But, of course, he knew better (man).

Beware my friends.

Ok pot really does get you interested in other drugs. I would really tell them to quit especially since your on a team. The weed is going to make them slower and there going to need something to boost themselfs up (coke etc) I mean if they can't afford coke what do you think they will end up doing that is almost the same thing? Meth. Get them away from it before they try new things,

Trust me.you have to get them to quit.I smoke but I've seen it's long term effects which are bad.One of my friends has been smoking for years.It is really screwing with him.I also know people (like myself and my sister) who smoke and can just quit when they feel like it.Not everyone can do that, and it will hurt them if they do it all the time.Just be careful

i'm 15, i stered smoking, drinking, doing every drug out there when i was 11. i no longer do any of them b/c my bf got me to stop but you shouldn't make them stop. just tell them that your concerned and that you care about them. if they care about you too, they'll stop.

Madison...I implore you to stick to your guns. You know what the consequences are if you do not. But I know that it will be hard. You may even lose those friends...
I had a friend once, she was a very sweet girl. Got teased a lot in grade school because she was overweight and produced and odour, but she was quite delightful once you got to know her.
We got into highschool and she knew all the baddies because of her brother. Didn't take long and she was drinking all the time and then she started doing pot. She thought she was this shit and no one could mess with her. She spread lies to boost her reputation. All this I suppose is normal for certain people. But then she started pressuring me to try it. I wouldn't even consider it....And at the very beginning she never asked me because she knew what I thought. I never looked down on her for it, she was still the same old friend I always knew. But she did start pressuring me, and I told her I wouldn't because I thought it was very bad and it could kill me, not to mention her. After that she hated me, she thought that I thought I was better than her. and since she convinced herself of that, she convinced herself that I was talking crap about her. She's been harasssing me ever since. o.O
It's a controversial thing when someone says "weed changes people". And for some people it may have no affect personality wise, but I beleive that for most it makes them paranoid, it makes them doubt people who are not like them. So Madison, the choice is up to you. You can smoke pot like your friends, and you may thoroughly enjoy yourself and realize you're the shit...But at what expense? Will you turn on your friends and even family?

I care little about the physical repricussions of drugs. We're all going to die someday...But who in their right mind wants to die with a joint in their hand surrounded by people who only respect you because of the burning twig you have in your hand? I don't want to die Lonely...But that could be just me.
~*Ley*~

wow Ley, that was really great, thank you alot, and also thank you too everyone else who added in a response!

Well I wouldnt completely agree with Ismail. You don't get dull. You just chill out! All that extra unnecessary stress is gone! It changed people in a good way if they don't exaggerate of course