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Expert: Dan Date: 7/1/2008 Subject: losing friends to drugs
Question I'm 14. I mostly hang out with people a little older than me, like 15, and I'm usually really really close to my friends. Well a few years ago i found out most of my closest friends have been smoking weed. I wasn't really happy about it, but it was cool and everything. earlier this year, i started smoking with them, and everything seemed great-after all, it was just weed and it felt fantastic. But recently i quit smoking because i realized what it was doing to me (i could feel myself getting stupider, i was hanging out with people i really really didn't like, etc), plus my other friends were moving on to harder stuff, mostly E. Since then, I haven't hung out with my friends much at all but when I see them i can tell what the drugs are doing to them-they're always either stoned or rollin and the people i knew before are gone. I want to talk to them about it, but i feel like i cant because it would be really hypocritical of me. I'm not even sure i made the right choice by quitting-while a few things have gotten better, i feel like I've lost all my friends and i don't have anyone to hang out with anymore. How can I reassure myself that I made the right choice-and how can I convince my friends to stop if I cant even show them it will help anything?
Answer Hi,
I am glad you quit smoking weed. Weed is a serious drug that causes a load of problems. My former friend is in jail as he used weed(in jail for stealing money to buy weed) and well lets just say he would have been killed by a gang near him if he still did it. I recommend speaking to your parents about drugs as well as a trusted teacher. I recommend having an adult speak to those people and having them stop asap.
