Friend's Thinking About Quitting

My best friend and smoke buddy told his parents that he smokes pot today. They said that he can't do it because if he gets caught it could get him in "legal trouble" which could effect his life and stop him from getting enrolled in an art school (where he wants to go to college).

I told him that he could smoke in safe places like my house (my parents don't care) and he would have almost no way of getting caught.

Can anyone else help me out here? .. I don't know what else to say..

 

There is not really anything else to say to him....it's up to him if he wants to continue smoking against his parents' wishes. I would, if my parents' had found out before I moved out of their house. I would just be smart about where/when I smoked, and "cleaned up" afterwards: wash hands, brush teeth/minty gum, Axe, Visine, etc.

 

dude i dont even know if thats true, about not being able tog et in school. maybe if your dealing, or you buy by the kilogram or something. i dont know though.


but yer right, if yer smart and careful about it, its pretty unlikely youll get caught..

 

actually a couple years ago a law was passed that said you cant get into college if you get in trouble with drugs as a minor. either that or you couldnt get a scholarship. either way, im fucked. its a bullshit law but hey whatever

 

Utter bullshit. Your juvenile record is sealed unless you commit a crime as an adult.

 

that law doesn't say you can't get into college, it says you can't get financial aid if you have a drug conviction. you can still go to college if you pay your own way without financial aid. but that leaves a lot of people that are able-minded, but not financially able to not go to school. but a convicted murderor or rapist or some other crime far worse than a simple drug conviction, can still recieve financial aid. that is what is bullshit.

 

"A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. "
Jim Morrison


Let him make his own decidion.

 

lol wait a second, your friend didnt know he could get in 'legal trouble' form smoking weed until his parents told him???? Where does he come from? alaska? lol

 

Come on it's art school... at any given art school, probably 1/3rd of the students are pot heads...

 

It's not clear if your friend wants to quit smoking or not. If he has decided to quit, its his decision. If he is worried about college, he could call a local admissions office and check the facts.

 

i think smoking might help him in art school


making him more creative

but as for right now id suggest it to him but if he doesnt want to then dont push it

 

Just tell your friend that the chances of him being busted for anything while he's smoking in private at your home are extremely improbable. Tell him that using that as his reason to quit is just foolish. He probably does have his own reasoning, and if he does, at least get him to the point where he recognizes his own reasons for quitting and know one else's. If he can't think of any other, personal or not, reasons to quit, then he should come to the conclussion on his own that he shoudln't quit.