how to deal with ignorant people...

ive seen this for acid and shrooms, but not weed. yesterday i was chilling with some of my friends of which these dont smoke except one. and i geuss they had planned to try and get me to stop smoking and they were telling me all this bull shit. about how it makes you schitzo and even the guy who smokes was trying to tell me it puts holes in your brain and how smoking resin causes your lungs to pop. no matter how much i tried to explain, they wouldnt listen to logical sense. you couldnt live with a bunchj of holes in your brain. how should you supposed to deal with people like that?

 

ignore them. or just tell them you stopped(but dont). and everybody would be happy

 

I've come to the conclusion that there is no effective way to deal with the ignorant. Some of them may become less ignorant as time goes on but some people just have really closed minds and there's nothing anyone else can do about that.

 

yea, i geuss. but then they were trying to tell me that if i kept smoking, id grow tits and my voice would get higher and my balls would shrink. and that chicks grow muscular and facial hair. i almost fell over laughing at this.

 

ok if they really said that they were just tryin to fuck with you, no one can be that stupid

 

youd be surprised. they were completely serious.

 

as someone said above...u cant really do much u know..ignorance is a blisssssssss!!

 

lying wont get you anywhere very fast - dont say you quit unless you have. making it seem like you smoke LESS than you do isn't AS bad, and sometimes is a necessity.

i find keeping seperate aspects of my life seperate is often beneficial. i rarely talk about doing drugs at work, and almost always in the past tense. i admit to smoking pot occasionally, but never say "i smoked the best pot last night!"

while they are misguided in their approach and obviously very misinformed about the pharmacological effects of cannabinoids and marijuana smoking, their hearts seem to be in the right place - they want you to be healthy and socially functional.

while marijuana wont put holes in your brain, it doesnt mean it doesnt carry its own set of drawbacks. i smoked a LOT up until the past year, and i still smoke pretty often. i smoked WAY too much for a long time though. and tripped too much. and it WAS a social thing, but it was always the same basic routine....get high, smoke cigarettes, sit around, laugh, feel good, smoke more pot, maybe have some beers......i didnt form many lasting bonds with smoking buddies, and i smoked alone very often. pot was a HUGE part of my life - and as a result i feel very underdeveloped on a social level, and know many of the people i used to hang out with feel very similar.

perhaps you should take a month off from smoking, and see how things are different, and then take some more time -alone- to really think for yourself about how much you value these friends who talked to you, how much you value marijuana, and to REALLY look in depth at how marijuana is affecting you in every aspect of your life. if you smoke every day, more than once most days, then it probably has an effect on most aspects of life, directly or indirectly.

there are a few ways to deal with these people.

1. quit for them
2. lie to them about quitting
3. establish a bottom line - if they wont accept you as a smoker, then you wont associate with them
4. establish an agreement to not smoke around them or be stoned around them, and to have them not bring the topic up. if you can keep this aspect of life seperate from THESE friends, it might be for the best.

of course, like i said, it all depends on what you value - your friendship with these people, or pot. you can try to educate them, but i wouldnt be too hopeful. they are most likely set in their beliefs considering how far out there the ideas they have are.

there are some people i'd basically tell to fuck off if they dont like that i smoke.
there are some i'd just not talk about it with.
then there are some i'd actually try to smoke less for.

perhaps if i found the right person, i would actually give it up for them (but its not too very likely).

i think you probably know how you'll handle it already.


just take time to think about things for a while. preferably while sober.