So basically every weekend for the past five or so weeks I’ve gone to a friends house, slept over and smoked weed out of a bong. I have a strict rule to never smoke or do anything on a week day, usually only Fridays and Saturdays, I’ve also experimented with acid and Molly, but only once with each. I mainly want to know if I should quit completely or cut it down to once every two weeks or something, because I enjoy it and it’s fun with friends but I don’t want to fuck up my life, y’know?
I’m 16 and I’d like some advice around smoking weed
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I’m 55, and every single person I have EVER known is F’d up thats smoked weed!!
Do I need to repeat this??
Just saying!
You know this already- so just don’t pick it up again!
Your brain is not fully formed yet, so any amount of drug you take right now will have a negative impact on your mental faculties in the long term. It will also impact your health and risk stunting your growth.
IMO, no, it’s not worth it.
Please quit completely, your health is more important than highs. Your brain is still developing, and although weed is not the worse, it can still mess with your brain. And with molly and acid??? Never again. That stuff can mess you up so badly.
cut completely. do yourself a favor and go online and see just how close to the edge your walking. then tell your friends your findings. drugs are illegal for a reason. even if it doesn’t kill you the first time, you never know when the next batch is tainted.
dont let your parents be the next news segment talking about the dangers of drugs and how their child died from drug overdose or whatever.
I have done a ton of drugs. I mean a ton. I own a very successful business. I’m a father and my kids are happy, well looked after and behaved. I don’t ever need to get high but I do when I have free time if I feel like it. Manage your life accordingly, if you want to party and have fun, go for it. Make sure you have your priorities straight. It’s no worse than drinking. Hell, I’d say drinking is worse than smoking pot. Also stay in school. lol.
They are not your friends you will learn
You’re young, and your brain isn’t done growing yet, so even though I normally would say go for it, I think it would be better to wait till you’re older. Once you’ve got things a bit more figured out in life, party on. But right now, I’d say stop.
You’re only young once, get lit
i’ve been smoking since i was 14. is it smart to do? not really, but dude. it’s just pot. every two weeks won’t kill you, just have fun with your friends. ***don’t mess yourself up on psyches though, ESPECIALLY at this age. that’s the shit that’ll really melt your brain.
If you want a government job, never. You can’t even try it? Going for anything computer related? Can’t. Military? Can’t. You could possibly ruin your future before it comes by just trying it.
You are fucking up your life.
I started smoking at the same time as you and am 29 now. I’ll be honest I do love the way weed makes me feel, but it was a mistake to think it was harmless.
I stopped smoking about a year ago and I can’t tell you how much better I feel in all regards. Something they don’t really tell you when people talk about the bad effects of weed is sure it’s not addictive, not really bad physically for you, etc, but it does have a bad effect of your psyche if you aren’t careful and if you are using other medication.
I started using in college daily in college and as a result I lost a girlfriend, friends, and began to fail my classes. It’s not because of the weed that this happened, but it’s more because the weed let me feel fine that it all happened. I should’ve fought back or tried to pull myself out of the hole I was digging but I didn’t because the weed was keeping me complacent.
My life ended up fine, I have a good resume and swung a good job, but I can’t help shaking the feeling that things could have turned out a lot differently if I decided to take things more seriously. Now I’m 29 and feel like I wasted a really important part of my life that, had I taken more seriously, could have led to a more fruitful and exciting existence.
This is just my personal struggle with it, but weekends will turn into weekdays and weekdays will turn into all day. Go out there and live, you won’t if you’re couch locked and it’ll be the same thing every night.
Hey! I’m also 16, and I’ve been smoking weed for around two years. The only way I can tell you to manage it is to continue what you’re doing with not doing it on weekdays, but what I do is use it for pain and depression. Remember, drugs are typically created in a lab or something else messed up. Weed grows naturally and has always been a medicinal herb. I would say limit yourself as much as you can, and don’t let anyone try to pressure you into smoking more than you know you can handle. However I will say, it has been known to be a gateway into taking far more illegal and much more life threatening substances, so I beg you please don’t let anyone talk you into taking harder substances. If you think weed is addictive, take a look at people on meth and cocaine. Personally, the benefits of THC or weed far out way the cons. Go online and search for “lung detoxing” I want you to try what I do and do a lung detox every few months. What it does is makes you cough up anything in your lungs. And once you’re done wait about a week before smoking again. The only person who can prevent addiction is yourself, so be careful and don’t fall to peer pressure. If you start feeling like it’s not enough or you think the initial effects wear off quicker than they used to, immediately quit and go cold turkey for about a month. Believe me, I know how it’s gonna feel, and you might start tweakin out like crazy the first two weeks, but I promise you that’s the best way to not let yourself get addicted or turn to harder drugs. Let me know if you need any more information or if you want to dm me with an update.
As someone who smoked weed as a teen and still smokes now, I really wish I just waited until I was older
Hey buddy. I am 23 years old now and pretty much I started smoking weed only at my buddies house on the weekends. However what I didn’t realize is that the act of doing it and having to hide it from mom and dad builds up in you and eventually they catch on. Anyways weekends turned into every other day and then daily. I slowly got sucked into that feeling. I started lying to my parents, scheming of ways to get money for weed, and I always ALWAYS told myself, “I don’t have a problem and I’ll never ever be like “those” people,”. Eventually after years of marijuana use and meeting people who smoked much more and have been EXPOSED to much more parts of life than I, I started to think that drinking and other crap wasn’t so bad. So then I tried some beers, and same cycle happened. That went on for some years drinking and smoking weed, then the cigerettes came with my construction job, and then by some way or another buddy I was exposed to meth. Now I’m not hear to scare you or tell you that weed is gonna make you do the things I did. But I am here to tell you simply reconsider where you truly want your life to go, and if smoking on the weekends truly benefits you, your state of mind and how you feel about yourself, and ultimately how you treat you family. I always told myself I’d never go past weed. Then when you get COMFORTABLE and you see other people drinking and not blacking out like you hear about. Drinking and having a good time and you can SEE them having a good time well you’re gonna want that too. That’s what happened with ME. Then eventually you get comfortable with that and you start to meet people then boom. You get dragged into or peer pressured into something and then before you realize it that drug has you by the neck and won’t let go. I lost my girlfriend, my job, my family for the longest time, every friend I ever had. I then eventually got tired of the pain man. Got tired of not knowing who I am and not knowing who I wanna be. It hits different. After 7years of active addiction in the substances I named (2 years) for the last two I realized that hey there’s wayyyy more to life than just feeling. I hate to drop all this on yall I know this wasn’t exactly the question but I’m sharing this with you in hopes that it makes you reflect on the things you need to! Marijuana is not totally bad. We have over a thousand cannabanoid receptors in our brains for a reason. It can however effect people differently and in my case it was the gate way to bigger and badder things. I hope this finds you well buddy god bless!
Can confirm that if that’s all you do with your friends to have fun, and it’s a routine, then they aren’t friends. I’d honestly try and find a new friend group that will be healthier to be around as you enter your late teens now and join the workforce.
Getting high at the weekends is reserved for chefs 😂👍🏻
Too young to be doing the hard stuff. You will pay for it later if you continue to abuse at a young age. I promise you.
These experiences are WAY better when you’re older and have other simple freedoms. The world opens up to you and you’ll have more of an expanse where you can properly experiment and experience these things.
I don’t condone using drugs, but if you’re going to do them, dont overdue it and do them in a responsible manner. Test your shit.
Wait til you’re 25 and you can smoke all you want and you won’t fuck up your life. Every single person I know now at 32 that was a heavy smoker at your age is either weed sober or completely fucked up their life lol
Just try to stay away from acid. Molly isn’t great either. I’ve had some bad Molly before and it couldve been worse. The fentanyl thing is more common now than when i was partying. Just remember theres always a risk factor. If you catch yourself developing a habit catch and control it asap
Please quit and wait until you’re older. I started smoking weed early in high school and drinking in order to “fit in” and it was not worth it. I don’t even know where those friends are now that I thought were so important to have. Do yourself a favor for the long run and don’t smoke weed. Wait until you’re older. Find hobbies and creative outlets that you love and I promise it’s better than getting high. If they’re really your friends, they’ll understand.