My friends are getting into drugs/ becoming stoners. I don't know what to do? Help!

The other problem is that stoners tend to become losers as well especially in terms of uni. I've never known a serious stoner that had any real drive or ambition in their life although you hear about people that are good artists/musicians etc doing it to help their creativity. At uni all the stoners I knew rarely turned up to uni and were always scrapping around in a panic come exam/end of year to get a 3rd or try and scrape a 2:2, none of them were organising any good work experience or doing good extra curriculars. It just becomes a lifestyle choice where weed is your life and it spills over to those around them.

To be honest if they have got really in to weed you are not going to change that. You are probably better off distancing yourself from them and then finding a new friendship group in the holidays.

When someone, especially a group of people, fall under the spell of weed the problem is weed becomes the number one thing in their life. All their socialising has to revolve around getting lean and if you aren't a fellow stoner it creates a barrier because they become boring.

The other problem is that stoners tend to become losers as well especially in terms of uni. I've never known a serious stoner that had any real drive or ambition in their life although you hear about people that are good artists/musicians etc doing it to help their creativity. At uni all the stoners I knew rarely turned up to uni and were always scrapping around in a panic come exam/end of year to get a 3rd or try and scrape a 2:2, none of them were organising any good work experience or doing good extra curriculars. It just becomes a lifestyle choice where weed is your life and it spills over to those around them.

With some people its just a phase and they go in to it and then come out of it and you can re-establish a friendship afterwards and they will be all "I was a right waster when I was on the weed lol" but while they are in to weed you have to leave them too it. Trying to make a big effort to connect will just end up in frustration because there is already a barrier.

The big problem with most soft drugs, regardless of whether they are harmful or not, is that they make people selfish. Drugs come first friends, family, other people second.

Hi and thanks for reading..

I have known my friends since year 7 and I am now in year 13. You can just imagine how much we have been through. I have a pretty big friendship group people being picked up along the way and some falling out all the same old same old stuff. But we have always been pretty wild. Throwing parties at age 14 and drinking then getting into bars at 15/16 if we could.

But recently now that summer has started and I have been out with them to some parties and clubs and going back to their house afterwards one of them had some weed hidden in their shoe can you believe it.. Everyone was really into it. Now they are doing drugs every time we go out. Maybe they are just bored because we have been drinking from such a young age they want to try new things :|. I am even more annoyed because my best friend in the group was the one who was supplying the weed in the first place.

I do not have to justify why I do not want to do drugs. But I have a slightly obsessive personality with a long family history of drug taking gone wrong, so I could easily become addicted.

I am worried for my friends and I love my friends I do not want to lose them because of this but now I am becoming excluded!

Please give me advice, it is easy to say ditch them but then I would have no one. There is no way I would give up my friends because they mean so much to me.