What has become of my friends...Drug Rant.

It was listed in the newspaper today, though I knew beforehand, of one of my friends from high school (best friends, actually) being busted for selling drugs.

The world was friendly and such until around senior year and after. During senior year, and afterwards, I started hearing my friends tell and more drug related stories. It didn't bother me at first, until it seemed a bit prominent in their lives, and that's when I started to worry. Little by little, my respect for them began to dwindle. Those friends got more friends into drugs, and people who were smart and knew better started as well. By this point, by graduation, my respect for them was done. I stopped hanging out with them, knowing they probably wouldn't care in the least.

"You can't get addicted to weed." Is what I heard most of the time, and it just made me roll my eyes, in disgust and their ignorance. For people who thought they knew a lot about drugs, do not know the half of it. Even though, chemically you cannot get addicted to it, you can still get addicted to the feeling. And, weed isn't even the half of it. Smoking and doing other "legal" drugs that people just so happen to find out about. Hearing their stories about Salvia and other shit just made me more disgusted. Doing anything just to get that feeling.

Why do they do it? Are they bored? Do they think their life is seriously that bad they need to do that shit just to "escape" it? Cowards escape, is what I think about that. You have to be a real person to stick up to your problems, and to work through them. Instead of just sitting around your house, getting high.

There are detriments to your brain, and drugs do stupid things to you. My uncle, the coolest person on the planet, smoked pot for most of this life. In late adult hood, when he gave it up, I don't think he could easily cope with things. And, four years ago he committed suicide. Now, I am not saying that is what happened for sure, it's just what I think happened.

My friend, who just got busted, has quit college. And, as you read up above, started dealing pot (and who knows what else). And you know what? I don't feel sorry for her in the least bit. If she is reading this right now, I am not sorry I said that. She needs to get her head out of the ground, and away from the drugs. They don't suit her. Sure, rebellion is one thing, but giving up on a higher education (probably persuaded by the drugs), and selling drugs to college students. It's a vicious cycle, and one I think she needs to break.

As to all of my other friends out there: You don't know it all. You don't even begin to know about the world. Stop cowering behind your drugs. Drugs are not "cool", and they don't make you popular; They make you look like stupid retarded assholes.
I hate being around you, I hate having to worry if I come to visit that you'll be high. I hate having to worry if you come over you'll smoke up at my house. I hate knowing you have smoked legal stuff at my house, and knowing you were high at my birthday party last year. That is just so disgusting and wrong on so many levels, and made me lost my trust and respect for you even more.

If you really cared about you, and the people around you. No matter how much they thought it was acceptable, you shouldn't do it. Think of all the friends you will lose that aren't into that stuff, and how far you'll fall into the sewer with other druggies if you get caught up in with so much more. Think of the diseases that are spread through drugs. And think about the amazing people you will meet, that once they find out you do drugs, won't want anything to do with you, like me.

You may think you need it, but you don't. It's a crutch, and one day you'll need to learn to walk without it. And, if that day comes earlier than you were hoping, you'll fall flat on your face. When you're old and gray, or sitting in jail, or even as far as sitting in the hospital thinking, "I am such a fool. I threw away years of my life doing that. I dropped out of college, I threw away my real friends for friends who do drugs and pushed me to do it. And now look at me." And guess what, you can never get that time back. You wasted it, and probably knocked years off your life doing it.

If you think you're truly unique, like you want people to believe. Do yourself a favor, and get off of whatever you're on. Also, yes, you may think I am full of shit, but guess what, I am not. I am being a true friend, and telling you to stop acting, and looking like a coward, an asshole, and the typical "druggie". Get your head out of your fucking ass, and get your life in order. Do it now, while you still have the chance. Before you end up in a gutter, possibly dead, because everyone knows that smoking pot leads to harder drugs whether you want to believe it or not. You may be thinking you're doing right by doing drugs but slowly you're ruining your friendships, your relationships, and your life.