blondie0420

I'm trying to think... In a normal social setting, when a group of people get together and 'hang out' - when they're not smoking weed (or drinking, either) - what do they do?

More specifically, I'm thinking about that asshole group of college kids who are in all the "drug are bad" kind of groups on campus - the kind that actually hold meetings and discuss their hatred of anything intoxicating. You know, the ones who swear sober is more fun. What do they do?

When I was younger, before I ever smoked weed, my friends and I would get together and go to the mall, get dinner, see movies, etc - basically any kind of normal stuff for high school aged kids. We were having fun and keeping ourselves entertained without any weed and that was cool then. Now we've kind of grown out of that. Walking around the mall with a group of people 19-25 while a bunch of 12 year old mall rats are littering the place would not be any fun.

Now, it seems like 99% of the time when I get together with a group of people, we're smoking weed. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, actually it's pretty awesome. My point is that I just cannot imagine having so much fun if, rather than sitting around and talking while passing a bong and a couple bowls we just sat around and talked while totally sober.

What do you even tell your parents you've been doing when you go out? I really don't say much more than "I'm going out, I won't be back too late" and that's that. What kind of excuse would I give so as to make it sound like my friends and I did anything besides just sit around a kitchen table all night smoking weed? Playing videogames? Watching movies? I feel like that isn't even a logical excuse. Why would I leave and return to the house at all kinds of crazy hours if we were really just sitting around watching Mr. & Mrs. Smith? My parents, God help them if they ever asked me what I'm doing till sunrise, 'cause there's no way they'd believe I was watching movies till 6am.

When you're younger [than college age], it's cool to go to the mall or get ice cream; when you're older [after college], it's different because people work and they have their own homes, for the most part.

My point is: what do those annoyingly proud sober kids do when they're in my age range (say 18-24) if they're not getting drunk or high? Do groups of people get together for parties where no one is getting wasted?

I think I've been smoking weed socially for so long (again, I don't think that's a bad thing) that I can't picture myself doing the same things if weed wasn't mixed into the equation.


I don't know... something I thought about tonight while sitting around a kitchen table and smoking weed for a few hours with two of my friends. We weren't watching TV or playing cards, we were just talking and getting stoned when it occured to me that if we weren't getting stoned, what would we be doing?

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