I quit smoking pot a long time ago but when I did smoke pot, I sincerely felt kind of sad for people that didn’t. I found it enhanced almost anything I was doing and thought non-users might appreciate it if they gave it a try. I still miss it sometimes.
This is like sixth-grade level DARE Program propaganda. I mean, if that’s what you actually believe, I guess I’m not going to change your mind, but you clearly don’t understand how marijuana and other psychedelics work. Psychedelics provide an experience…they give you a new way of looking at reality (some might say “a new reality,” but I think that’s going too far.) These experiences can definitely merit serious discussion and sharing, and if someone really had a breakthrough, of course he’s going to want to share that with others. I don’t think anyone should keep pushing it on you if you’ve said no, though. That’s just annoying.
I feel the same way about anime, Ween, The Grateful Dead, Bela Fleck, anything having to do with the Buffyverse, and “The Big Bang Theory”. All of them have their evangelists.
Dude, just…no.
There’s a reason they call it “dope,” dope.
This thread is funny. I’ve never encountered anybody who tried to push weed on people. I’ve never known anybody who gets bummed out getting stoned while hanging around non-stoners. Sure weed is super awesome the first few times you try it, but after a few months it becomes just another part of life, no different than eating a bologna sandwich, clipping your fingernails, or making a phone call. It’s just something you do when the time is right to do it.
If you never encountered anyone who tried to push it, you wouldn’t have tried it, would you?
“You know, I think I’ll try smoking these dried leaves and see what happens.”
I first tried it because I knew my friends were smoking it. They never asked me if I wanted it, I asked them.
That’s a very ignorant statement. Interestingly, it could apply to anything one does not like, with an equal level of irrational justification:
I don’t eat chocolate cake. I’ve come to the conclusion that people act the way you described because they are losers for eating cake, they understand that they are losers, and it makes them fell better when they can drag someone down to their level.
Like Gladtobeblazed, I first smoked because my friends were doing it. The week prior, I sat in the living room playing a computer game when they went to the bedroom to smoke a bowl. They asked if I wanted to join, I said no, and they shrugged their shoulders and went to the room. This time, they asked if I wanted to join, and I shrugged my shoulders, and went with them.
I guess you could technically call that “pushing”, but it’s hardly the “boogey man on the street corner after-school special” kind of pushing we were warned about as kids. It sounds to me like the OP’s friend was pushing weed the same way that he might push the newest video game he bought - of course, since he was stoned, he wouldn’t shut up about it.
I do the same with Jews/Muslims & Bacon.
Did you try asking your friend what their agenda was? Clearly it was something more sinister than sharing a good time.
Did you miss the “one and a half hours” part? When was the last time you tried to share one of your favorite sources of good-time with a reluctant friend for one and a half hours?
Yeah. The puking part is not a metaphorical purging of doubt and fear, it is your stomach rejecting the toxic stuff you put in it. What she could not explain to me is why this is somehow different than drinking any other toxin that triggers vomiting. It has some side effects that people find pleasant, but so does eating paint chips.
Thanks. Her life is also kind of problematic. All of her spirituality, retreats, shamanic ceremonies, and whatnot have not really given her the ability to cope with her life and get her passions under control. At least for me, this is pretty much the point.
Neither do I, really. 
You are clearly not married.