I mean seriously!  I just finished a bit of a marathon session of Call of Duty going from lobby to lobby and one thing became painfully obvious.  People love getting high, puttinog on their headset and talking to other people.....about how high they are.

Now I used to smoke.  I went from being a pro back in the late 90's to being an occasional smoker in 2007-2009 to not smoking at all.  Aside from the occasional moment where I'd leave my bank card on top of the ATM machine or I'd pay for some gas and drive off without pumping it, I thought weed was cool.  I engaged in some great conversations, felt pretty awesome, had a lot of fun, and I was generally a happier person.  I dated a couple of professional weed smokers, too.  The topics at hand were always how fucked up the world was, how we were going to change the world, and (of course) how high we were.

I can't stand being around a weed smoker for 45 seconds, now.  Why?

• I don't care how high you are.
• I don't care how high you were.
• I don't care how you got in trouble for being high in a situation where you obvioulsy shouldn't have been high.
• I don't care about how Jason has the best weed.

Take that out of the equation and there really isn't much else to talk about anymore.  I'm sure I was just as annoying when I got high but WTF?  I like Nintendo.  I don't bring it up randomly to everybody I meet.  "Hey man, I got 120 stars in Super Mario 64."  What is it about weed that makes you talk about weed!?

haha yeah i also wonder everytime someone is telling me that. "i bought some weed today" or "i will smoke some weed in few minutes" or such things. who the fuck cares? it's like i woud say to every second person on the phone or wherever "i bought a sixpack coke today" or "i will drink a coke in 15 minutes"

people also often do that when they drink whisky. they always have to say to you that they have a glas of whisky right now. why? no clue.

I don't see how it's any different from someone saying, "Want to go to the pub?", or "man, I could use a beer... or 3."

It doesn't matter what the vice is, people love whichever ones treat them best. And people love to talk about what they love [to do]. I suppose since you're no longer using marijuana, talking about it can't be at all appealing. If someone's passionate about a type of food, beverage, or anything else, talking about it with people that share the interest helps to make a connection that would otherwise not exist. So if you're not into what someone else is talking about (whether it's weed or ice cream), then there's no appeal and no connection to the topic.

It really doesn't matter, for me, what people talk about passionately. I tend to hang around people my age or older (more than 30), so the discussions tend to be more mature and wise than what you would experience playing CoD online. My advice is to surround yourself with more mature people if you don't want to be annoyed by topics you're not interested in. Because there are some incredibly intelligent people that have gone on at great lengths about cannabis and its history that have taught me a lot. It's no longer kids bragging about getting high, and instead becomes a way to connect in a complete other way. Food for thought.

Because they think it makes them edgy and rebellious, like wearing a Che t-shirt or being vegan.

I'm fully in favour of legalising the stuff, partially because maybe then pot-smokers will stop pretending like they are this exclusive group of superior people.

Usually because they're new to it and so they feel the need to talk about it all the time; same as alcohol, sex, etc.

In my late teens/early twenties was when I first tried LSD/mushrooms and I was the same way about that for a short while.

I still smoke marijuana every once and a while, but yeah, I definitely don't feel the need to talk about it all the time...

I'm betting that the majority of those people you encountered have never smoked weed in their lives. Lulz

That was more or less my Junior year of high school with most of my friends.

Worst part was they never had any money to do ANYTHING,because they spent it all on weed.

So it was just sitting around in a friends greenhouse next to their parents house without any heat or air conditiong with nothing to do but talk to some high people who well... your post puts it best.

I know that feel, bro! I understand 100% of what you said. It's like weed distorts the thinking part of their brain & limits it to only talking about weed.


*puffs joint*

I don't know, but I have a friend who didn't start smoking until he was almost 30. He'd probably smoked before, but it certainly wasn't a habit or anything. Now he's a full on evangelist about it. Not just about legalization and whatnot, but how it's the best thing ever and how it heightens your perception and expands your consciousness and how it's so much healthier than smoking cigarettes no matter what anyone says and YOU SHOULD REALLY REALLY SMOKE IT, DUDE. It's equal parts amusing and annoying, but since he was always equal parts amusing and annoying I can't really tell a difference there except that now all the dumb shit he says is about weed.

My theory is that THC is a parasite like that fungus that creates all the zombie ants, and it propagates itself by getting you to convince other people to smoke up.

Yup.  In fact, the entire Las Plagas parasite infection in Resident Evil 4 was caused by a single joint...

Don't do drugs, kids.