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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 628548" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Are you 100% sure he is only using pot? Pot alone doesn't usually lead to such drastically horrible behavior and the acceptance of that degree of living arrangements? Don't get me wrong. I am sure that now that pot is almost legal, there will be plenty of horrible stuff coming out about it and we will find that some people can not handle it, but it doesn't have the affects on people that, say, cocaine does. I thought my daughter was just smoking pot too. She was on parole twice because of pot. Now that she is clean, she has told us the whole story and I was really shocked when I learned exactly what she was using...it was mostly speed, including meth, and she did the speed when we were asleep. She also had tried psychodelics and HEROIN!!!! I thought that once you tried heroin you were hooked for life, but she claims she tried it twice and that was it and I know she isn't using heroin now...or anything.</p><p></p><p>Pot makes the person unmotivated and usually spacey. IF they are sensitive to it, like me (yes, I tried it a few times) and it can make you paranoid, hungry, and I personally don't think anyone should drive while on it...your reflexes are affected. But it doesn't make sense that your son would go to the extremes he is going to just because of pot. However...there are a lot of worse stuff often tossed into pot these days. It is unlikely pot is the only thing affecting him.</p><p></p><p>I think the best thing you can do, because it is really the only thing you can do, is to let him decide the path of his life. You're his mom and you love him to pieces, but you can't do anything for him anymore. Just agreeing to go into a rehab means nothing. It's if your son is clean for a year or so. A big indicator, which I saw when my daughter got tired of the drug world, is that drug addicts/users hang together and don't want one another to quit. Your son will have a whole new set of friends if he really is serious about quitting. If he continues to hang with a bad crowd of people it is becausing he is chosging to hang with others who live like him and think it is ok. People who live clean, sober, sane lives really don't want to hang around with those who don't.</p><p></p><p>I really hope your son decides to get the help he so desperately needs. I hoped my daughter would too...I thought she'd end up in jail or dead. She was so skinny, it scared me. But she did quit and s he did it quietly, without announcing it, without rehab, all by herself. The one thing we all noticed was that she was always alone because she didn't want to hang with druggies anymore and she didn't know how to make friends with nicer people. But she learned that too.</p><p></p><p>Keep the Faith. Never give up hope. But you can't do it for him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 628548, member: 1550"] Are you 100% sure he is only using pot? Pot alone doesn't usually lead to such drastically horrible behavior and the acceptance of that degree of living arrangements? Don't get me wrong. I am sure that now that pot is almost legal, there will be plenty of horrible stuff coming out about it and we will find that some people can not handle it, but it doesn't have the affects on people that, say, cocaine does. I thought my daughter was just smoking pot too. She was on parole twice because of pot. Now that she is clean, she has told us the whole story and I was really shocked when I learned exactly what she was using...it was mostly speed, including meth, and she did the speed when we were asleep. She also had tried psychodelics and HEROIN!!!! I thought that once you tried heroin you were hooked for life, but she claims she tried it twice and that was it and I know she isn't using heroin now...or anything. Pot makes the person unmotivated and usually spacey. IF they are sensitive to it, like me (yes, I tried it a few times) and it can make you paranoid, hungry, and I personally don't think anyone should drive while on it...your reflexes are affected. But it doesn't make sense that your son would go to the extremes he is going to just because of pot. However...there are a lot of worse stuff often tossed into pot these days. It is unlikely pot is the only thing affecting him. I think the best thing you can do, because it is really the only thing you can do, is to let him decide the path of his life. You're his mom and you love him to pieces, but you can't do anything for him anymore. Just agreeing to go into a rehab means nothing. It's if your son is clean for a year or so. A big indicator, which I saw when my daughter got tired of the drug world, is that drug addicts/users hang together and don't want one another to quit. Your son will have a whole new set of friends if he really is serious about quitting. If he continues to hang with a bad crowd of people it is becausing he is chosging to hang with others who live like him and think it is ok. People who live clean, sober, sane lives really don't want to hang around with those who don't. I really hope your son decides to get the help he so desperately needs. I hoped my daughter would too...I thought she'd end up in jail or dead. She was so skinny, it scared me. But she did quit and s he did it quietly, without announcing it, without rehab, all by herself. The one thing we all noticed was that she was always alone because she didn't want to hang with druggies anymore and she didn't know how to make friends with nicer people. But she learned that too. Keep the Faith. Never give up hope. But you can't do it for him. [/QUOTE]
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