Friend with Weed Problem

LegacyUser

I have a friend who has had a real problem with smoking weed in the past. At first it was just a joint or two with everyone else, but then it got to him sitting in on his own all weekend smoking.
Anyway we were all worried about him and we talked to him and managed to start resolving the problem.
Now though he's just told us that he's booked a holiday with two of his work mate's to Prague in two weeks.
At first we thought this was quite innocuous, but now I've heard that Prague has quite a big drugs scene.
Also that it is ridiculously easy to get your hands on weed even if you don't know the town. Also been told that the Police are pretty lax about it and tend not to care.
Can anyone put paid to these rumors? Is it easy to get and do the police not seem to care?
Because the last thing he needs is to be tossed in a Czech prison cell i reckon...

Teddi

ok OP, first of all...reeelax.


I think your making a mountain out of a molehill here..

police?....c'mon....he'd need to be running around a public street in prague with 4 joints in his mouth before anyone batters an eyelid...and yes..prague police are lazy bastards so don't worry about them.

as for your mate?..theres not much you can do...its his choice to do as he pleases...often weed abuse entails a deeper meaning as to why he's doing it...depressed?...anxcious?....lonely?..... usually people dont get hooked on weed..but use it to fill a certain void...this..i'd advise you to talk to him about...

ive had my fairshare of weed....and all it does for you is forget things and makes you paranoid.....i have it the odd time, at parties etc, but i take it responsibily....he just needs to tone it down...have a one on one with him...im sure its not as bad as you think

dav nagle

Weed is an escape from day to day reality, It is hard to leave it. So strong. He will only stop if HE has a good reason . That is the reality. He has to decide, it is a waste of space trying to help him unless he wants help.

AARRRGH

Yeah, there's not much you can do OP. If he wants to smoke weed, he's going to smoke weed.

Overheal

Teddi wrote: »

ok OP, first of all...reeelax.

Teddi I didnt take you for the type

But I'm 100% with Dublindude: theyre gonna smoke if they wanna smoke. Not a whole lot you can do about that. I can't even get my own brother to cut back. The most you can do is keep advising him its a bad thing for him but in all seriousness don't expect much out of that. Don't stress your head over this for very long. In most cases they grow out of it.

Irishcrx

It could be just a phase and as long as he doesn't start on any harder drugs I wouldn't look to much into it. Pressuring and lecturing him won't help the situation, maybe talk to him about what is causing him to smoke so much rather than the smoking itself.

In saying that I enjoy a joint myself at the weekend and sometimes I do it on my own aswell, to relax, watch a DVD, it's my way of unwinding it doesn't always mean i'm doing it to cover anything up...I have alcohol for that

jackal

Pretty easy to get over there alright. Its not amsterdam, but a quick look at the internets will tell you what pubs to go to.