Is it normal for my best friend to be a dick about me quitting pot?

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I have struggled with marijuana addiction for 8 years. It's been an ongoing battle of wanting to quit and not wanting to. Every time I tried I had failed, so I just accepted my fate as a stoner.

However, recently I've been growing tired of it. Coming to realization that this isn't what I want to do. It's boring, it just isn't fun. So, I wanted to quit for good. Today, I told my parents about my problem, and they were more than happy of offer their support to help me quit.

I started spreading the news to my friends, as I was fairly excited to turn a new leaf. Most of them used to smoke weed with me and they were thrilled with the news (many of them have also tried to quit and failed). But, when I told my best friend he was not happy. He didn't give me any sort of emotion, in fact he was just being a dick. I've done a lot for this guy, including drive him anywhere at anytime, buying him dinner, etc. For me to get a response like this really puts me off. Why isn't he happy like the others? Is this behaviour normal?

(Some of you may have already seen this, I reposted because I accidentally put the tags in the title block and vice versa)

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  • cosmictripster
    9 years ago

    Is your best friend also a stoner? If you're one of the only people he smokes with he could be mad that you're quitting for selfish reasons assuming that you're being stuck up for trying to change or something. Or if he mooches weed off of you that'd be another reason he'd be mad. If so that's his problem and not yours though. Just do what you want and tell him to fuck off if he can't accept it.

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  • jojo338955701
    9 years ago

    Sounds like he shouldnt be your best friend.

    Congratz to you, though! Quitting something like pot, on your own, is a tough thing to do and i wish you the best of luck.

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    • Spankz
      9 years ago

      Thank you very much :)

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  • anonthebarbarian
    9 years ago

    He is worried that you wont smoke with him any more or buy his pot...the only reason you guys were friends is because of pot...you so you sober up and realize that was the only thing you had in common (that and the love for video games and cheedos)

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  • Goomats
    9 years ago

    Your friend is a jerk and probably is jealous that you quit pot and he doesn't think he can.

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  • pixie44
    9 years ago

    He's probably just mad that you wont be smoking with him anymore.. which is pretty selfish if you ask me. I'm glad you decided to quit not everyone believes that you can become "addicted" to weed and i'm glad you actually have some common sense. I wish you the best!! And i quit myself so if you need any advice i'm here to help :) Been sober for about 3 years.

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    • Spankz
      9 years ago

      I think he might think that he's losing me, because I'm not going to be around as much. But, he has to understand that I need to do this for myself. I always put the feelings of others before mine and I was never happy. Being selfless is a good quality, but sometimes you need to take care of yourself first.

      When I first started I didn't think it was possible to be addicted. Now that I'm in this mess I actually believe it. Congrats on being sober for that long :) that's wonderful!

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  • Arm0se
    9 years ago

    He's not a friend, he's a smoking buddy. I have lots of people that aren't my "friends" be we do some stuff together. A tech buddy, a guy that gives me money buddy, and internet meme buddy, a star wars buddy, ect... but I would never call them my friends because I don't do anything else with them but that one thing.

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    • Spankz
      9 years ago

      Well I thought he was my best friend. He was always there for me, through my really bad break up, whenever I needed a friend, he seemed like a genuine friend. I didn't consider him to be just a smoking buddy, I always thought he was much more than just that, he was like a brother. I could walk into his house without him being home and just talk to his parents. He was like family to me, which is why this behaviour makes no sense :/

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      • Arm0se
        9 years ago

        My bad.

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        • Spankz
          9 years ago

          No, no, it's okay. I probably should have elaborated more on our relationship in the original post.

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