RG0018

I started smoking pot regularly last summer which was around the same time that my parents found out.

Since then, we've had a series of arguments because they are so much more conservative than me (Armenian parents tend to be).

Almost every weekend I find time to smoke in my room and the mood in the house gets tense and my parents are too hurt to talk to me.

These are their thoughts and feelings:

-they think I'm addicted psychologically (maybe, but I deal with it fine)

-they think I'm throwing my life away (I may not have a job, but I'm a full-time university student with a 3.5 GPA)

-they feel like we're growing distant, I avoid/change plans in order to get high

-and (of course) they think I'll move on to harder drugs (which I certainly know I should avoid)

Throughout this year I have tried my damndest to convince them that weed is not nearly as bad as what they have made it out to be.

So basically I need advice about my inner conflict.

Do I give up something I enjoy because my parents irrationally suffer because of it? or Do I continue to try to rationally argue and show that I am a functioning human being with a habit?

I hate that I'm hurting them when I don't find anything wrong with smoking pot responsibly.

I enjoy an occasional rolled cigarette every now and then and I like how they aren't easy to access like regular cigarettes, since I have to make each one by hand.

But I wonder whether I would get hooked so badly that I will start to crave more and more causing me to start buying packs of manufactured cigarettes.

Is it possible to keep smoking one rolled cigarette a day without getting full on addicted?

What are important things I should remember when I take my behind the wheel driving test? What do they usually take points off for?

I asked Whole Foods and Trader Joes and they don't carry them.

Are cacao beans as beneficial as they say?

I saw this years and years ago. Apparently some guy had a formula that he poured on pictures of women and those pictures came to life. And these women would all say "Kiss me and I'll be yours forever." He wouldn't kiss them and finally a giant woman chased him into the bathroom and tried to break the door open to get to him. Oh, and there was a part when only half of one girl comes out of the page.

Is being a flat out good, respecting gentlemen still considered attractive? Consider Roger Moore as James Bond if you can.