Today can be very stressful for the US members in recovery. Please remember to celebrate your independence from the chains of active addiction today. Come here, check in at TS and reach out for help if you’re struggling. Best wishes to you all
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Thank you Dan!! Take care of yourself and enjoy the day.
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Happy 4th from over the pond 
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Appreciate the post. I’m at an alcohol free 4th of July thing but everyone just started smoking weed so I’m kinda just out in left field by myself. Even if you don’t partake in the stuff it can still lead to some awkward and/or lonely situations. Hope everyone’s having a good one
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I totally relate to lonilyness with weed sobriety
I would suggest to watch them with a sober mind and see if its really worth it
Id also say stay clear minded till the end to see how many people leave or get iffy
In my experience
Smoking pot is really boring
But very difficult to abstaine from
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I cant express how much lonliness i experienced while others smoked and i would never make another person feel that way
Find your buddies and just chill with them 
Theres nothing wrong with that
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My friends starting smoking with the others lol. Thankfully smoking itself was never my thing. Weed was my replacement for alcohol for a while, but I did edibles. Most of all just glad I have solid enough sobriety that I just waited it out until they were done and came back. I live in a state where it’s legal recreationally too so it’s just something I always have to be prepared to deal with randomly. Weed was never much of my thing, but these situations do make you feel left out even if you don’t want to do it with them
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I am pretty pleased that I never liked the way THC made me feel. Otherwise, I’d have been battling with it as long as alcohol.
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Yeah it was hit or miss for me. I couldn’t predict how it would make it feel it felt like honestly. When you’re the only one not doing it though it puts you in this weird position. Such is sobriety sometimes
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I am usually doing something other people aren’t. 
My biggest challenge will always be me.
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How you holding up now?
I’m good. I appreciate you asking. It didn’t bother me to where it made me want to go smoke with them, the thing that was annoying to deal with was being left alone to be the odd man out. Thankfully it didn’t last too long though
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That’s good. I’m almost 7 years sober and sometimes still feel like the odd man out. I’m not around any mind altering stuff too often. Everyone I know drinks, although my wife doesn’t drink very often.
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Yeah it’s just part of sobriety. You have to be able to be around the stuff and not let it bother you, but it does still have those weird interactions or situations attached. Since people don’t consider non alcoholic drinking options as much as social gatherings or special events either they’ll just be like oh do you want like uh water? It almost becomes something similar to someone who has a very restrictive diet due to medical reasons and nobody seems to know what to do. And sometimes you’ll say you’re sober and people won’t understand that you’re including weed into that. Weed has become a more difficult one for people to understand why a sober person would stay away from it than anything else it seems. I try to explain it in simple terms. Being in a state where it’s legal makes it tougher though
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I had a good 4th
I love holidays
I listen to a lot of music