Basically, i got caught smoking pot by my folks after like three years. I'm a senior and graduating in june.

I've been tested twice by my folks, each time i passed, but one time it was fake urine and it tested too cold, teh other time it came up as watered down (i just drank a lot of fluids the days before). They know i do it, and have said after HS i can do whatever i want, but need to move out if i'm going to keep toking up. (I already have my plans for moving out secured, so that's not a problem.)

Before i got caught, i didn't smoke all that often, it was more of a social thing pretty rarely (once a week-once a month). Since getting caught, i have nothing else to do all day (I can go to work, church, and school.) And i've been just toking and playing guitar most of the time. Havn't been caught at home at all (very careful about it) since the original incident, but the other night a friend of mine smoked in my room before we crashed and my mom smelled it. (She and my dad both used to smoke pot)

I can have peeps at my house, but i'm stuck here and can only get out when i say i work then do something else.

I'm not going to quit smoking because i enjoy it, a lot of friends of mine do it and the house i'm moving into in june doesn't have a single non-stoner there.
I don't even mind quitting just till i move out, which is fine with my parents.

Now to that you all have what's happened up to this point, my problem.

I hate being in this position of not being able to be honest with my folks about anything, it makes things easier to just say i'm going out with friends instead of working to get out for three and a half hours.

Since i have so little time left in the school year, I want to get out and be able to enjoy myself, but this untimely being caught (but a vengeful ex i think, my parents knew EXACTALLY where to go to get to my pot, which included breaking through a lock.) Has screwed up my life for the time being.

The truth is i'm smoking a lot more now than i used to because there's nothing else to do at home when i'm here (alone a lot of the time) with nothing to do.

I want to bring this up with my parents and come to some sort of agreement so that i can get out and enjoy the last months of my senior year without restriction. This is gonna be tough because their trust is shot, and my friend getting caught in my room the other night got blamed on me.

I'm trying to build some arguments so that i can hopefully get out of here. It sounds like a lot of people here have it in good with their folks, or have been in situations at least a little like mine.

My folks are both REALLY religious, like teaching bible study religious, so keep that in mind.

Anyone have any help?

Tell them if they want your drug tests to show up positive, then they need to let you get out a little.

Also, even if you have nothing else to do while at home, stop smoking anyways. It will show them you actually care about getting out, as well as quitting smoking, whether you want to or not. Why should they trust you going out when you smoke even when you're at home?

Like i said, i don't mind quitting until i move out, the problem is that it could take me over a month to pass a test without strange results (like the watered down urine), and i'm running out of time to enjoy myself in HS. They had actually let up and let me go out a few times before my friends got caught in my room (they assumed it was all my fault, which i couldn't even argue). It sucks and it's bad luck, but i'm stuck with that situation.


They don't think i'm smoking at home now, and i only have once the last few days, and that was late at night. They're simply "punishing" me now, it isn't to try and get me to stop smoking pot as much as just punishing me for doing it before. THIS is what i need help talking my way out of.

Simple: STOP

I appreciate the advice, but i'm not sure either of you read the post right...

I said (in both of my posts) that quitting was fine with me, that IS NOT THE PROBLEM AT HAND. I'm looking for some help with my parents and seeing if anyone here has any experience getting out once something similar has happened.

I guess immediate gratification is what i'm after, but when i dont' have that much time left till school's out and i don't see many of these friends again, i want to make the best of it...this includes getting out of the house and past my parents.

So ASSUMING I DO QUIT AS OF NOW, what would you all suggest i use against my parents to get out of the house?

I understand that smoking weed is fun, but to tell your parents that is not a good idea. Say..."mom it's my senior year and probaby NEVER SEE my friends at school again. I just want to hangout with them." something similar. anyways i gotta do talk with my gramma thats about to die. good luck.

You don't know me, or anything about me past what this post has said, to call me a faggot would be as immature as a 29 year old floating around the high school forum at 6:30 on a saturday night to insult people.

Originally posted by DJoneday
I appreciate the advice, but i'm not sure either of you read the post right...

I said (in both of my posts) that quitting was fine with me, that IS NOT THE PROBLEM AT HAND. I'm looking for some help with my parents and seeing if anyone here has any experience getting out once something similar has happened.

I guess immediate gratification is what i'm after, but when i dont' have that much time left till school's out and i don't see many of these friends again, i want to make the best of it...this includes getting out of the house and past my parents.

So ASSUMING I DO QUIT AS OF NOW, what would you all suggest i use against my parents to get out of the house?

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I wasn't saying that quitting wasn't fine with you. What I was saying is that as far as your parents know (because of the watered down drug tests and your friend), you still do it. Whether you quit right now or not, they still think you do it. You have to find a way to prove to them that you don't do it anymore. Try seriously talking to them about you having quit. If they believe you, they'll be happy with you. Kiss some more ass for another week or two, then try and talk to them about letting you out. Tell them it's your senior year and you want to be able to hang out with your friends.