I am pretty confidant I am older than both of you so here is some more unwanted advice and I am not trying to be derogatory. At some point we all need to grow up and take responsibility and live like an adult and that involves making hard decisions, it is the same thing I tell my daughter. If you want an LTC then you need to abide by the law or suffer the consequences. Obviously from your perspective 80% of the people you know do illegal drugs but that is not the case for everyone I am around. The fact is that in my occupation any kind of illegal drug use will result in instant termination from a high paying job and 99% of people will not take that risk so they do not do any illegal drugs nor are they in a situation where being around them would jeopardize their employment. Yes, there is always a small portion that will and suffer the consequences, I have seen people booted out of the military for it, people fired from my current employer for it and in my religious volunteering in the county jail I have spoken with people that lost their marriage, successful business and freedom for it. There will always be that small group willing to lose something over it. I can see your point that a large number of college kids do it (well even our current president freely admits it and we can see the evidence of that on the innerwebs) but people can choose to be around those things or separate themselves from it. I grew up around family and friends that regularly partook of illegal drugs yet I still removed myself from those situations.jb2012 wrote:I'll give you real advice because I feel like everything stated so far is comig from the point of view of a person older than me and you with a well established career and income. Number one, without prior knowledge of your roommates before you move in, the odds of you moving in with people that 100% stay away from drugs is slim at the very best. Y'all older folks can laugh at me and be naive about it, but the truth is probably 80%+ of the population uses drugs recreationally at some point or another, ESPECIALLY in the Austin and surrounding area. Since you referred to the rest of your lease as "this semester" I assume you are a student? I know right now there is absolutely no way I could afford to break my lease/pay off my lease/ "get out" etc. and I find the advice of "just get out" to be awfully useless. Obviously if he could just get out he would have done that already.
My advice:Obviously you're not about to bust them for smoking pot, as long as they are only using mj and nothing above that, I'd buy a safe for your car and lay low. You're probably going to be fine as long as they keep it in the house and y'all don't give the police a reason to come inside. The next thing I would do is ask that they keep that stuff in their rooms. When it's time to sign a new lease you should find some people with the same morals, values, and goals. Good luck buddy!
Edit: If there is ANY kind of commerce going on in your apartment you have the right to stop that, and you should not put up with that.
As was already mentioned there are many career fields that would disqualify you for being around a known illegal activity and doing nothing about it - it reveals ones character and not in a positive way. I have applied for jobs where I had to take a lie detector and by giving answers that he would have to would have disqualified me from the position. You never have to just accept the situation you are in and there is always a way out, even if it is not an easy one. I do not know this guys circumstances but I am certain if I did I could give him a way out of this. Us older folks have most likely already experienced the things you younger folks have not so we know in hindsight what the correct decision is since we have already lived through it. You can learn by our mistakes and life experiences or choose to not listen and make those same mistakes yourself. It may not be what he wanted to hear but it still doesn't change the fact that it is the correct answer. The best choice is not always the easy ones to make and i hope it turns out well for him in the end. Not to toot my own horn but this is the best advice you are going to get at 2 in the morning.............