Um... I feel like I need to point out that everything said about weed in this chapter is almost completely untrue. It is definitely addictive and is literally considered a poison, so it has extremely dangerous and long-lasting side effects that will severely damage tge victim and eventually kill. Also, the high itself massively damages your judgement making centers in your brain- you ate not even remotely in control while high, though you do remain lucid so it doesn’t seem that way. An overdose will also just flat out kill you.
I don't have anything against characters in a story smoking or drinking or doing what ever but this felt like a blatant rant on how people should smoke marijuana. It felt forced like it only happened because you have an axe to grind. So just to be clear it's not that they were smoking but that it felt poorly integrated. There was no lead up even slightly suggesting that smoking or drinking or anything of the like was looked down upon but then the mc had to go on a rant to try and convince his friends that it was all fine and they should join him. Please don't put this kind of rant in your story without at least some kind of world building and set up beforehand but preferably not at all unless it is important to the development of the story and charicters. So now that I am finished my rant I will continue the story and see how it goes. Thank you and please keep writing you are doing good.
Dear author, Please stop spreading your own misconceptions of smokin weed as some kind of "scientific facts". Smoking anything is harmful for more reasons than one and furthermore weed smoke has a lot of same carcinogens as tobacco smoking. While some studies have said that weed safer, there are studies to the contrary and plainly speaking the number of studies on weed smoking are miniscule compared to those on tobacco. It is very likely that weed smoking might be a bit better but still very unhealthy especially given the composition of weed smoke that still has tons of carcinogens along with other harmful chemicals. So please do not to spread the blatant misconceptions about weed smoking and rather study a lot more on this subject first to correct them (perhaps for your sake too?).
I was kinda shocked at the blatant use and defence about weed this chapter, but after the initial shock it was rather interesting. Most novels I read avoid drug use, even if there's alot if alcohol drugs and especially smoking is never mentioned. While I think the MC did rant a bit too much about it being "all good", this was an interesting chapter. Though, I do hope being high won't get in the way of actual plot