Facing Basil (J)

Dear Stranger, it's J .

This weekend I have plans with L and C. I'm pretty excited, but unfortunately I still have to feel guilty because my friend M still hates L.

Basically, among my friends 'basil' is code for weed. Which explains the odd title...

I've gotten to know this new girl, L, quite a bit more. She's pretty awesome, she's very experienced with the whole basil and alcohol thing, more so than me. Of course I have smoked weed, and I have had many drinks and been drunk a number of uncountable times, but this still seems minimal compared to her downtown life. Her parents moved her here to get away from all that bad stuff, I don't want her parents to get the wrong impression of C and I, because I only do those things on rare occasion - considering my age and lack of access to drugs and alcohol.
But also I'm worried that now that we're friends I'll be doing it a lot more. We are this weekend...
I'm psyched for this weekend though. My other two close friends; M and Velvet, are really against weed and partially against alcohol. M always tries to argue the, "Cigarettes aren't as bad as weed," which is absolute nonsense. She hasn't tried either so she can't even have a strong opinion on the subject but she makes me feel bad for doing weed. Whatever. I'm doing it.
I just hope I don't get too into it.