averagerunner wrote:
Thanks for all the advice guys, I'm still not sure what to do. Sadly, there smoking right now, and some more members of the team came over to join. I just feel this is not acceptable. One kid was our 6th or 7th man in the beginning of the season, but ever since he started smoking hes become really lazy and is about 15th on the team now, plus I don't know if he has noticed but he has definitely packed on the pounds in the last couple months. Its not that I don't like my roommates, it's just I think they are hurting themselves and the rest of the team.
Ever think that maybe pot smoking is correlated with a lack of motivation, but is not a cause of it? Don't confuse correlation and causation.
For example-
World class distance runners are thin. It would be foolish to assume that their lack of body weight causes them to be fast, there are other factors as evidenced by the fact that there are very many slow, skinny people. Instead, being a world class distance runner causes one to be thin. Being thin is correlated with being a fast distance runner, but is not the cause.
The kid could have just lost his motivation to run, then figured "why not smoke pot?"