It should not come as a surprise to anyone that a person who has recently given up a drug still experiences temptation. It seems to me that discussing that temptation with others is one of the ways of coping with it. I don't think that judgemental responses to his mentioning it does anyone any good.
Neither does coddling a suburbanite with a bad habit that isn't actually addicted to anything.
I'll bet he could park his car in the parking lot of the pot shop and read a good aviation book and never walk inside. If he can't handle that, he's not ready to hold someone else's life in his hands.
That is, after all, the entire point of the Private ticket. The standard never changed. Pilot in Command.
What say you anonymous? Could you park the car in front of the pot store and read a good aviation book?
I think a little peer pressure and making him think a little harder about his responsibilities as PIC actually does do some good here. It isn't about him flying, it's about him flying *passengers*. His habit isn't compatible with his goal.
It ain't about regulations, or what "schedule" the Feds put on any drug -- it's about responsibility level.
YMMV, but generally nobody, including but *not limited to* FAA, wants him anywhere near a cockpit, if he can't make the relatively easy decision to put flying above stopping at the pot shop on the way home for Doritos, cookies, and weed.
Never seen an addict cajoled nicely into going straight. It doesn't work. Seen plenty of potheads magically go overnight from "needing" it to not touching it ever again as soon as they needed the paycheck worse than they needed the pot.
I think he's figured that out. The conversation now is more about not whining about his choice to be PIC over stopping at the pot shop, than anything.
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