Pot smoke is nothing like cigarette smoke. Everything from how much is actually smoked, down to the composition of what is being burned. I'm not gonna go bring up the research, I'm sick of doing it. I've done it for the past decade. I'm over it. It's out there if you are curious.

As for where he gets his weed? It's not that hard to find... and yeah, plenty of people share it... if you go chill in a park in NorCal, within an hour someone is going to try and smoke you out. Hell, in my house, I literally throw nugs at company and yell "SMOKE!?"

Now that I'm in TX, I can't do that at a park though. Still, my dealer is 7 minutes away, 5 of which is just getting out of my neighborhood. I met him at the local Kroger. I was picking up some diet coke with my homie and my homie knew my dealer, introduced us, he had better shit than my past dealer, I switched dealers. If it's not busy, you can even buy from two dudes who work at the local Chipotle.... who deal for the manager of said Chipotle.

Anyway, keep your chin up. If you keep your head down you won't notice an opportunity as it's passing.

Kinda like me stumbling upon weed dealers. >_>/

Lol, same @funkmasterrex. I always share my weed but I also don't mind if people don't want to smoke. I'm pretty chill about it tbh. There's a lot of people growing or sharing in my town, like, two minutes away. Almost half the people I know smokes or has smoked weed, and this includes lecturers, doctors, postdoctoral students, and coworkers. It has recently became legal here to smoke, but the amount of people didn't really change, people are just more open about it. We do try to be considerate though - not smoke publicly and not around people if they seem uncomfortable with it. But yeah, weed is really easy to find and most people are pretty chill about it.

That second part, the considerable part... man... three years ago I'd be driving around smoking, skunking up the entire place... There and back again... Now? Nah, not even the 15 minutes before when I go to the theater. It's on the balcony or in my tv room. The only time I even drive with actual bud in the car is when I have to pick it up myself (I try to bundle with a homie so we get more bang for our buck; why not). I won't even take a vape pen in a theater; they make me cough my ass off... that's not cool. If i have a vape-pen on me I'll puff that two or three times before going into the theater. Now that I think about it; outside of the yearly Six Flags trip, there's no other place I'd take that either. It's strange what happens when you go from hotboxing and shit as a HS kid to an adult who just... "I ain't got time for that".
On the first part, I've noticed I don't even smoke most of my own bud anymore. 2-3 hits per 5-6 hours unless I'm drunk and really trying to get fucked up

I hate myself for just how over obsessed I am about this guy. He’s great, and we can work something out with his issues. It’s not like I’m perfect either, I’ve got just as many if not more. I’ve always described it as two parts of my brain just screaming at each other always wanting two different things from the other. One wants to just text him all the time, the other just wants to keep the messaging to the weekends and minimally on weekdays. I make myself so worked up over nothing and I can’t calm myself down. He’s a guy so he’s probably already over this but for me it’s been bothering me for 2 days. I want to text him but I just feel like I can’t. I want to hug this guy, hold his hand, just be with him. But I can’t because I feel like he’s a stranger after this argument.

You're not obsessed you were just excited. It happens to all of us. I think if you've been lonely that also exacerbates the issue.
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Guys don't get over things that quickly, believe it or not. I mean, some do, but it's a person to person situation.
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I think you should take a couple days and maybe think about what you want to say to him. Everything that's been occurring to you. And then maybe try and narrow it down to the main points-- the things you've found most upsetting or uplifting, and how this entire thing has made you feel. Perhaps try writing them out. Once you've got your thoughts a bit more organized then you can decide whether you even want to say them to him at all

Well, he replied to me and he said it’s not really worth talking about. I asked him if that meant that he wasn’t mad about it or just didn’t want to talk about it and he said it was a little of both. And that he said he wasn’t going to bother me anymore with his life choices. I said he could never ever bother me with his choices and that I was just shocked because of what recently happened with a friend of mine and we had to part ways because of how he was acting and how unapologetic he was about it. But with K I understand where he was coming from and why he did it and why he stopped doing it. I’m afraid I’ve just ruined the trusting relationship we had. I hope not.. I like people trusting me and feeling so open with me. I feel like it just brings the relationship closer and bonds the people together.

Soooo... you say 1) it bothers you he was smoking and drinking and 2) "he could never ever bother me with his choices".
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What do you mean? It's one or the other. People aren't going to conform to what you want. They more you push, the greater the resistance. You are starting to sound like you'd rather shape this dude into an image you have of him that you created in your mind... when it's clear he's NOTHING like that.

Woah, no it’s nothing like that my guy. It did bother me that he DID smoke and drink. He doesn’t anymore since his grandma passed away. It bothered be so much then because of my old friend who got into that stuff and I had to part ways with him. @funkmasterex I’m looking for supportive advice, not judgement.

I'm not judging, I'm observing. Even "supportive advice" sounds more like "I want you all to agree with me on ______".
Criticism, constructively, is helpful. Echo chambers, even with the right message, are damaging. Only seeking out supporting advice that validates your own pre-conceived notion is harmful. Arguably it can be as harmful as any drug you criticized him for. In a way, it's your own drug; you're getting high on your own validation.

Dude, that’s not it at all. I don’t want him to change because I told him to. He can change his ways if he wants for his own personal health. Its for my own validation at all. You really aren’t helping. It’s kind of resolved now anyways. We talked last night.

Don't get me wrong, I do it as well, it's how I can recognize it... that's why I never said you were right or wrong about any of it; I just shared my own experiences.

Well.. can we at least agree that squirrels are chill?

Okay, so just addressing the issue in general (this isn't aimed at you pbachman):
-Cutting anybody who ever touches any kind of substance from your life is not feasible. You will literally have to live in a box in the middle of the ocean. As with everything, there are degrees to how much someone uses a substance, and there are degrees to how far you have to let someone into your life.
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-if someone has a sip of wine once in awhile treating them the same as someone who literally sells their children to feed their meth addiction obviously is illogical.
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-acquaintance, friend, romantic interest, or cut from your life entirely.
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-if someone smokes weed and that makes a person uncomfortable they're not required to be best friends forever just because lots of people do it. It also doesn't mean you CAN'T be friends, as long as you can mutually respect each others' decisions and don't let your choices interfere with the ability to maintain the friendship.

Additionally you're never required to date anyone who engages in any behaviour that makes you uncomfortable to that degree-- and you probably shouldn't. Inevitably it will put too much strain on the relationship. A vegetarian who can't stand meat likely wouldn't do well in a relationship with someone who eats bacon everyday for breakfast. A person who wants kids won't do well in a relationship with a person who loathes and vows to never have them.
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Neither of them should be expected to date one another or demeaned for choosing not to. Demanding the person stop eating bacon isn't reasonable. And, unless one of you is willing to relent, it's too big of a lifestyle choice to not interfere and cause resentment.
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As a side note this wasn't aimed at you, either, funkmaster. I meant to include you before but can't edit the message so now you're at the bottom.

As a side note, I think what pbachman meant was that he could never bother her by TALKING about his life choices, the problems he's had, how and why he got through them etc. She was trying to be supportive to him opening up about an experience he had in the past abusing alcohol and drugs. You don't necessarily have to agree with someone's choices at a specific point in their life to be able to listen and empathize with what they're talking about-- and that doesn't make you a hypocrite. Perhaps it didn't come off that way, but that's been my interpretation of what she said-- and @pbachman21 can certainly correct me if I'm wrong

Anyway, I'm not sure why you feel you've ruined the trust in your relationship, but I'm not exactly sure what either of you said. If you feel like you pushed too hard you can certainly try and apologize for that, but this sounds to me that, given your backgrounds, it would have been an issue that came up eventually either way.
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The fact that he offered an explanation about such a touchy subject implies to me he either does trust you to a degree and felt he owed you an explanation, or else he simply feels THAT defensive about the issue, probably again due to the kind of household he lives in.
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It's impossible to know for sure at this stage. As I said, you can either give it a couple days to give him and yourself a chance to organize your thoughts, or you can try and extend an explanation, as you did here, apologize if you made him uncomfortable and feel you want to, and just let him know you value being able to talk with him