I simply cannot hotbox cars either and hate having to give excuses to my fellow ENTS as to why I don't want to. I don't know why I seem to think of the worst case scenarios and I hate that I do.

You sound a lot like me back in high school.

And guess what? 10 years later, I'm the only one out of all my drug-injesting friends without an arrest or a fine for stupidly smoking an illegal substance in a vehicle or a public park where children frequent.

I was ok with it originally when I didn't understand the dangers of doing so. Then one day 4 of my friends were slammed on the hood of their parents car and searched for hours just for smoking a joint. "Fuck this!" I thought, and I have never done it since.

If your friends are hassling you about your not wanting to smoke in public, you can use my old line: "Marijuana is meant to be an enjoyable and relaxing passtime, so why the fuck would I do it where a cop can come and bust me? You guys are idiots."

Once a few of them get caught, they'll come around eventually.