isn't that what parents are supposed to do???? teach the kids right from wrong? teaching them from our mistakes?

Believe it or not, I was totally against drugs for years. My brother smoked pot, and I was always giving him sh!t about it. I knew the dangers and issues involving drug use as a child...so I was always against it. Then one day without any kind of peer pressure...more out of curiosity, I decided to try marijuana, and I realized it wasn't as bad as everyone said. I never got dependent on it. I admit, it did make me want to experiment with LSD, but I never got dependent on that either.


BTW...I was exposed to drugs at a very young age. My mom and her friends would have parties where people were getting high. But yet...I was STILL against it for the rest of my childhood.


This is from my personal experience. Different strokes for different folks. Not everyone has the same mindset and willpower.

good post....but it would be irresponsible for a parent to allow it IMO

I agree. My mom certainly didn't approve when she found out I started smoking weed. But, she knew that there was nothing she could do about it, because I was a stubborn little brat. So...instead, she sat me down and said if you feel MUST smoke pot, I would rather you do that than drink. Mainly because my fathers side of the family is notorious for being hardcore alcoholics...so in a weird way she was looking out for my better interest. Lesser of two evils.

I wish I would have listened to her, since I HAVE had issues with alcoholism since.

No parent should allow their kids to smoke if they have any control over it(which isnt always the case)

Smoking pot and trying to learn, is a bad combination. Your concentration is diminshed and your thoughts are scattered. And of course, it generally makes you lethargic and lazy.

Again....different strokes for different folks. Personally it didn't really effect my learning skills or concentration, and it didn't make me dumb (like so many people generalize). I smoked weed every day of my junior and senior year, and I graduated mid-term with a GPA of 3.0

However...it DID turn me into an unmotivated couch potato. But I was already half way there anyway.

But..you never know... you might have received a 3.5 or higher without it. You might have pushed yourself harder.

I agree that it would interfere with their learning. I would like to add that I hope my child doesn't start smoking cigs too.

But you may have done even better if you didnt smoke pot. I cant imagine that smoking actually HELPED you.

I have smoked pot myself practically every day for the past ten years, so i understand the drug very well although i never did it when i was in education.

Its not going to have a severe impact for everybody, but in general terms, its going to have negative impact.

and then again...you could have gotten really into junk food

and become one of the millions of obese people in the world



or you might have ended up a money hungry person seeking power & position


who clawed his way to the top of the corporate ladder


only to look for bail outs when he misappropriated funds...




the point is that

No one can predetermine how they lives would have been ...

and i can speak from personal experience

cause I and my own children have used pot

and we are doing just fine

& have always held down good jobs

if i had to choose one thing over the other ,

i would choose pot every day

I am glad i didn't get into

so many of the other crazy fanaticisms

that often dominate people's lives
..

people are always going to be creatures of habit

so, we have to choose our habits carefully

Good points Winx and Dan. And you're probably right. I possibly would have been able to get even better grades, be more motivated, and get a decent scholarship to a prestigious university.


Who knows? I could have been a doctor prescribing marijuana to patients. Or a scientist/botanist growing it.

You are absolutely right that pot is not necessarily the worst thing that a child could be doing.

But however you look at it, it is better that they dont smoke it.

As it is for adults.

and I choose to teach my child right from wrong. and if he does wrong...he will face consequences

pot does relax you (some more extreme than others). the doctors suggested i try pot but i had a bad reaction so i couldn't do it. but it was for the intent of relaxing me and helping the muscles relax

so because it's not AS BAD....it's ok to let the kids smoke it?

Good points Rapunzel.

I have no regrets either.

I believe everything happens for a reason, and good always comes out of bad choices eventually.

Nobody is saying it's ok. But, if it happens (and it's a good possibility it will...something like 3 out of 5 people try pot at least once) don't think it's a huge deal and the end of the world. There are FAR worse issues you could be dealing with. Like if your kids were into gangbanging, stealing, violence, robbery, etc....

true...but pointing out that it's not as bad as this or that???? it is still illegal....whether it's a good law or bad....it's still a law.

i smoke cigarettes but don't want my son to (even though he can buy his own now). i have told him it's the worst habit to get into.

there are a lot of things that i have learned from personal experience that i don't want my son to do. he is 18 now....so what he does....is on him.

Well, Dan ...please hear me out

okay >

I have such bad injuries

the doctors wanted me on a maintainence program

of morphine and then of oxycontin

when i developed tolerances to the morphine

as a Mother and a Grandmother i have responsibilities big time

ad i refused to allow myself to become a legal zombie...


Pot mellows me and helps me cope with my injuries


and still be very coherent


and if more people would use pot for injuries \\


instead of the hard core stuff the legal drug pushers give us ,


we would all be much better off as a human species


I would rather use pot as medication

than allow myself to become so vapid on powerful narcotics



and no one can debate me on that one ,

cause it is as cut and dry as you can get

my son wants to be a cop and doesn't want to screw it up by something illegal

btw....found this

http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchReports/Marijuana/Marijuana3.html