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When I would deliver pizza I would always smell weed in the house and a young punk would answer the door with kids running around inside. I wanted to puke.
Do you guys who smoke pot and have kids, encourage them to smoke weed too?
Do guys get high infront of them?
Do you guys smoke with them?
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When I would deliver pizza I would always smell weed in the house and a young punk would answer the door with kids running around inside. I wanted to puke.
My mother has smoked pot for as long as I can remember. She's never hidden it from me. She's never taken a "do what I say, not what I do" approach. She's never directly encouraged me to experiment with drugs, but she's also never specifically discouraged me from experimentation as long as I was mature enough and smart enough to handle the situation responsibly.
My mother is a highly motivated, highly intelligent, highly successful college professor.
I am 30 years old, rarely drink, and my entire drug history consists of one hit of ecstasy and three pot brownies, all of which I thought were highly overrated.
Marijuana isn't a problem. Ignorance and irresponsibility are.
Do you still want to buy those goof balls off me ?
+1
If I was a smoker I'd smoke in private however I'd probably not be an everyday smoker (maybe a couple of times a month). If I did smoke or thought about becoming a smoker I wouldn't do it in front of the kids (non of us would) because its illegal.
Although I don't thinks its much different than people who drink a beer in front of their kids legally. I find booze to be a much worse far more distructive drug. A regular boozer even with a high tolerence still loses control where I don't see that compounded of an effect with dope.
I don't promote it to the kids. They know if they become curious or interested in something we can discuss it. I've also explained to them that any substance needs to be addressed before consumption and that I'm not particularly against pot like I am the stuff thats snorted or shot but that doesn't mean its to be taken lightly. Anything in excess has potential dangers.
Both my mother in law and my father in law smoke with their adult children. Not in front of the kids though.
With all that said I highly doubt you'd even know if a regular user actually smoked. A semi-regular to regular user typically has few warning signs. Eyes don't droop or get red nearly as bad as they did when they first became a smoker. They don't get the giggles or act weird. You gotta remember that its essentially a low grade muscle relaxer once your body becomes used to it.
How do you handle a situation in which you are doing something illegal responsibly?
Well when the law itself is irresponsible...
that captain America . I'd call the irresponsible thing blindly and blithely following stupid laws just because they happen to be laws. Nothing wrong or irresponsible with growing a pair and making your own decision.
My dad was to be a sherm head when I was growing up. I use to smoke weed for a while, just don't anymore. I drink, but only on occasion, or to hang with girls.
He was one of those "don't do drugs" but did it in front of me guys. pretty funny now that I think about it.
The simple answer is don't get a girl pregnant if you are doing things like that.
I don't have kids and I'm not an idiot who would purposefully bring a kid into this ed up world so I never will, but hypothetically, if I did have kids I'd probably raise them in the mould of Funt's mother. (in relation to marijuana anyway)
Are you just curious or what? I hope it's just curiosity, because it's sickening to me that people actively campaign against and outright hate marijuana. If you don't want to smoke it, fine, but when it comes to marijuana use it's very, very lame and insulting to start judging and meddling in the affairs of other people, when frankly it's something that's none of your ing business to begin with.
Last edited by balli; 09-04-2008 at 05:57 PM.
+1. Well said.
The thing is, as long as you don't live in a vacuum, getting high is irresponsible, or potentially irresponsible, which in my mind is being irresponsible. Things or situations that you can't predict sometimes intersect with your life when you least expect them to. If you're high and mentally impaired you put yourself at a higher risk of not being able to solve these problems.
This doesn't mean I don't smoke weed. I'm just not afraid to admit I'm being impairing my judgement, and usually whenever, wherever you do that you're being irresponsible.
Let me guess, you've never gotten drunk?
Seriously, I hate people that campaign against pot but don't mind alcohol. Hypocritical little s! Alcohol is exponentially worse than marijuana, in every way possible, and yet you don't see drunks getting arrested.
Like Funt said, marijuana isn't the problem, ignorance and irresponsibility are
I'm haven't smoked any pot for a while. But I wouldn't stigmatize it to my kids. I'd inform them on what I think it is...a plant that man used for millenia for a variety of purposes and it can be something that helps or something that is used for the wrong reasons. I would not push it on them as any form of recreational drug(unless the alternative was alcohol). I would never use it on an every day basis but if I did use it every once in a while I wouldn't hide it from them. Why hide it from them? It only makes you seem dishonest. If you don't think your kids should ever do it, then you shouldn't be doing it.
And I'd just let them know that if they were ever thinking about trying it, or any drug to come talk to me about it first. Pot or something I'd want to be there with them the first time they did it. And I'd pay close attention to who their friends were. More than likely I'd want them to hang out with kids that weren't smoking pot, not because of the pot itself, but because of the people you sometimes become involved with in obtaining it. And because a lot of times kids are doing it for the wrong reasons. Not to mention being exposed to other drugs that I would never want my kids to use under any cir stances.
It's a complicated problem but I don't think pot is in and of itself a bad drug...on the contrary, it's been used by man for a long long time. The problem is that it's illegal and is lumped together with a bunch of drugs that are bad drugs and that need to be illegal or difficult to obtain. I definitely don't think kids should be using it at a young age, and they shouldn't be using it to fit in or solve some sort of problem they are having.
A lof of kids start using it when they start looking for friends or acceptance...either because they aren't able to communicate with their parents and don't trust them, or they are looking to not be like their parents for some other reason. I'd definitely go out of my way to make sure I could communicate with my kids and they felt they could come to me as someone they could talk to about anything.
Last edited by whottt; 09-04-2008 at 07:52 PM.
God made Pot, Humans made Beer, who are you going to trust?
wtf? When did I ever say that?
I agree with all that.
Life happens. Problems arise that you never think could or would. When you're high you are at more of a disadvantage to deal with them than if you aren't high, obviously.
No matter how responsible you may think you are, it's not always about that.
Legality and responsibility aren't even remotely related.
Speeding is against the law. I speed fairly often. But, since I only speed when traffic and weather conditions allow me to do so safely, I still consider myself to be a responsible driver. Sex, on the other hand, is perfectly legal between two consenting adults. However, how many people do you know who regularly engage in sex without a condom, or without an emotional connection, or without screening their partner for all possible STDs and STIs?
You didn't say it, but if you do drink, then why the are you going on about the fact your judgment is impaired by pot when alcohol does the worse and is not illegal.
The exact same can be said of alcohol. Do you or do you not get drunk? If you do, you're a hypocrite, plain and simple.Life happens. Problems arise that you never think could or would. When you're high you are at more of a disadvantage to deal with them than if you aren't high, obviously.
No matter how responsible you may think you are, it's not always about that.
By breaking the law you're contributing to the reeason why people in masses break laws: which is, because everyone else does it. If no one broke any laws - if everyone followed them - people would be pressured by society (not the law) to follow the laws.
Unless laws are extreme and unfair (slavery, Nazis etc) laws like speeding, DWI, should be followed by the people not for your sake but for everyone's sake.
Damn, you're an old lady now.
That's all fine and good, but your original argument was that breaking the law is irresponsible and frankly, when the law is stupid or immoral (as it is in regards to weed), the opposite is true.
And besides, of course weed impairs you, (a little bit) but if it really impaired you all that much I doubt I'd be working as an architectural drafter, doing complex trigonometry and math, drafting complex drawing sets, while the entire time, almost every day, high on marijuana. In fact, anecdotally, I work slower, with less quality and have a much worse at ude when I'm not stoned.
I have no problem with being apart of the reason why this country is degenerating, dude.
I won't go into speeding because I don't condone it myself, but pot is harmless. I still, to this day, don't understand why the it is illegal. Think how much dough the gov would make by taxing the out of it... its mind boggling I tell you.
Hush your noise. I'm just now getting okay with saying the th-word out loud.
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