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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:09 PM Original message |
Can we have a discussion about kids and POT...Marijuana? Would you let your child smoke pot? |
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sailor65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. Not just no, |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Double hell - NO!!!!! |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
2. I have always worried about them |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
3. Why? Would you rather them shoot smack? |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. what does that have to do w/ smoking pot? |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. It's a gateway drug. |
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Maine-ah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 09:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
68. if anything is a gateway drug it's cigs. |
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Mojambo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. No. It affects everyone differently. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. Are you me? I swear... you are me! |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
6. I wouldn't be upset about the pot, I'd be upset about the kid lying to me. |
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Rick Myers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
7. Even today's 'generic' pot is more powerful... |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
9. Yes, I would let them |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
10. I allowed my sons to smoke at home. |
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Devlzown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:23 PM Response to Original message |
12. I think 14 is too young. |
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ileus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
13. Not no but hell no. |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
14. keep the communication open |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
15. Tell him no and then explain why |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
17. We told our kids they should wait till they were 18 |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:40 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. That's what I told him. When he's 18 he's free to smoke it. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:56 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. I told my kids that if they smoked pot or drank under age at MY house |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:09 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. I got stopped for speeding one night and I had a bag of pot in my purse |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 10:36 PM Response to Reply #33 |
74. This is also for proud -2-be-lib and Marrah G. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
18. Wow, the Nancy Reagan type moralists are sure out on this thread |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
19. I think you handled it pretty well... except for wasting money on a drug test. |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:48 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. Yeah...I'm guilt ridden over the drug test too. It's still sitting in my closet. |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:01 PM Response to Reply #26 |
49. If you didn't open it up and have the receipt, it's very likely that you could return it |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:14 PM Response to Reply #49 |
53. I did open it. I just didn't use it because he confessed first. n/t |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
20. I am for the complete legalisation of marijuana |
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BlackVelvet04 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
22. I would think that giving permission |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
23. Would you allow your child to drink alcohol? Smoke ciggarettes? |
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nonconformist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
24. No, I think 14 is far too young |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
25. No, I wouldn't let my kid smoke pot, any more than I would have |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
28. triple hell yes |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
29. My three kids smoked pot |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
30. drugs can disable.... |
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haele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
31. Pot smoking - well, either they will or they won't - but the lying about the money, now... |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:30 PM Response to Reply #31 |
37. Yep...that money thing got him a lecture. That won't be happening anymore. |
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bunkerbuster1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
32. Nope. but then, I didn't smoke until I was 18. |
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helderheid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
34. I was once offered pot at 14 (had smoked it before) and was glad when a friend stopped me ... |
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helderheid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 10:29 PM Response to Reply #34 |
73. send 'em to holland |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
35. I've been smoking pot with my son |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
36. In my family, my brothers smoked pot and it lead to harder drugs & a sh*tload of problems |
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Ahpook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
38. We allowed it.. |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
39. I honestly don't know what to tell you. I first smoked pot in college at age 18 in 1967. |
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Ahpook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:43 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Good advice:) |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:58 PM Response to Reply #39 |
47. Yes. That is very good advice. I'll try that tact with him the next time it comes up...which is |
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Ahpook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:52 PM Response to Reply #47 |
65. It's a healer |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 09:03 PM Response to Reply #65 |
69. Oh yeah as would mine! |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
41. I don't know about pot, but... |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:00 PM Response to Reply #41 |
48. Did you read the post? It was HIS money, not mine. He gets an allowance. |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:10 PM Response to Reply #48 |
51. I see. |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
42. Definitely not. Both of them have asthma. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
43. Kids lie and kids on drugs lie alot more. |
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WindRavenX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
44. yes IF |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
45. I wish I had some of the pot I smoked in 1970. |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:08 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. Yep. I smoked some pretty wicked stuff back then too! |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:22 PM Response to Reply #50 |
57. I agree |
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some guy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
46. If I had a child (or children) |
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leftchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
52. I believe the 'stronger pot now than then' line is BS! |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:22 PM Response to Reply #52 |
58. I concur. I remember when a single joint could get a whole roomful of folks stoned on their asses. |
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leftchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:33 PM Response to Reply #58 |
62. two words I have embedded in my brain from 30 years ago...... |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 09:46 PM Response to Reply #62 |
71. Waaaaahhhh! I WANT some!!!! |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
54. No. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
55. No |
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Bjorn Against (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
56. I don't want to tell you how to be a parent... |
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Scout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
59. i don't think teenagers or younger should smoke it... |
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wildbilln864 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
60. There is nothing wrong with smoking pot... |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
61. No - not because of the intrinsic evil of the substance, but because of the Sturmtruppen. -nt |
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TheFriendlyAnarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
63. I'm smoking pot now. |
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marlakay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
64. Time for a very long talk |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
66. No. And I would be sure they knew what sad, pitiful, massively unhealthy LOSERS |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 09:52 PM Response to Reply #66 |
72. Pot is NOT a "toxin"! It's an herb with many life-enhancing and healing properties. |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 11:26 PM Response to Reply #66 |
76. It's so bad for you that it's killed millions. |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
67. No way. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
70. Its still illegal. |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
75. i love where i live... |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
77. My daughter is 13... we've been discussing drugs since she was 11 |
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