Moms who love weed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I smoked weed in college (along with most of America) and occasionally afterwards. Gave it up about 8 years ago, had two sons, and decided to take it back up again six months ago. Once every week or two, I step outside and have a smoke after the kids are in bed (though I'm not opposed to doing it while they're awake). I've successfully tended to their occasional needs. I'm a bit high, not blitzed.

I'm done pretending there's anything wrong with it. Done. All my friends can have their two glasses of wine, their cigarettes, their cosmos...I can have my weed. And no, I don't care that it's illegal. I refuse to go along with the hysteria any longer. Everyone with half a brain knows it's safer than alcohol or cigarettes. Far less violence, sickness, death, and addiction related to marijuana than the LEGAL drugs (and alcohol IS a drug). This is my choice.

And yes, I'm sure my kids will figure it out someday. I'm sure your kids will see you drinking wine, yes? I'll explain exactly what I explained here: it's relatively safe, it's safer than alcohol, you should use it occasionally, safely, not drive, and ENJOY. Stay away from the 15 beers you'll be tempted to drink at a fraternity party and get high instead. And yes, I deeply hope my sons will choose not to drink or smoke cigarettes. I hope they will make smart choices; not what the law has decided is smart for them. Because when my cousin David was murdered by a drunk driver, he had come from a legal bar handing out legal drugs. But I can't get stoned in my house and eat too many cheetos. And I just can't make sense of that.

VERY well put, and I agree with you 1000%. Let's be friends.

[Anonymous]

You only forgot one small detail. Your friend having a glass of wine will never have her children taken away from her because of the wine. Now, if the authorities find out about your habits you will have your children removed from your home. Is it really worth it????

I just can't make sense of THAT!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I smoked weed in college (along with most of America) and occasionally afterwards. Gave it up about 8 years ago, had two sons, and decided to take it back up again six months ago. Once every week or two, I step outside and have a smoke after the kids are in bed (though I'm not opposed to doing it while they're awake). I've successfully tended to their occasional needs. I'm a bit high, not blitzed.

I'm done pretending there's anything wrong with it. Done. All my friends can have their two glasses of wine, their cigarettes, their cosmos...I can have my weed. And no, I don't care that it's illegal. I refuse to go along with the hysteria any longer. Everyone with half a brain knows it's safer than alcohol or cigarettes. Far less violence, sickness, death, and addiction related to marijuana than the LEGAL drugs (and alcohol IS a drug). This is my choice.

And yes, I'm sure my kids will figure it out someday. I'm sure your kids will see you drinking wine, yes? I'll explain exactly what I explained here: it's relatively safe, it's safer than alcohol, you should use it occasionally, safely, not drive, and ENJOY. Stay away from the 15 beers you'll be tempted to drink at a fraternity party and get high instead. And yes, I deeply hope my sons will choose not to drink or smoke cigarettes. I hope they will make smart choices; not what the law has decided is smart for them. Because when my cousin David was murdered by a drunk driver, he had come from a legal bar handing out legal drugs. But I can't get stoned in my house and eat too many cheetos. And I just can't make sense of that.

VERY well put, and I agree with you 1000%. Let's be friends.

[Anonymous]

You only forgot one small detail. Your friend having a glass of wine will never have her children taken away from her because of the wine. Now, if the authorities find out about your habits you will have your children removed from your home. Is it really worth it????

I just can't make sense of THAT!

please point to an example where a parent has lost their child because of a marijuana possession charge. which, by the way, is a MISDEMEANOR offense in DC, MD and VA. sign the ticket, pay the fine.

i'm waiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You only forgot one small detail. Your friend having a glass of wine will never have her children taken away from her because of the wine. Now, if the authorities find out about your habits you will have your children removed from your home. Is it really worth it????

I just can't make sense of THAT!

please point to an example where a parent has lost their child because of a marijuana possession charge. which, by the way, is a MISDEMEANOR offense in DC, MD and VA. sign the ticket, pay the fine.

i'm waiting.

CPS has taken children for much lesser than that. Remember the case of a walmart employer who called the cops because of pictures of girls taking a bath together? the girls were taken away for long enough to traumatized them while the parents tried to explain that those were family pictures and not child porn.

Good luck explaining the judge that you're not an addict.

Sorry, but if someone thinks it's OK to break the law to get high and they think it's more important than their children I doubt anything an anonymous poster say here will change their mind.

I'm just very sorry for the kids who are in danger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. I don't think this occasional use of weed is any worse than all of the wine drinking that is occuring by the suburban moms that I know. The answer to every little frustration in these women's lives is to open a bottle of wine, even during the morning hours, even before PTA events, etc.

2. I would love to try some of Sara's baked goods...and get baked.

Drinking wine is legal, smoking weed is illegal, and, therein, lies the difference. You are teaching your children to obey only the laws you like. You are also teaching your children that taking illegal drugs is fun, nothing wrong with it, just ma and pa being cool. Drug dealers are scum and will sell to a 6 yr. old. You are an unfit parent.

First of all, you don't know me, so get off your damn high horse. I didn't say that I do this. What I've done in my life involving drugs, legal or illegal, and what I teach my children to do are two different things. I would never do anything illegal with them in the house or tell them that it is ok to do so.

For all of you who point out that alcohol is legal, yes it is...but did YOU ever drink when you were underage? ILLEGAL! Did you ever drive after drinking? ILLEGAL! You can't tell me that someone eating a pot brownie in their house and remaining at home is more of a menace to society than the moms and dads who knock back a few drinks at a friend's house, load up the kids in the car, and drive home, risking not only their family's life, but the lives of other people on the road.

FWIW, I am guilty of breaking Virginia's laws against premarital sex, oral sex, and cohabitation by unmarried persons, so if that makes me an unfit parent, so be it. I'll bet I'm not the only one here guilty of those things.

[Anonymous]

Growing up two of my very successful uncles and their wives made a point of continuing to smoke marijuana together as a weekly thing. So far, 4 of their 7 kids have become the biggest pot-heads. All 4 of them are struggling so much with this. So, I have seen a connection between parental use and their teenagers' misuse.

I am all for the legalization of pot, however I do not want my kids' lives to be ruined by it because they do as I do and not as I say. And, let's face it, we all do not want our 13-year-olds out trying to score pot, or our 16-year-olds getting stoned instead of studying for the SATs.

[Anonymous]

LEGALIZE IT! DONT CRITICIZE IT!

[Anonymous]

Sure, if pot were legal, I would smoke it from time to time, just like I have a glass of wine from time to time. But since it isn't, smoking it is not important enough to me to risk breaking the law. It just isn't worth the trouble it could potentially cause. And yes, I felt differently about that when I was 18, but I've grown up and have a lot more going on in my life and more people that I am responsible for.

[Anonymous]

09:50 wanna be friends????

[Anonymous]

Yes, I drank when I was underage, and yes it was ILLEGAL and yes I was a CHILD. PP your argument is CHILDISH. You have a very tenuous grip on adulthood.

[Anonymous]

Since pot is illegal, it's grown secretly by criminals and protected by criminals. It's transported and sold by criminals. Criminals who use children and pull them into the world of drugs. Criminals who kill people. A lot of the deadly crime in Mexico is due to drug gangs who are reliant on demand from the US to fuel their criminal enterprise. So that weed you smoke my have blood on it. It's sold as a "victimless" crime because the retail end is disconnected from the web of crime and death that supports it.

[Anonymous]

10:20 again. And yes I was also a pothead for a while when I was a CHILD. Grow up!! Or deal with it in an adult manner. Get elected, fight to make it legal then smoke away!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since pot is illegal, it's grown secretly by criminals and protected by criminals. It's transported and sold by criminals. Criminals who use children and pull them into the world of drugs. Criminals who kill people. A lot of the deadly crime in Mexico is due to drug gangs who are reliant on demand from the US to fuel their criminal enterprise. So that weed you smoke my have blood on it. It's sold as a "victimless" crime because the retail end is disconnected from the web of crime and death that supports it.

Thank you. 10:20 again. My thoughts exactly, I'm just to lazy to type it in. Maybe the pot residue from 30 years ago.

[Anonymous]

You only forgot one small detail. Your friend having a glass of wine will never have her children taken away from her because of the wine. Now, if the authorities find out about your habits you will have your children removed from your home. Is it really worth it????

I just can't make sense of THAT!



please point to an example where a parent has lost their child because of a marijuana possession charge. which, by the way, is a MISDEMEANOR offense in DC, MD and VA. sign the ticket, pay the fine.

i'm waiting.



CPS has taken children for much lesser than that. Remember the case of a walmart employer who called the cops because of pictures of girls taking a bath together? the girls were taken away for long enough to traumatized them while the parents tried to explain that those were family pictures and not child porn.

Good luck explaining the judge that you're not an addict.

Sorry, but if someone thinks it's OK to break the law to get high and they think it's more important than their children I doubt anything an anonymous poster say here will change their mind.

I'm just very sorry for the kids who are in danger.

again, can you point to a case where a kid has been taken away because of a parent's bust for simple marijuana possession (no other factors)?? no? then go clutch your pearls somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

10:29, grow up. Excuses, excuses.