parents here who are anti weed and psychedelics, how old are you?

[Anonymous]

I wasn’t anti-weed until my teen started using it. Today’s weed is not our 90s weed.

[Anonymous]

I am 46 and don't smoke cigarettes, despite living my childhood in country where many people around me smoked, including my parents, don't drink, despite many people around me drinking, and don't do marijuana in any form, psychedelics or anything other than caffeine... which is also a legal addictive stimulant. No one I know well takes marijuana or psychedelics. Everyone I know drinks coffee or tea.

I'm a research scientist, my husband is a doctor, and we are fully aware of the medical risks of these substances, as well as the benefits. For everything except caffeine, the benefits do not outweigh the disadvantages.

If you have PTSD or intractable pain that cannot be managed any other way, then that would be good reason to take substances medicinally, with the approval of a doctor. It's ENTIRELY DIFFERENT from making an uninformed, risky, non-medically approved decision on your own, to take such substances. Notably, for marijuana and psychedelics, sourcing is risky. The substances of today are not the same as those of yesteryear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:40. I think legalizing weed has been so harmful. There’s a difference between a pot gummy and inflicting the smell of a joint on a whole group. It’s become uncool to criticize it, but just a few years ago, it was considered disgusting to smoke cigarettes in common areas, around kids, etc. Now we’re back to square one.

+1 Also 40. Same sentiment plus I really dislike that we now have people driving under the influence without a means to test/prosecute that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:40. I think legalizing weed has been so harmful. There’s a difference between a pot gummy and inflicting the smell of a joint on a whole group. It’s become uncool to criticize it, but just a few years ago, it was considered disgusting to smoke cigarettes in common areas, around kids, etc. Now we’re back to square one.

+1 Also 40. Same sentiment plus I really dislike that we now have people driving under the influence without a means to test/prosecute that.

53 and agree with all of this. I have an older brother in his sixties that uses weed all the time to medicate his depression or whatever — I don’t think it’s great although it’s probably better than his just drinking himself into cirrhosis. If you have a mental health problem and have determined that this is the least bad option to treat your condition, that’s fine. But let’s not normalize this as something that’s just generally okay to do. FWIW, I also think that people who drink a bottle of wine a day are not any better.

[Anonymous]

60

[Anonymous]

46. I'm anti anything that'll interfere with getting a security clearance or pilot certificate, both of which still consider pot illegal even if it's been legalized by state law. Moderate alcohol use is ok but not out of control alcohol abuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get help for your issues and addiction.

+2000

[Anonymous]

I’m 46. Pot just wasn’t that big of a thing in the Northeast when I was younger if you weren’t part of a neo-hippie subculture which I was decidedly not. But i had tried it a few times (didn’t enjoy), and was a partier in general (alcohol, cigarettes, ecstasy, etc) until my mid 20s. Then my career took off and I had too much to lose by getting messed up. I still drank socially but at this point I barely even do that.

I don’t judge people who smoke weed or use psychedelics—I take 10 mg of lexapro daily and assume they’re looking to medicate the same issues I am! But I have noticed a correlation with lack of success/drive/ambition and heavy weed users.

[Anonymous]

I’m 45. I don’t drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, smoke pot, or use any recreational drugs. I never have. I think some of these things have medicinal purposes, in which case they can be used under the supervision of a doctor. But there can be very harmful effects from their recreational use, and I hope my kids don’t use them.

[Anonymous]

OP here, thanks for the feedback. Looks like nobody who disagrees with it is my age.

I am not addicted. Psilocybin is not an addictive drug, and I am able to control the amount of cannabis I ingest, often times going weeks without thinking about it then picking it up again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the feedback. Looks like nobody who disagrees with it is my age.

I am not addicted. Psilocybin is not an addictive drug, and I am able to control the amount of cannabis I ingest, often times going weeks without thinking about it then picking it up again.

It’d about your kids ages. Get back to me when your 15yo is smoking.

[Anonymous]

I am 48 and I don't do any drugs and never drink more than one glass of alcohol because I don't like feeling out of control. OP appears to like that feeling, so that is our difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the feedback. Looks like nobody who disagrees with it is my age.

I am not addicted. Psilocybin is not an addictive drug, and I am able to control the amount of cannabis I ingest, often times going weeks without thinking about it then picking it up again.

It’d about your kids ages. Get back to me when your 15yo is smoking.

This. Too many friends dealing with their kids having major issues is enough to make one reassess. Maybe people your age are more breezy about it because your kids are younger.

I smoked plenty of weed and tried LSD in college (more than 30 years ago), but it has zero appeal to me now. I also don't drink to excess the way I did when I was in my 20s. I tried weed again at a retreat thing about seven years ago, and it was so unbelievably strong--not at all like what I'd smoked in college--that I thought I was losing my mind, so no thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m 58. I tried both many, many moons ago. You do you, but I have no interest in doing high school drugs anymore.

I was thinking college, but yeah, I feel for these families who have to deal with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the feedback. Looks like nobody who disagrees with it is my age.

I am not addicted. Psilocybin is not an addictive drug, and I am able to control the amount of cannabis I ingest, often times going weeks without thinking about it then picking it up again.

Nobody who commented is your age. Don't delude yourself, OP. I suspect that most people your age, especially if they're parents, are not ingesting like you. You must be part of a very specific subculture for you to know many people who take those substances.