Just found pot in DD's room and flushed it down the toilet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alcohol kills more brain cells than cannabis.

which is why both are illegal for teens, and should be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reality check. Pot in ypur child's room is no okay. And BTW, neither is a bottle of vodka. Parent your kid FFS.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your DD is smoking in the house on a Sunday afternoon it sounds like it's more than a social thing and maybe more of a serious issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: And in this case, it could mess with her father's security clearance and therefore his livelihood. What is so wrong with waiting until you are legal to do something?

How, exactly, would it mess with her father's security clearance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Sex =\= illegal (statutory rape aside)
Pot == illegal almost everywhere (DC aside)

So you base your entire moral compass on the law? Wow. I'd be a little more concerned about little Jenny getting knocked up than smoking some dope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've smoked a good deal of pot in my life. One thing that stuck out to me, OP, is that you could smell it in her room from the hallway. It was probably very strong weed. I'd be concerned. Weed today is so much stronger than the hippie shit we smoked from the '60s and into the '90s. In my opinion, it's a lot more dangerous. When I was in high school, I smoked shitty weed out in the woods or in someone's basement - I'd be concerned about my kid running around DC high on this shit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yep. I read somewhere recently that kids these days are more likely to smoke pot than cigarettes.

Good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
your an idiot if you think it is "safer" than alcohol. They both affect the brain in a detrimintal way. And your attitude of "held on for myself" is why your child is using it.

It is. Why don't you pull your head out of your ass and think about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pot can kill. Not alone in a room just overdosing, but the more acceptable it becomes, the more people will drive while high. Sam Ellis was drunk and high on marijuana when he killed his two friends last summer.

Again,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:[
But long term affects aren't good:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001143.htm

WOW, government info on weed from when war on drugs hysteria was about to peak. Real trustworthy. Just like the doctors who used to tell patients smoking cigarettes was good for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pot can kill. Not alone in a room just overdosing, but the more acceptable it becomes, the more people will drive while high. Sam Ellis was drunk and high on marijuana when he killed his two friends last summer.

Key words: drunk *and* high.

Key word: drunk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have small kids, but I work with teens as a psychiatrist and have some experience in adolescent rehab centers. My problem with pot isn't that it causes people to do dangerous things, but just that it causes apathy. Kids who are smoking don't really care about doing well in school, playing sports, relationships with friends and parents. I can usually tell within twenty minutes of meeting a kid in my clinic if they are a regular pot smoker. They just don't care about stuff that most adolescents get all in a tizzy about.
And besides the impact on future career prospects if a kid tanks high school, there are developmental implications as well. Kids are supposed to get all depressed when they break up with their first boyfriend or go through any number of high school dramas. If you choose not to deal with these things and just get high instead, you are going to be far behind your peers if/when you do decide to cope with normal ups and downs of daily life.
It also puts kids at higher risk for developing psychosis as they get older.
So, no, finding your daughter smoking pot in her room on a Sunday afternoon isn't as bad as finding her passed out drunk in your front yard on Saturday night, but it is something to take seriously.

Okay, but those are the kids who present at your clinic, who have other issues besides just smoking pot. You're not seeing the AP students who are athletes, volunteers, artists, holding part-time jobs--those are the kids I smoked pot with in HS, and we weren't at your rehab clinic. We were doing homework and applying to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
omg, and successfully too... it is like this whole pot thing isn't as big a deal as the propaganda lead me to believe

Right? Unreal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pot can kill. Not alone in a room just overdosing, but the more acceptable it becomes, the more people will drive while high. Sam Ellis was drunk and high on marijuana when he killed his two friends last summer.

not true.. studies are proving that pot doesn't impair driving the way alcohol and other drugs do

Link?

Experience

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You have set the standard with your attitude toward pot. You say it is safer than alcohol. How so? Pot can be laced with all sorts of chemicals and has a detrimental effect on memory. As long as you send these messages, you will have a hard time managing your DD's behavior and drug/alcohol use.

Keep it up with the hysterics. I've never smoked chemical laced pot in my life. What's next? She'll take LSD and jump off a building? Get real.