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[quote=Anonymous]Hi, weed head PP again.  I would recommend finding and reading some old Rolling Stone articles about suburban kids who get caught by the police, and are used as an example, and end up getting the maximum sentence possible and are in jail--one of those really bad, off in the country, county lock-up jails (not the local police station overnight)--for many years.  They do a great job of telling how these kids are incarcerated while their friends are going to college, moving on with their lives etc.  As well as highlighting how their "friends" were no longer their friends once the long arm of the law came into play.

This will be more effective than telling them "drugs are bad and bad for you" since they probably have read all of the NORML propaganda about how weed isnt as bad as tobacco or alcohol, its just because the man is keeping the marijuana/hemp industry down, sometimes there is a twist re: how DuPont lobbyists are involved (so that they can sell their man-made fibers vs people using hemp for things).  Sometimes there is a twist re: drug laws having their roots in the alcohol lobby.  Sometimes the drug laws are attributed to being an easy way to incarcerate minorities.  Regardless, there is a lot of pro-weed propaganda out there that your kid has likely read.

The best way to counter that is by ensuring that while they have read so much about how pot is awesome, it is still illegal, whether it should be or not.  And that breaking the law has consequences much more severe than being grounded.  Like a long-term jail sentence.

Again--this is coming from my personal experience as someone who smoked weed for most of my teens and 20s.[/quote]

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