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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another "good girl" here who used pot occasionally. DCs have asked, and we have both admitted to our casual use. Neither of us has done pot in two decades.

One thing to bear in mind is that pot is a lot stronger today than it was in our day.

Also, recent MRI studies have shown regular pot use actually changes teenagers' brain structure - the ratio of white to grey matter, also the size of the hypocampus. Not all of the studies are reliable, for example as a researcher I'm not impressed by the studies that compare kids across very different SES backgrounds. Instead you want to look at the few studies that follow the same kids through adolescence, mapping brain changes at 13 and then in the early 20s. Surprisingly, the brain changes are very evident in teenagers, presumably because it affects them while their brains are still growing, but there is no (as of now) evidence that adults brains change due to regular pot use.

We serve the kids wine at holiday dinners. But DH and I stopped having the occasional glass of wine during the week after DS made a sneering remark about the hypocrisy of a friend's dad, who lectured about pot after his nightly can of beer. Looking forward to when DS goes off to college....[/quote]

Except, however unlikely, you can be federally prosecuted for recreational pot still. Odds of it happening are probably zilch, but that IS a glaring difference between a can of DC Brau microbrew and a small batch organic, vegan edible muffin or some other such yuppie pot product :)[/quote]

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