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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are many good reasons not to smoke pot:
the illegality, supporting Mexican drug cartels that have basically destroyed Mexico, the fact that drug dealers use elementary school kids as runners, the addiction potential, the fact that people who smoke pot get behind the wheels of cars, the recent study on IQ effects of pot use, the link between pot use and mental illness etc.

The thing that I think would be most resonant for the Type A parents of DC, though, is the fact that pot often saps people's ambition. Sure, there are productive people who use it, but on average, pot users are couch surfers.  The stoners at my high school tended to work at the pizza parlor.  When I was in my second year of a PhD program, I went to that pizza parlor, and there they still were.  [b]Honest work, sure but it won't pay a Fairfax County mortgage[/b].[/quote]

^ all true, but you're going to tell a stoner teenager that? Don't smoke pot then youy can pay your Fairfax mortgage someday? I'm not even a stoner and that sounds ridiculous to me.[/quote]

No, certainly that won't resonate for the average kid.  I'm offering this argument because I find the complacency of the parents to be puzzling. [/quote]

Looking through old pot threads on here because we've given up and at a loss. The grades thing doesn't work either because DC's grades and test scores haven't slipped and are pretty top notch. How am I going to use even the FFX mortgage argument when DC will get into a much better school/college than either place I or DH went to?

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