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[quote=Anonymous][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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You might consider an entirely new strategy.  I say this as a parent who hates the idea of my teen smoking pot and who would never give permission.  I don't think you give permission but you do set ground rules, knowing that ultimately you can't stop this.  Ground rules have to do with safety -- no driving while high or getting into the car of someone who is high, no getting high in a place like school grounds or public property where he could get in trouble with the law, no getting high at home, and no letting grades slip.  In other words, he's going to have to exercise his own judgment and if that means getting high in his friend's basement during a sleepover, you aren't going to stop him.  But you do expect him to be responsible in every other way and if he isn't, you will ground him, and then do it.  I am suggesting this because its become a power struggle and you can't win and because if he does follow all these rules, he will probably be fine.[/quote]

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