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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyplace has drug addicts. The idea that drug addicts=black innercity kids is false. I'm not trying to cause anyone to panic, but nowadays drugs are everywhere, and your kid WILL have access to them.

This is why we need to sit down with our kids and have a frank discussion on drugs. Experimenting with weed is really normal in high schools, as is some harder drugs (Molly, etc). We, as parents, need to teach our kids that there is a line between experimentation and addiction. You don't experiment with meth, or heroin, or prescription drugs. Draw that line in the sand.[/quote]

[b]I don't think you can draw the line. Nancy Reagan was right. Just say no to drugs. 
Don't look the other way with pot[/b].[/quote]

I agree, and I'm not a fan of Reagan or the war on drugs.  But I do think that the best possible way to deal with the issue is to attach a huge social stigma to trying drugs in the first place, and that includes pot.

The social stigma has really reduced tobacco use rates.  I don't understand why we're headed in one direction with tobacco and yet there's more and more social acceptance of pot.  I don't really have an issue with legalization of pot.  But I do have an issue with this constant drum beat that experimentation with pot is "normal."  That's not a good message to send.  It's one thing for drugs to be prescribed for pain management, and doctors need to be very careful about that.  But I think that a better line to draw in the sand for young people is not to experiment with any drugs.  They're not necessary.

And frankly, I don't know what OP is talking about with the line between experimentation and addiction.  Most people don't know their propensity for addiction until they experiment, and then it's too late.  How about not even take that risk?

[b]I think it sends a very mixed message when you tell your teen one drug is acceptable to experiment with but another is not.  When I was young, I had friends whose parents had the idea that if they gave their kids a safe space to drink, then they wouldn't experiment with other things.  But those kids are the kids who experimented with everything!  [/b]

My parents drilled the idea in my mind that experimenting with any drug opened up the door for lots of trouble, because honestly, you don't know how you will react.  I never experimented with pot.  I didn't drink as a teen.  I didn't do any of that stuff, not because my parents were strict, but because they were pretty clear that that is a road you don't want to go down.  We were also blue collar, and my parents made it pretty clear that I already had an uphill battle trying to find a way to pay for college, et cetera, that it just wasn't worth it to try drugs.  My parents also didn't give me much in the way of money.  I had to get a part-time job when I was 15.  If I wanted trendy clothes, I had to buy them myself.  As a teen, it was a stretch just affording the clothes I wanted to wear and running shoes (I ran on the CC team). 
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