The people I knew in HS who smoked pot didn't even bother with college. They had no ambition, although which direction the causality flowed, I couldn't say. I suspect they were self medicating.

If you have a family history of mental illness, pot can be a trigger.

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Anonymous wrote:Pot is that much of a nuisance to you that you would risk your child not attending college? Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

Oh, please.

OP's child is doing drugs. At that point, it's whatever it takes to keep him alive. Because yes, he will progress to heavier drugs, he'll steal, hurt people, maybe prostitute himself to finance his addiction, and end up dead.

He can go to college later if he gets clean. He can't go to college if he's dead.

I'm the one you are responding to. I've smoked pot as a teen, and have never done any of those things that you listed. I've never even tried any other drug. Overreact much!!

Yah, but pot use tends to get you around people who use other recreational drugs so you wind up with more of an opportunity and exposure to heavier stuff. Much more so than drinking at parties does. Usually even at parties drug use is done in a more private area - they don't want to share and they don't necessarily want others to know what they're up to.

Did you see this in an anti-drug documentary somewhere. It's just not the case.

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I'm pretty sure the drama-poster has had zero experience with pot or drugs.

+100. I can believe how naive and sheltered so many posters are. I know many many people who used pot and heavier things in their 20s. They never ended up stealing or on the street prostituting themselves, and they are now very successful professionals who have moved on from the party phase in their lives. If you do want your kid to end up on the street and be an unsuccessful loser, then i would recommend not supporting their education.