Parents

[Cheery Cherry]

Have you told your kids that you smoke? If so, how did you tell them? What was their reaction? I know in school, cops/teachers teach kids about illegal drugs and how dangerous all illegal drugs are. Some kids are so damn brainwashed, it's not even funny. So I'd like to know what exactly do you tell your kids?

[smoke it]

How old are your kids?

[birdgirl73]

My son's 20. He knows our attitude that pot ought to be legal for medical use everywhere and that, recreationally, it's not anywhere near as harmful as alcohol (except from a legal perspective). He's had careful explanations of those facts since he began being interested in medicines as a junior high student. He has always known we both smoked or tried it back in college and has known the rule was he could try it then, too.

He never had to think much further than that till my sister came to stay at our house last year while she fought cancer. Earlier this past summer with her last, futile round of chemo, she needed every ounce of help she could get with the nausea and appetite, and she and her docs (and we, her caretakers) decided it couldn't hurt her to try grass. So I came online here looking for information and, with luck, assistance. I told him honestly that's what we were doing and asked him not to share that with his pals. And he didn't.

And so when she smoked her medicinal weed, our son knew that was happening. He knew that I was about to leave my job and that I planned to try it again, too, before I returned to school. (His dad did not partake.) Our son even saw me fairly well baked one evening and enjoyed observing how giggly and silly I became.

So that was an overly long way of saying I told him everything. And that we'd worked hard to counteract the official anti-grass brainwashing from early on.

[suhl]

try telling your kids the truth that is probably the best bet

[Sabron]

Being somone a teenage i whould just talk to them..Ask them if they smoke or have tryed it.. then tell them you smoke.. tell them that if they want to try they should do it with you so you know they arnt going to smoke laced shit..and you know thier reactions

[SkatePopwar]

i cant wait to tell my kids i blaze :D i hope i can spare them the brainwashing

[Reefer Rogue]

i cant wait to tell my kids i blaze :D i hope i can spare them the brainwashing

Same, It's so many years away in the future but I still can't wait.

[gr8misadventures]

My son is 10 and my daughter is 3...don't think I need to say anything yet

[smoke it]

nope. wait till their 15 or 16. esecially now. im 16 and when i was 10, i was put through the DARE program and had a period for about 6 months where i was incredibly anti-drug. they brainwashed me, but then two years later, i gave in and got high. when they turn 15 or 16, ask them about smokin and tell them that your okay with it. if there still anti-drugs, dont tell them. and if they smoke to, pull out a blunt and spark it up

[Cheery Cherry]

Both my kids are in their early teens. I think I may see what they say about pot being used for medical purpose. I agree with Smoke It about if they're anti-drugs, I don't think it would be wise for me to tell them.

[birdgirl73]

That's such an influential age. I'm not at all sure I'd have told mine in the early teens had he not begun asking very specific questions. They were having the anti-drug education in his school when he was that age. It really would have been safer almost to simply let him go with that flow for a couple more years believing 100% of the propaganda.

[Cheery Cherry]

Yes, they haven't asked me anything about drugs yet. Thanks for your reply, Birdgirl and everyone else :). I just worry sometimes, that they are taught that all drugs will kill you or get you behind bars or that you'll amount to nothing.

[fikusroot]

Stress moderation and responsibilityin their lives in other things, not just drugs. Then slowly work that into the idea that drugs are not harmful if used responsively. All you can do right now is try to teach your children well. Their father's hell did slowly go by and feed them on your dreams. The one they pick's the one you'll know.

[birdgirl73]

It's worrisome, I know. I was the same way. But when my guy was that age, he wasn't exactly discriminating in the way he understood subtleties or shades of info. I'm not sure he could have completely fathomed the differences. That's why I'd have happily left him in the dark for a another few years. By the time he was 16 or 17, he understood degrees of meaning a little better. (We're still working on that at 20.)

Young teenage years are such a funny, squirrelly age. I miss those days!

[OniEhtRedrum781]

Being somone a teenage i whould just talk to them..Ask them if they smoke or have tryed it.. then tell them you smoke.. tell them that if they want to try they should do it with you so you know they arnt going to smoke laced shit..and you know thier reactions

If you did that, you'd be the coolest parent in the world...