SO I'm a SAHM with a 3 year old who does everything with me throughout the day pretty much. I used to use nap times to go out to the garage and care for my garden, but with the weather warming up it is alot easier to do it while we are outside playing.
We grow many plants indoors this time of year to start our veggie garden and she is a great active helper with that in the house on a daily basis. We don't hide all the other aspects of our plants and usage, we trim while watching tv, and don't smoke cigs but do smoke joints on walks and outside in front of her, we also roll our joints and prepare or herb. But we don't just do this with MJ we also seek out as well as grow other medicinal herbs which we use often in many forms to keep us healthy everyday. We make our own teas tinctures and ointments out of manythings you can find in your yard or spice rack. When she does ask what we are doing we tell her what we are doing with the "spices" as we call them, and when she asks "why?" we answer her just like any other medicinal herb telling her that when Mommie's tummy is upset, and daddy is pulling his hair out because of work we use our spice to make us feel better just like "blank"(another herb that helps with the same thing)
So the other day I had alot of work to do in the "garage" and did the usual run in do something quick then run out. She wanted to help and didn't want to play. So I got her to do easy things like hold stuff and pass it, or find things I needed. Before I knew it she was having a blast and all my transplanting was getting done faster than ever with her watering for my. We had a great time and I got to teach her so much about growing that we don't get to with our garden veggies. She was in my work room not the grow room with the lights and wiring, the work area was safe. I started to think it was wonderful to be able to work with her in there for a few minute each day when we went outside instead of alocating other times for the garden.
Personally I don't see the big deal about it, and feel that if we make it a big deal, she'll grow to learn that it is. Just like nudity and sexual body parts and how everything works. If we teach her about all our plants and not one then she will create an association of her own out of it instead, and it may not be a good one, or she may seek outside sources to learn and share with. She will already be exposed to flowers that mend poison ivy, and Mullein smoked when we have colds and lung congestion, alll of these medicines used in different ways. So even if she does talk about our one of many spices we smoke I'm not sure anybody around here would care knowing we are quite altenative in our "hippy" lifestyle and use many medicinal herb.
However when H came home and learnt of the great time we had had he wasn't very happy, and his only argument was that it was pot. Nothing else. It's like I exposed her to radiation or something to him. It doesn't matter all the other things we do with it or that we grow it right in our garden in the summer out in the open, which she helps in anyways, and rummages through looking for goddies on the other plants.
I don't get it. So what's your take or opinion on it in general. And what about with the fact that we live off the land for everything else including other herbs that are just as if not more potent than marijuana?
Please if you are not already a parent or parental figure to children refrain from putting in your two cents, because parents and non-parents are so different, you really don't know how it is until you are one yourself. And please keep in mind we aren't really pressured by the fact that it is illegal to a point here, we are more consciouse of the stereotyping that goes with it, and how people blindly believe what the law tells them to
