letting your parents know

i smoke weed for fun and because it helps out my back. i have problems with compression in my back and when i smoke, it releases sum of the compression and helps my back loosen up. its the only thing that works besides taking pain killer which the doctor prescribed me :D but i dont wanna be hooked on those for the rest of my life. i'm only 15! now my problem is that my parents dont know i smoke.

my question how can i tell them that i smoke and not get in a lot of trouble. i know they would still be mad even if i told them it was fo my back. they would just think thats an excuse. or should i just not even tell them at all?

i've learned one thing already, everyone gets caught at sum point. everyone!

Well they'd like it much better if you told them than if they had to catch you. And in the worst case scenario, they absolutely disapprove and tell you to stop immediately--in which case you just go back to doing it in secret.

not EVERYONE, i have some friends that have been smoking for 3 years without their parents suspecting at all...if ui know they will get mad dont tell em...just be as cautious as possible...ull prolly get caught tho lol

Yeah if you really dont wanna get caught just act like you did when you first started smoking in your home. I remember what I used to do--sneak around so quiet I couldn't even hear myself (sometimes I took my shirt off cause I thought they'd hear the rustling, haha) and use a page from the phone book to roll a bone cause I was so paranoid about keeping papers in the house. Then I'd go down to the basement with a walkie talkie by the stairs so I could hear if they were coming, I'd smoke it as fast as possible, waste about a half hour of my high being paranoid..... those were the days.

Yeah parents will usually find out if your smoking. I wouldnt know what to tell you,but if you feel you need to tell,then do so..anyways happy smoking

my parents have never caught me smoking,, they know i do and they've tried sooooo hard but they never will,, lol

Sup juggalo!

Try to keep it a secret, but if it comes down to it, its better if you tell them than getting arrested for it or having them find it in your pocket when putting your cloths in the wash.

Although quite impossible for my situation ATM, your best bet would be to sit down with your mom or whoever, and tell her exactly how you feel. tell her you'd rather have her know up front that your doing it, instead of hiding it and sneaking around doing it behind her back. Mothers love to hear that shit. Also, convince them doing it in your room away from police will keep you out of trouble, and that having to sneak around means more of a chance being caught.

I wouldn't tell them. Just say no to drama. hahah I smoked w/o my parents knowing for 4.5 years before I moved out. They didn't find out untill I was in half way through my seinor year in college.

Your pretty young, they might get pissed, but if you ever get caught bust out the back pain shit, and hopefully they'll be understanding. You sound like a canidate for Medical MJ when your 18.

When i was caught 1st time, (cuz my dad said my room smelled like smoked) they didn't do much and just kept sayin shit like "why does it smell like smoke in here?" and i had to keep comin up with lame excuses like "I burnt sum paper cuz my friend said the flame went green" (or something like that).
Then eventually my mum and dad came bustin into my room 1 sunday morning and woke me up and accused me of smoking and said i didn't look "all there". But nevermind, and then my dad found my pipe in my cupboard (searching through :mad:) and came back in my room later demanding i give him my pipe, but i said no and hid it under my bed (I was planning on sneaking out of my window in the middle of the night and throwing it somewhere, so he couldn't get it off me) and it cost £8 so i thought "fuck that idea" and kept it and just kept refusing to give it to him

Then up until about 2/3 months ago i would just get the odd "your room smells like something has been burning again". so i just ignored the remarks and carried on smokin', but this time in my downstairs toilet (bathroom for US ;) ) and it's only like 5x3ft with a toilet, sink and extraction fan, so i just do it in there now, and i know my room smells like weed (as even i can smell it, but luckily my mum is ill so she can't smell anything :cool: ) and they haven't mentioned it since....... The End

So in conclusion i would say, don't tell them in case you get in trouble about it, and what they don't know doesn't hurt 'em (or something along those lines)

If you know they're going to disapprove of it, you'll just regret telling them. Keep it a secret if you think you can reasonably get away with it. Not everyone gets caught; you only get caught when you're not careful enough (trust me, I've been there). Do everything you think is necessary to ensure that you don't get caught. Smoke outside, smoke at night, smoke through a spoof, smoke out the window, whatever. Just don't smoke when there's any possibility whatsoever of your parents finding out that you're smoking, and make sure you don't act obviously stoned around them afterwards, and you should be okay.

Well, let's see-- would your parents rather have you tripping out on hydrocodone for your back, or smokin weed for your back? If they have a brain between them, they'll choose the herb. Be careful, though--since weed is illegal, it has a bad reputation, especially to authority figures.

If they're worried about your health, get a vaporizer or eat it. At that point, they'd have to be complete slaves to propaganda to think that prescription opiates are a better idea.

hey ermitonto, i thought you lived in buffalo. did you move? anyways, i think your best bet is ( if your parents are not assholes) tell them you started smoking pot and you will not let it shrew up whatever you have going now. Just don't smoke in the house or act like smoking pot is not a big deal.

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hey ermitonto, i thought you lived in buffalo. did you move?

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Yeah, I came way up here near Canada but it's just until the fall semester begins.

say you heard from a friend with a similar problem that it helps with the pain and explain about the painkillers, and say you already have friends who do it so could try easily. you never know, they might even give you money for it!

They might also demand to know who these friends are so they can call their parents.

I told the parents when I was 14, only been positive results for me.

my dad doesnt care(he does it too), but my mom was pretty upset. i was able to get away with it for so long until recently she started getting very suspicious. shit went down this last weekend, and she finally knows for sure. and we neevr even fought about that either. she doesnt like it, but she isnt trying to make me quit either.

my parents kept telling me to stop smoking so i said "ok" and never have, and also, they obviously know i smoke it cuz of them telling me to stop, and smelling it, and finding my pipe. The funny thing is, about 3 or 4 times now they've said to me "now tell me truthfully and look me in the eyes, do you smoke marijuana?" and every time I just said "no!" and once said "of course not, i wouldn't dream of it!" (i was pretty blazed lol) and after i kept saying i didn't smoke it they just walked off looking disappointed that they have nothing on me, so it kinda worked out, now i just smoke whenever and don't even think about getting caught

heres the deal with me, never been officially busted, but when i first started, like 2 weeks after my first blaze i found my dads stash, and took a little bit. the next time i went to take some, a couple days later, there was a note that said
patrick- find your own weed

he never said anything to me, and i never said anything to him, but now he knows i do it and i know he does it. its a little weird sometimes, like on saturday, i came home, tottally baked, and he came up from the basement, tottally baked, and we tallked about star wars for like 2 hours. it was hilarious

yeah, you probably shouldn't tell them. my parents kind of suspected i smoked and so i admitted it to them, and then followed up with a "but i'm trying to quit" (i wasn't really but i thought it would get them off my back). my dad was like, "well i could ground you but that won't help and you're trying to quit anyway" but my mom flipped out and searched my room, and found my new bowl, ashes, and an emptie baggie that smelled heavily of pot. long story short, they even started drug testing me for awhile. then again, my parents are very conservative christians who believe in family values and think that mtv is the channel of satan, so it kind of depends on your parents... if they're laid back and open minded you have a much better chance of gaining their acceptance

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...i came home, tottally baked, and he came up from the basement, tottally baked, and we tallked about star wars for like 2 hours. it was hilarious

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Dude... that is way cool. I wish my pops and I had a relationship like that! He don't smoke... but I know if he did, we would probably talk about some shit like that for hours. haha

hahaha, ive never acctually gotten high with my dad, i think thatd be just too weird. at least now. maybe when im a bit older though.

I know I got grounded and my mom took my smoke for herself when I was 15. LOL So I'd probably not say anything.

Dude, getting high with your parents is awesome. :)

I told my mom about smoking weed i think 2 days ago, and shes more worried than mad, actually shes not mad at all. If u wanna tell ur parents, make it 100% clear that u dont have a drug problem or need to go into a program or some shit like that. W/e u do, dont let them find out on their own, cuz if they r like anti-drug people they will probably put u in therapy or go to a family councelor.

A tip- Don't get arreseted for possession, it doesn't help them understand when you turn up in the back of a police car.