Parents find your pot and freak?

[BlueBlazer]

Iâ??ll never meet you or your kid, so I donâ??t really care how you raise him, but if yâ??all were friends/family of mine, Iâ??d be pretty disturbed about the kid now being entirely misinformed. I donâ??t advocate flipping out or anything close to that, but how about educating them with the truth?

I'm not going to be drawn into a debate over the harmfulness of cannabis. I'll just say the "truth" is subjective. I went into plenty of detail about the harmful effects of the "other" drugs so that when his experience with cannabis was so different than what the establishment told him to expect, he didn't assume all the drugs out there are just as misrepresented.

I began smoking cannabis when I was twelve. By the time I was fourteen, I was a heavy user. Though I had a break of over 20 years for my military career, I'm 52 now, still smoke cannabis, and have had a full and enriching life so far. My cognitive functions and emotional responses were and are fine thank you and I also do not have cancer, or any of the other bugaboo diseases supposedly caused by smoking. My son and I were both on the honor roll at school and graduated near the top of our classes.

The only really harmful thing about cannabis is that it continues to be illegal. I appreciate your concern, but think you may be a victim of anti-cannabis propaganda.