Quote Originally Posted by Polaris
I tried it in my youth, but didn't like the way it made me feel, and haven't touched it since.

A couple of my friends smoke it recreationally. I feel that as long as it's used sensibly and responsibly then it's no worse than drinking socially.

In fact in some ways it's better than drinking socially because you never see a bunch of stoned people rampaging around the streets after closing time causing trouble.

I suppose my main concern that it's illegal and I don't want my son to have criminal record (which he managed to escape 'this' time) and be constanly in trouble with the law.
Well yeah, i guess if you "allowed" him, this could put you in shit too. But if he's responible enough and you explain to him very carefully not to let ANYONE know your cool with him smoking it, and that you only want him smoking on the weekends and to be VERY carefull, then i think he would be able to do that, and if he refuses to do this then i would just say that how im giving him the oppurtunity to do something on his own and be responsible for what hes doing, and that your giving him a chance to take responibilty and act adult about this whole thing. But yeah, dont come down hard on his ass like Del said, this will just push you and your son further away from each other, and he'll still be doing these things you don't want him doing (or doing them even more just to spite you). So yeah, my advice is to have a nice adult conversation with him about all this, and remember to remind him that your only doing this for his own good. But yeah, asking him to only toke on the weedends should help his grades improve.