Quote Originally Posted by Bejagins
the life and times of a teenager, life isen't that bad quitchabitchin
i can't agree; i think being a teenager was a much more troublesome time in my life than my tweenties (and i've had serious illness and a divorce); everyone is different but i sure as hell don't look back on highschool as the "best time of my life"


..........all this makes me think of how i'd raise kids if i have them. i'd without a doubt smoke with them if they were of an age that they wouldn't be harmed by it and could handle the responsibility of keeping it secret; as well as alchohol. it's funny, my mother is norwegian, grew up in norway; i don't know what the drinking age is there but most teenagers will have a glass of wine with dinner with their parents now and again; it's very american to have these solid "puritanical" if you will (though "hypocritical" is better) statutes like "weed is bad", these ABSOLUTE laws in social culture...............which leads me to my last point which is:

recognize that your parents are IGNORANT. they have been told the same things about ganja that everyone in the usa has, it may be difficult to educate them, but you can try, and by all means educate yourself while your at it, there are risks