Though I agree that marijuana is wrongly portrayed in anti-drug messages and kids are lied to...you don't want to risk introducing it to him too young.

I think that a kid gets curious about sex way before he/she ever is confronted with marijuana. Sex obviously is a bigger and separate issue.

I agree with an above post that said it was better for the children to be ignorant until they reach a certain age.

If you use for medical reasons, thats good and fine. I have no problem with a 10 year old saying "my daddy uses marijuana for his condition".

But like we were taking about strange kids offering MJ then meth....yes other kids have an impact, but a parent has 10x the influence.

I remember an anti drug discussion in HS class one time about marijuana. I had only used it once or twice and wasn't really that impressed with it. A few guys in my class who were smokers weren't taking any of that 'MJ is a bad drug' bullshit. However, they are probably the dumbest guys I'll ever meet. I chose to stay away from MJ.

Now I am in college nearing a degree and I smoke like there is no tomorrow. I *never* refuse a hit. I stay until the blunt is finished even if I have to finish it myself. My point is, I think it is better for kids to be ignorant about it as long as possible.....for their own sake. I would probably cry if my child started using regularly before he even got a high school diploma.

I have more respect for a 16 year old boring no common sense bookworm that will probably never get any ass until he buys it than a 16 year old 'intelligent' full of common sense kid that can't graduate cause he is stoned all the time.

Like i said, marijuana shouldn't be introduced, it should be discovered. Discovered on your own terms just like life, sex, music, religion, and god.