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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
I genuinely don't know how to respond to a post this terrible.
Other people's inability to impart wisdom to their children is not a reason for me, the adult, to risk arrest, injury or death because I can't get weed from a store. Kids act out. It's what they do. The ones with good parents act out within reason. Be a good parent. Give your kid books instead of an iPad. Take them to museums. Whatever. Just engage them intellectually. I really had no interest in drugs until I was in my early 20s, and based on the poll results I'm not alone.
I don't care about your kids. Because they're YOUR kids. Which means they're YOUR problem. Preparing them to correctly deal with drugs sex and alcohol is part of the job.
Parental unwillingness or inability to perform that job has no bearing on the legality of marijuana. I'm sick of this fear mongering bull####. If weed were on sale tomorrow, the people who don't smoke it would notice nothing different about their lives. At all. We would have $6 billion that could go into our health care system (lmfao that legal weed is going to to negatively offset THAT - as opposed to the billions we spend on weed related care now.)
Pot is illegal for arbitrary and illogical reasons. Those days are ending. Tell your kids.
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I know my post is hard to take by someone who doesn't want to see the other side of the argument.
I agree keeping kids busy doing healthy and constructive things is helpful. However, I think your vision of parenting may be a bit idealistic. Sometimes difficult kids come with the best of parents. And many times peer pressure may lead kids astray. Some of the most gifted and independent kids stop talking to their parents in early adolescence. I seem to recall my own son avoided talking to me at about 12, and never started again until he was 24. It was always, "Don't tell me that Dad, I already know that". And he has turned out as good as one could ever expect from a child. I am so proud of him. I like to think his avoidance of drugs, including pot, probably came from our strong stance against drugs in general from his early age. I have witnessed other parents, who were not so lucky, see their kids negatively affected by pot, particularly in the 1960's when pot began to replace alcohol...and I am not trying to downplay the negative effects of alcohol.
I honestly think we would be making a big mistake by being too liberal with the use of pot in our society. IMO we should proceed extremely carefully and cautiously in our decriminalization of pot. One always has to weigh the good with the bad, before making a decision.