| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 3/31/2007 4:06:53 AM | I lost my family because of the stigma of pot. Been using since before my daughter was born, (mom too) and since she got pregnant she stopped. I would usually toke a few after work with a cigarette and then go in and do the family thing for the rest of the night. She thought I was being selfish so she took my child and left. (really left they live over 2000 mi. away) People have to realise that pot is totally different than booze or other narcotics. Especially for chronic users who are used to pot so it affects them differently. I am an auto mechanic, which means that people trust their lives to my judgement. The key with pot use is good judgement.
There's nothing wrong with pot and it should be legal. | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 3/31/2007 8:25:54 PM | This whole thread started of in regards to pot vs booze. An someone's opinion that pot has less effect on the body.... How so.... a joint has carncigines equal to that of 40 cigerettes... Red Wine has been proven to ward off cancer.. Sure Pots helpful once you get the chronic pain..... but do you really want it?
People here we are mostly adults... and as adults should be making judgements on how we are going to be living our lives. I might be pious.... More than likely am.... but I want what is best for my son... and mind alteration is not that.... I have the same stance on scientology and cults in general which are many of the "religions" which welcome and encourage pot use.
Being of sound judgement and able to make solid decisions that he can be proud of later is my thing now.... whether he is with me at the time or not..... and yes I am a WAY cheaper drunk now than before.
If you think that you are able to raise your kids and look them in the eyes and tell them what and why you do it and the fact that how you live your life has nothing to do with them..... my door will always be open.... my son's friends will always be able to come over what ever the time... the same way my friends we welcome when their parents had different priorities.
By the way... sorry about your mom... but so is my grandma and I still would like to think that she would be ok with my choices...can you say the same | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 3/31/2007 8:43:24 PM | Boy,thank goodness I missed the heated debate...debating about the "legality" of pot!? O.K...Hey,if I steal something and don't get caught stealing it,does it make me "taking it" illegal?...not in some of the poster's book on this thread. Also..If it isn't illegal for me to crap on your sidewalk,does that make it right?...that is the logic in these posts. I mean there has to be a time in a person's life (hopefully) when they just have to say,"I am too old to be smoking a "dubie" or sitting in the bars getting wasted." Each person has to decided when that time has come for them. I personally didn't have my kids til I was older,so my time is now...to be an example for my kids...there is enough bad in the world that I don't need to show them any more "bad" examples...just my 2 pennies. | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 4/2/2007 9:06:35 PM | ok so where do i begine?
Well lets see i live in Canada and it is not illgal to smoke pot you are allowed to have up to an oz on you as long as it is not broken down for sale.
Point number two: Booze is a poison made by man pot is a herb that grows naturaly.
Point number three: Booze kills your brain cells and your liver, pot only puts your brain cells to sleep up to 7 hours (proven fact).
Point number four: How meny times have you heard of a parent that has bet the shit out of his kid after they smoked a joint vs a parent that has put thier kid in the hospital because they where drunk?
Point number five: How meny poeple out there have lost family and loved ones to drunk drivers? vs some one who has smoked a joint?
So if you can answer my last few questions please do......
Now im not saying that drinking or drugs are good or bad but in my opinion i think that you should drink in small amounts a if you smoke pot do it when your kids are not with you or after they go to bed the same should go for the booze to. | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 4/7/2007 7:48:37 PM | How come all of the post for pot are written by people who appear to be well... a few beans short in some areas.....
Booze is just as natural as pot.... fermentation is a natural process humans have just mastered it... kinds the same way Jim Bob has in his basement.
Haven't heard of anyone beating their kids.... lighting their house on fire while on pot.... Yup.
Point five is just asinine...... People get in accidents on pot too... don't think it doesn't happen.
Get Firefox.. then it will spell check for you on screen.... typos make the point for others not for yourself | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 4/8/2007 6:13:12 PM |
my oldest daughter's father was actually a drug dealer. (i know, not the best choice).. he would justify smoking pot to me by saying that his mom and dad had smoked it in front of him all the time and that it didn't hurt him at all. but hey, he ended up dropping out of school, selling drugs, and currently in jail, but no, it did nothing to him....... lol....... it's a bad idea to smoke weed in front of your kid. it just tells them that it's ok to do that once they are older. don't do things in front of your kid, unless you are prepared to see them do it in front of you in the future..........
agreed. monkey see, monkey do! | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/12/2007 2:21:19 PM | Drugs and alcohol have no real upside.
The human body was never built to have these toxins put into it.
They are toxins, poisons, they are just enough poison in a small enough dose to make you feel a certain way without killing you by changing the chemical ballance in the brain.
We do USE them to create a certain feeling or change a feeling.
What ever was the cause of that feeling is still there when you're done.
Relaxed, take the edge off, happy.
If you cannot either achieve these feelings or live through the counter side, fear, gloomy, a little frazzled wound up, with out a drug or alcohol, which IS a drug, then there is something you need to take a look at.
It usually means there's something wrong if you experience these negative feelings and thought patterns.
They are thier to tell you there's something up.
Using is the easy way out, although not really as they compound the problem and stop you from ever fixing it, and nothing changes 'till something changes.
Anything else is the egos way of justifying and rationalising the using so we don't have to go through the discomfort of the change.
Also known as denial.
Would you throw a few spoons of sugar in the gas tank of your new car on a regular basis?
After all, it won't hurt it THAT much.
At least not for now.
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/12/2007 5:06:08 PM | If a single parent smokes pot they should have their kids taken from them, if you care about your children you will not take recreational drugs!!! | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/13/2007 12:53:05 AM | Does it matter whether the parent is a single parent or a couple? Set the example for your children. What will it be?
Do as I say or do as I do.
Your choice. | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/13/2007 5:42:43 PM |
If a single parent smokes pot they should have their kids taken from them, if you care about your children you will not take recreational drugs!!!
Not saying I agree or disagree, just wondering about the distinction between "single" and "married" parents. | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/13/2007 6:16:43 PM |
I would usually toke a few after work with a cigarette and then go in and do the family thing for the rest of the night. She thought I was being selfish so she took my child and left. (really left they live over 2000 mi. away) People have to realise that pot is totally different than booze or other narcotics. Especially for chronic users who are used to pot so it affects them differently. I am an auto mechanic, which means that people trust their lives to my judgement. The key with pot use is good judgement.
Are you my ex husband in disguise? This is exactly what happend within my marriage. I left my ex because of his addiction use to that and alcohol. I too, left thousands of miles, but mine was 3,000 mi. away.
I do NOT agree with your statement of pot being different from any other drug. Maybe in how it affects and stimulates your body, but, obviously if you lost your marriage over it, I would say your problem was your addiction to it. Whether it be booze or pot. I agree with your ex wife that you were being selfish. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but, as a former wife of an abuser of drugs, when one gets high and chooses that lifestyle instead of the family, there is a problem. I am sure she had talked to you about this issue before she left.
There's nothing wrong with pot and it should be legal.[
How can you honestly say there is nothing wrong with pot? YOU lost your family over it. I would say that is a pretty big price to pay for this drug, wouldnt you?
Your reasons for wanting it legal are selfish. Tell me why you think it should be legal? And dont use the "for medicinal use purpose" Dont ride the coattails for the truely sick. | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/13/2007 8:53:38 PM | | I agree with you Disney any parent who does this and spends time with their kids while high needs to have the kids taken away in my opinion!!!! | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/14/2007 5:26:53 AM |
I do agree with some of you people. Pot is illegal but that fact of the matter is that it affects the body and mind alot less then booze.
Which is why I don't smoke pot OR drink around my kids. I'm a single parent, I have to be RESPONSIBLE at all times. | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/14/2007 2:50:08 PM | ok i think you all need to concentrate on your own lives and stop bashing people for smoking pot cause seriously its gettin old
i did pot a few yrs ago but gave it up when i fell pregnant, i dont drink around my child but i do smoke cigarettes, i know lots of parents single and not that smoke pot, never around the children and i tell ya the ratio of bad non pothead parents and bad pot head parentts doesnt fall in favour of the non pot head parents | |
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Posted: 8/14/2007 8:55:37 PM | Having one's children taken from them and thrown into the foster system for smoking a joint? Don't you think that's a bit harsh? Hell, that's more punishment to the kid than the parent.
The medicinal argument is valid. It's valid because even if I'm not sick, I could become sick, and I'd like to have all options available. If marijuana is what can ease my pain, I think that's far better than putting some laboratory produced synthetic material into my body, no? It's better than still being in pain because those drugs aren't working for me anyway, no? I don't have diabetes but that doesn't mean I still can't donate to their foundation or participate in events they put on does it? | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/14/2007 9:29:47 PM | While i realize many smoke weed, we must remember it is against the law. Losing your kids becauase of a drug habit is the consequence and it makes sense to me. No i do not think this is harsh.
Why take the chance? Do your kids not mean more to you? If your choosing the pot that is not the right priority imo. | |
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Posted: 8/15/2007 8:46:48 AM | ^^^
There are so many things that are against the law that we do everyday and we don't lose our kids over those laws, so why this one? I guess it's good that the law doesn't see it the same way because one is VERY unlikely to lose their children over smoking a joint. It's a misdemeanor offense, yet some of these posts make it sound like it's worse than murder. | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/15/2007 12:37:00 PM | ^^^well i do not know what other laws are being broken but in this thread the law being broken is smoking pot.
It may be a misdemeanor the first time. Not the point in my view.
Keep doing it and get caught = the charges increase.
Why risk your children for a stupid addiction? | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/15/2007 2:12:33 PM | | I care to disagree with one losing their child over smoking pot. A person I know had her two daughters put in foster care when a claim that she had smoked pot was filed to Child Protective Services. An administrator showed up to her house and when she found pot in her possesion the kids were taken. She wasn't allowed to get her children back until she comleted some kind of drug class and tested clean for 3 months. | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/15/2007 2:25:27 PM | ^^^^Sweet i like to read stories like this. She should have to take a drug class and be tested. If she gets caught again, it will even be harder for her to get her kids back.
What is more important your child or pot? Seems like a no brainer, but not the case for some dope heads. | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/18/2007 6:23:38 AM | Hi
I am a person that smokes pot and i am not going to deny it my daughter is not around when i do but she knows what it is and that she is not allowed to touch it . If you dont let your kids know what things are and you do it behind there back then that is the respect that you will get in return when they get older think people..... If they know what it is and what it does then chances are they wont try it but hide it and they will hide it from you and rebel when you find out .... think would you like to be open and care about your kids or disregard them and hide everything from them .... I know what i will be choosing | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/18/2007 6:28:04 AM | A person I know had her two daughters put in foster care when a claim that she had smoked pot was filed to Child Protective Services. An administrator showed up to her house and when she found pot in her possesion the kids were taken. She wasn't allowed to get her children back until she comleted some kind of drug class and tested clean for 3 months.
This is just a sign they they cant do there job there is a lot more bad parents out there then the parents that smoke pot focus on the worst parents first | |
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Posted: 8/18/2007 7:35:04 AM | DisneyMom, there's a LOT of reasons pot should be legal. You say all drugs are bad, well I hope you don't drink caffeine. Because that's a drug. Just one our government has arbitrarily decided should be legal.
The original reason pot was made illegal was because our government was having a hard time finding a way to tax it and because of the religious right pushing for it. The same reasons prohibition happened. However that didn't last because its a lot easier to grow your own pot than to make your own beer, so its a lot easier to tax alchohol. Simple as that.
Marijuana is treated like the antichrist in our society but look at the facts:
Marijuana is not known for causing aggression as alchohol does. In fact, it generally calms you down, relaxes you.
Marijuana does not effect your reflexes or reaction time so while I don't support driving under the influenc e of anything, driving after smoking marijuana is much less harmful than doing so after drinking, the odds of an accident aren't significantly higher than normal.
Marijuana is not addictive. When I say this, I mean physically addictive. There are some personalities that are easily addicted to anything. Such a person could be addicted to barbeque sauce for all that it matters. Butt marijuana in itself is not an addictive item. Unlike cigarettes and alchohol which have addictive qualities in them.
I've never smoked pot myself, no interest in doing so, just as I don't smoke cigarettes. A joint is about as harmful to the lungs as 8-10 cigarettes. However someone who smokes pot usually doesn't chain smoke it, they have A joint. Whereas most cigarette smokers smoke a pack or two a day. So really, pot effects your lungs less in the long run.
However it should be legal because in this country, you aren't supposed to need a reason to make things legal, you're supposed to have a reason to make them illegal. Looking at similar substances such as alchohol and cigarettes which are legal, there's no precedent or reason for marijuana to be illegal. The biggest arguement I hear against its legalization is that it would increase the rates of kids smoking it. However in countries where its been legalized, the exact opposite has happened, the rate of teens smoking it has gone down. If kids want to get it, they're going to get it, same as alchohol. But now while its illegal, they can go to any dealer they know. If you legalize it, the dealers go away and it starts getting sold in stores. Dealers aren't going to waste their time with something you can get at a convenience store. So then the kids get carded when they go to buy it, they have a harder time getting it. Besides which, the main reason kids do drugs is the taboo factor. You make it legal and its a lot less taboo.
I've also heard the arguement, well do you want some doctor operating on you while high or do you want your cab driver to be high? That's inane. If it were legal, it'd be under a similar set of rules as alchohol. AKA, you can't work on it, you can't drive on it, those things are illegal still. Could people do them? Sure, they could do them now too. Its legal status doesn't change that.
As for parents smoking around their kids, it shouldn't happen for the same reasons that parents shouldn't drink around the kids. Plus because the smoke can give those around them a contact buzz. But parents should be able to smoke it away from their kids just as they should be able to drink away from their kids. | |
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| single parents smoking pot
Posted: 8/18/2007 11:17:29 AM | "DisneyMom, there's a lot of reasons pot should be legal"
I didnt think pot being legal was the discussion?
The thread is single parents who smoke pot. I like how many here twist and do not stay on topic. Single parents who smoke pot should not be parents. You are a selfish parent if you smoke weed around your kids. | |
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