Doing drugs with parents?

[Pulp501]

It amazes me how many people I know who's parents let them smoke pot and drink alcohol, and even do it with them. It seems really irresponsible. When kids are taught to do those things at a young enough age, we just think it is okay to do all the time. Not to mention that those things are so much worse for us when we are still growing than an adult. The people I know who's parents let them do that are all low income families and I don't think that is a coincidence.

[Human]

I'm middle class and my parents let me drink alcohol and go to parties because they know I'm responsible

[Elysium]

Some people don't think or don't realize it's as big a deal as it's often made out to be. I think for some things, as long as a child is doing it safely, the parents wouldn't have much of an issue.

[JamesSuperBoy]

I am sure my Dad would be nuts if he found any of us smoking cigs never mind pot but I am allowed a taste of lager or wine - my older bros a bit more and that is good.

There is wine and beer in the house - we would never touch it unless Dad said we could.

Income wise maybe you just dont know any rich folks -

[drmindfreak]

It's not like he lets me, but he does know about it and there isnt much he can't do to change it so i bet he just accepts it. But i dont think he would do them with me.
He's rich btw.

[AlexOnToast]

My dad smokes grass but he's go mental if i started doing it. He's paranoid about my health as it is.

[Zenos]

It amazes me how many people I know who's parents let them smoke pot and drink alcohol, and even do it with them. It seems really irresponsible. When kids are taught to do those things at a young enough age, we just think it is okay to do all the time. Not to mention that those things are so much worse for us when we are still growing than an adult. The people I know who's parents let them do that are all low income families and I don't think that is a coincidence.

yeh and also watch how those kids be have as well.

That's the problem with parents these days they want to be their childrens friends not their parents!

yes a parent can be their childs friend but they have to be a parent first and foremost which means teaching them right from wrong,instilling morals and values in them and having control over the child with in reasonable limits and it means SETTING A PROPER EXAMPLE and being a good influence!

[Pulp501]

yeh and also watch how those kids be have as well.

That's the problem with parents these days they want to be their childrens friends not their parents!

yes a parent can be their childs friend but they have to be a parent first and foremost which means teaching them right from wrong,instilling morals and values in them and having control over the child with in reasonable limits and it means SETTING A PROPER EXAMPLE and being a good influence!

Well, today most people don't care about drugs, most people think pot is okay, but I still don't buy that. The people I know that smoke a lot of pot aren't people I would want to be like. Maybe there are a lot of pot smokers that are great people, maybe it's just my city.

[Zenos]

Well, today most people don't care about drugs, most people think pot is okay, but I still don't buy that. The people I know that smoke a lot of pot aren't people I would want to be like. Maybe there are a lot of pot smokers that are great people, maybe it's just my city.


I hear ya I hear ya

[KendraKnox]

My parents know I drink, but they wouldn't do it with me.

[carmen97]

my parents are against any sort of drug or alcohol and they do not let me drink at all i would be scared to see what my parents would do to me if they caught me

[JollyToes]

My mom is a doctor and would flip the f out if she knew some of the stuff I have/still do.

[Dylan389]

My parents gave up on trying to stop me from smoking pot. They just go with it and don't mind it. I keep my grades up, keep a steady job, and i'm not dumb about it. If you show you're mature about it. Everything is okay about it.

[Etcetera]

i think that's really sad and not responsible at all of the parents. i don't care of they are sitting there with the kid it's not responsible at all. especially in countries like the USA where it's illegal and that's basically teaching their child that oh, it's okay to break the law. basically setting them up to be a law breaker as an adult.

[Lune]

i think that's really sad and not responsible at all of the parents. i don't care of they are sitting there with the kid it's not responsible at all. especially in countries like the USA where it's illegal and that's basically teaching their child that oh, it's okay to break the law. basically setting them up to be a law breaker as an adult.

I hope that no one in your family download music or movies. Because you know it's illegal, and if they do that they show you that it's okay to break the law. You could become a law breaker.

In my opinion, parents shouldn't smoke in front of their kids to avoid influencing them about pot. (or drink, for the same reason)
But if later they discover that their kids are smoking/driking, if the kids are responsible, have good grades, if they know what they risk, why it's bad, if it doesn't hurt anyone... I think parents should just accept it.
There's an age when kids are mature enough to know what they can do or not.

If I have kids, I would prefer to know if they smoke/drink or not. I'd rather be there to take care of them, even if they're drunk or high.
Of course I'll explain to them that it's not good, that they shouldn't do that, etc. But then, I won't try to force them to quit, as long as they are responsible.

(sorry for my english!)

[Karkat]

Er, I always drank tiny amounts with my family growing up, but it was a cultural thing. My parents are against drug use entirely, and have actually threatened to disown me for being an alcoholic. (Which happened much, much later)

[CharlieHorse]

weed is not harmful the way that other drugs are.
alcohol is bad in large quantities.

what's the problem again?

[randomuser666]

mom or any family member of mine wouldn't let me because it's illegal

[Dalcourt]

My Dad is doing a lot of drugs, not just smoking pot also real hard stuff...I have never smoked pot with him or anything. I just don't do it but I guess he and his friends would mind if I did. I was offered some pot by some of my Dad's friends a few times already, but never took it. I don't really do a lot of smoking or drinking alcohol - just a lil bit now and then - cuz I see what it does to my Dad and did to my Mom...

[phuckphace]

I think it would be super fun to smoke pot with your parents. My parents are lame though, so it will never happen sadly.

[Ffdp16]

My dad would let my brothers hit the pookie by the time they were 13. I got lucky I just drank and smoked weed at that age. I've done coke but not with my dad. Never done meth though.

[jayce_xt]

Everyone seems to be getting into this mentality that "drugs are bad". People say that, yes. People also used to say the world was flat. People also used to say that black people weren't really people. People used to say lots of stuff. And people continue to say stupid stuff.

I'm practically a straight-A student. I was raised being told my entire life that drugs were bad. I was told they made people stupid. I was told they made people crazy. I was told lots about how "evil" they were. And for the first 14 years of my life, I believed it. Heart and soul. I used to think about how "stupid" other people were for doing drugs. How "sad" it was. How glad I was that I wasn't "like them". In short, I was a condescending asshole when it came to people who used drugs. And if it weren't for a certain US History teacher I had, I might still have been that closed-minded. I might still have been a total jerk to people who didn't deserve it.

We were talking about the Prohibition. Long story short, it's essentially the same thing we've got going on with "other drugs": some people in America thought alcohol was bad, that it made people stupid, crazy, etc., and that it needed to be outlawed. As a result, people were arrested for drinking beer/wine. Anyone who made alcohol was arrested. Gangs emerged, trying to dominate the black market alcohol business through extreme violence. People thought banning alcohol would reduce crime. Instead, crime was higher than ever before.

Sound familiar?

Eventually, people realized alcohol wasn't to blame at all, and everything went back to normal. The way my history teacher talked about it really stuck out in my mind. I thought, "Wait... isn't that the exact same thing going on with drugs? The way I think about them, talk about them... this is just what I was told. But sometimes, I'm actually mean and aggressive to people who use drugs because they 'deserve it'. Is this really the way I should be?"

So I decided to run an experiment. I was nervous. Scared. But I decided that I would try at least a few illegal drugs to see what they did to me. I decided I would hang out with people who did drugs to see what they were really like. I've never gotten in trouble with the law. Ever. But I had to know. So I did just that. I tried some drugs. I hung out with people who did them. And you know what I found out? They're exactly like us. And the drugs? Even science journals that my school has access to say the same thing: alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs out there, health-wise. The only ones that run a higher risk of killing you are cocaine and methamphetamine.

But not one article I found said anything about having proof that drug make people more violent. And me? I'm still an honors student. I still don't talk much to people. I still am kind of a nerd. I haven't changed one bit since trying drugs, except for one thing.

I now know that I was wrong about my thoughts on drugs before. And some of the things I said/did as a result of that closed-mindedness, I cannot forgive myself for.

EDIT: Please keep in mind that I'm not telling anyone to do drugs. All I'm saying is that a lot of things I was told about drugs growing up was wrong. I know this now from looking stuff up and from experiencing things myself. So the next time you talk to someone who does drugs, don't be mean to them just because they do drugs. That just makes you a bully.

[Menzis]

An old friend of mine smokes weed with his dad too

[Cognizant]

Personally I think it's a great idea. It would show what level of responsibility they are at and how they behave when high or drunk. In my opinion it'd be better to get high in front of your parents rather than getting wasted at a party and finding out they're not responsible enough to know when to stop/decide to drive a car.

Of course, i think about it that way because I plan on being a bit loose on my children with pot. I don't want them drinking though.