Talking to your 15 year old about smoking weed

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How do you start? When do you bring the subject up? What is your loose message?

Find a first person account of the psychosis that some people suffer. I’ve read a few harrowing accounts.

I wouldn't have a problem with my kids smoking weed - I don't think it's particularly harmful compared to alcohol, but I'd rather they waited til they were 18 and they know that.

My 15 year old boy isn't interested. A few of his friends smoke though.

Print off long term effects.
Suggest in ten years time he won't want to be that sort of person...

Jiggles - I don't really have a problem with weed either (although I do think 15 is too young) but it's the other forms of cannabis that kids won't be scared of (cos it's "just weed") that follow on that I'm really worried about.

I didn't get along with cannabis and stopped smoking it long before my peers. It made me feel panicky and paranoid and very jittery, didn't have a mellowing effect on me at all. So I'm worried if my 15 year old starts using he won't have the guts to walk away from it if it doesn't suit him, that he won't be strong enough and mature enough as I was as a 25 year old woman.

I rather think you need to broach drugs long before 15. We never had a big chat, more when the subject came up from time to time we discussed things. They knew from much younger about weed.

I told my DS how I had met a man whose DS had been unlucky enough to develop psychosis wth heavy weed use and was too scared to leave the house. He had been in the house for months DS was also heavily in to sport so think that may have been a factor. A few of the kids at his school got expelled for dealing.

Find a first person account of the psychosis that some people suffer. I’ve read a few harrowing accounts.

And there’s millions of people who use it who don’t develop psychosis

The way I went about it with my DC was explained about the strengths and the risks, yes there are mental health risks but it doesn’t just jump to psychosis and also explained about how addiction works ‘the minute you make an excuse for why you are smoking it or the minute you justify getting it when you know you shouldn’t you’re addicted or on your way to getting there but also explain that street dealers are in it for the money and nothing else

Will you all show your kids stories of alcoholics too and tell them not to ever drink