to ask if you take drugs (legal or not) even if you have kids?

[dextersdarkpassenger]

I'm not talking about caffeine or drugs which are considered (mostly) benign but either illegal or prescription drugs. Do you think it has helped your parenting (or helped through difficult aspects of parenthood)? Just curious as I often wonder if I am alone as this seems quite taboo but I think drugs have really helped me deal with being depressed and being a good(ish) mum and cope with things that I don't think I'd handle too well otherwise (I smoke cannabis, not around my kids).

Now I have DS I wouldn't take anything. The risk-reward balance has changed.

Tbh I even get my judgypants on when couple friends of mine both get a bit drunk while their kids are asleep (DH and I don't drink much these days either, a couple of beers/small glasses of wine max).

Quite a few friends of mine who never took drugs just drank incredibly heavily instead. I've never seen people so pissed. It made those on half an E and a spliff seem very moderate!

I don't take drugs (not worth the risk and never had the urge to, anyway) and seldom drink, only because I'm not that into drinking alcohol. No reason, just hardly ever want to.

I don't - not particularly through moral reasons - mainly because I have the sneaking suspicion that the one-in-a-million-bad-reaction would be me!

I would never, I smoke yes, but in the garden, always outside even when other children are round. I will smoke in my own bedroom. I will not smoke weed and although DP does it with his mates, never in the house or around children. Now that me and my sister are adults, my dad will go outside to the garden, smoke a doob then come back in and go to bed, he can't sleep any other way. I think its dumb. I used to smoke dope but I hate the stuff, made my depression, anxiety and paranoia a lot worse.

Did lots of coke in my 20s and will be on prescription drugs for the rest of my life. No more illegal drugs as I'm 36 weeks pregnant and it's no longer just about me, if anything happened, my DC would suffer so never again!

Prescription drugs improve parenting. Why else would a GP or any other doctor prescribe something that would harm a family. I feel its stupid to compare a mum being prescribed anti depressants or anti-pychotics to someone who smokes weed.

The cannabis of the seventies and eighties that we all enjoyed- gentle, friendly and easy to metabolise bears no relation to the stuff grown now. Wouldn't touch that shit.

I've had a handful of joints since my son was born, 15 months ago.

Always when I don't have to care for him, he is at his Dad's for example.

It's very sporadic, i.e. not every time I'm not with him!