To think smoking cannabis in the presence of children is bad?

[Limpopobongo]

I'm just wondering if i might be out of step here..

No different to drinking alcohol imo (i do neither)

It’s disgusting. But then I think people that smoke it are disgusting too. In front of children? That’s abuse.

No one should smoke close enough so that children are getting passive smoke, cigarette or joint.

Personally I’m not convinced that cannabis smoke is any worse that cigarette smoke, but it should be a moot point as neither are good.

I couldn't tell you about the health effects but when I was a child and growing up I had through no choice of my own been in the presence of cannabis smokers frequently. Maybe unreasonably so but it left me with a negative feeling that these adults who were responsible for us maybe put getting high before looking after us. One of them crashed the car when he was high taking me to school so maybe it's left me quite biased. Happy to say that this person has quit smoking for 15 years now! Sorry it doesn't answer your questions regarding health issues but for it definitely left me with some long lasting unhappy memories.

Surely even the biggest, greenest fingered, bong blazing pothead knows it's wrong to smoke the stuff around children?

I'm just wondering if i might be out of step here..

Why are you thinking that?

I wouldn't have thought many people think it's a good idea to smoke around children.

I wouldn't have thought many people think it's a good idea to smoke around children

Great,i really felt we were struggling to reach a consensus on this one !

My personal view is that no one should be compelled or otherwise influenced to expose themselves to any substance when they have not consented to such exposure . Further anyone who exposes others to substances which may or are illegal and which may or are injurious to health, where that individual cannot consent, should be guilty of an offence.

Now then getting to the point,, the sun can bring out the best and sometimes the worst in some sections of society. The other day i passed a house where the door to the garden was open, the strong smell of cannabis filled the air and could be smelled from the public footpath as i passed. I could hear and see two young children in the house playing. I could also hear a female effing and blinding.

Pity that there is no one who has responsibility for policing these individuals and saving the children.

No different to drinking alcohol imo

how can you say that, seriously?! Two totally different things. You’re being a GF surely?!

fluffy alcohol causes WAY more personal and societal harm compared with cannabis. Legality doesnt indicate morality or level of harm in this scenario. Not at all

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I think its totally wrong, as the child can't consent to breathing it in. I used to be a big Nigella fan, but I was really put off her when she admitted to smoking cannabis around her kids.

Out of step with law abiding people? No.
With stoners? I suspect you are.

Bit of a blanket statement there.I know plenty of people who smoke dope and would never smoke dope around kids. In fact I don’t think any of them would.

People that smoke weed can often be, shock horror, decent people who care about kids.

My views on cannabis are somewhat coloured by my knowledge of how it is currently impacting on the behaviour and mental health of two people known to my daughter.

1. Her friend's brother is a regular smoker who has developed quite irrational and deranged tendencies towards his sister (both in their 20s). When her parents were on holiday this year, my daughter's friend had to leave home for her own safety as he had threatened to kill her. The police were involved.

1. My daughter's boyfriend's sister has recently spent one month in rehab at a cost of 17,000 pounds to her parents in an attempt to get her off cannabis and the psychosis she had been experiencing.

These are the only two cases I know of cannabis use amongst my acquaintances, so the statistics are fairly worrying as far as I am concerned.

There are a family of 5 children at my school. I have taught 3 of them. They used to come to school wreaking of weed.
It was repeatedly reported to social care but didn’t ‘meet threshold’.
The children constantly complain of headaches, are erratic in their behaviour and seem to be exhibiting the early signs of mental health issues.
It could be entirely coincidental but I personally don’t think so.

The the poster who said it’s the same as drinking, of course it’s not. I might have a glass of wine with Sunday lunch but I’m not also forcing dd to have one. That’s what passive smoking is.

Any smoking around children is unacceptable. I know a fair few people who smoke cannabis, mainly professional educated people, not the stoner stereotype, but they would never ever do it around children. Those that now have children of their own reserve their indulgence for parties etc when the children are not there.

You haven’t really specified what you count as smoking cannabis in the presence of children?

Smoking cannabis openly whilst responsible for and in the general area as children ie. whilst at a kids birthday party or something. - Is an obvious no.

Quiet joint (provided this doesn’t render you any more incapacitated than a glass of wine or two would make you) in the garden whilst the kids are in bed; or having a smoke at somewhere like Glastonbury where there might be kids present but they aren’t in your immediate area. - Probably fine.

(I say this as someone who doesn’t smoke at all, and very rarely drinks)

fluffy alcohol causes WAY more personal and societal harm compared with cannabis. Legality doesnt indicate morality or level of harm in this scenario. Not at all

The question was about smoking it in the presence of children. You know then that they are actually inhaling it , smelling of it.

FFS are you playing dumb? Someone drinking a glass of wine in a room where children are is NOT the same in ANY way at all smoking ANYTHING. If you can’t grasp that there’s something wrong with you.