Consuming a tiny amount of homemade edibles to manage pain does not make me a drug user
Actually it DOES!
You are both clearly deep in denial, if he’s smoking as much as you say (which you haven’t at any point denied) he’s addicted.
You need to stop. It’s illegal, it’s harmful and it’s antisocial.
@Taraohara I think your post at 0821 is spot on and I too am VERY sceptical about where op and her dp are getting their ILLEGAL drugs from.
They need to grow up and stop exposing their dc to potential dangers of this via contact with dealers and/or as they grow older and notice parents are taking and it will be normalise at a VERY young age for them and they are even more vulnerable than other dc as they have sen.
I’ve lost relatives & friends to drugs, NOBODY starts off a complete addict barely existing. They ALL started off with cannabis and mixed with people who saw that as “no big deal” which led to them mixing with people who thought harder drugs were “no big deal” either.
And they don’t necessarily die quickly of a massive od either - it can be a very slow and painful death, it can be from associated things like hepatitis and other diseases spread by how they use their drugs, it can be from complications like malnutrition, chest infections because immune system compromised, organ failure etc.
Or as in one case I know of doing. Something stupid due to drug induced psychosis which can and does happen on cannabis and did in this case - they picked a fight with a moving truck! Not suicidal but psychotically thinking they were invincible and trying to prove it to the person they were with at the time who has NEVER recovered from that horrific experience.
I’ve also seen it as a nurse, drug use is NOT glamorous it’s really NOT cool and it harms families in so so many ways.
I hope op gets a clue and gets that clue across to dp too and they both stop.
If not I hope they get caught because I dread to think of the effect on this family in the future.
What could prove interesting is if neighbours report ops dp possibly thinking he’s growing/selling as well as using and police search the property and find ops drugs which they’re likely to be more critical of and that could result in arrests and ss referrals.
My brothers a police officer, it’s not that the police don’t care about cannabis it’s that they don’t have the resources to deal with it because it’s become so prevalent!
They certainly still target dealers and growers.
His best friend is in charge of the safe driving initiative for the county, I have them both on Twitter there’s a lot of police accounts on there and every day there’s at least 2 drivers caught driving under the influence. If you didn’t know op they now have testing kits for all the most used drugs to be able to test drivers at the roadside I think from saliva.
If caught that’s major problems with your driving access and if you need a police check for work you’re scuppered too.
I’ve taught him that smoking is yucky and grim and that he doesn’t want to copy his dad. He agrees.
children of smokers are twice as likely to smoke anyway - regardless of what you try and teach them. I’m the eldest of 3 children of 2 heavy smokers (tobacco legal but still unhealthy) and I’m the only complete non smoker. Bro smoked as a teen/early 20’s, sister still smokes only stopped while pregnant.
All 3 of us thought it disgusting as children and begged parents to stop on many occasions.
Plus what if there were an emergency? Which I think may be more likely if your children have sen (other sen parents can let me know if I’m right or not on this) if he’s smoking every night he’s not best placed to deal, he certainly shouldn’t be driving them anywhere. And if you’ve also been microdosing that night can either of you really assess risk/deal with an emergency?
Maybe that’s how you’ll get caught. At a&e with one of dc ill and medics treating notice smell on him and effects on you.