Page 6 | Parents smoking weed?

buttercrinkle · 2022-02-21T08:57:21+00:00

I'm in a mum group on Facebook and a poll was posted about whether we smoke weed or not, I ticked no, but was in the minority! Most of them said they do smoke it regularly, when their children are in bed. They said there's nothing wrong with it and it's similar to having a drink. I just don't think I'd be able to be on the ball if there was an emergency or something similar. What if your child needed to go to a&e? Although I suppose some people don't drive. I'd feel the same about getting drunk with DS asleep upstairs. Am I being an unreasonable prude?

JessieLongleg · 22/02/2022 11:52

@gamerchick

The only time o go to work stoned is on Saturday overtime when the office is empty as I don't need to talk to people. Arrive ay 10 ish rather than 8am. Just get on with my work. Which is heavy numbering skills and I find it gets me in a flow. But a normal day people call me all day, meeting etc and I need to be less into my work and ready for distractions and problems. Just think it's a waste of weed before work.

Now as a medical vaper o would only toke a more CBD weed pre work for pain. Save the thc for when I get home.

Don't knock people for English skills I'm have learning difficulties with words but have strong number and memory skills. Both assessment done 15 years apart as went back to uni as a mature student and still have high memory skills. Quite often predictive text changes words and it's hard to someone who struggles with words to see that. Every day I have to work at my writing skills it's a learning difficulty not just something Im bad at. Have confused previous managers as come across as very intelligent work to high standards, great personal communication skills but struggle with writing especially under pressure.

TheUser420 · 22/02/2022 12:00

The best way to remove criminality from using cannabis is to grow your own. A trip to any local hydroponics store will demonstrate how many people are dumping the dealer.

Discussions about the harm of cannabis have to be made in the light of the fact that as a society we are quite happy to see people killed and injured each year in the name of sport or work. So drugs policy isn't about harm reduction. It's about enforcing a particular view of morality. A morality which says only state-approved mind altering drugs are allowed. Which is why the Psychoactive substances act had to be worded to explicitly allow alcohol. Because a law that banned all psychoactive substances would ban alcohol, tobacco and caffeine.

Rory1234 · 22/02/2022 12:03

There’s a huge difference between having one joint when you’re used to it and getting stoned out of your mind.

I know from my younger days that I don’t enjoy it and it goes straight to my head whereas I have friends who have a joint occasionally and it has the same effect on them as a couple of glasses of wine.

It’s not black and white.

UnevenBooks · 22/02/2022 12:12

I wouldn't say completely unaffected, just not so inebriated I can't function and produce good outcomes.

Weed and alcohol affect me completely differently. Alcohol makes me more emotional and overly confident, whereas weed focuses and relaxes me, which in turn enables me to be more rational.

I wouldn't attempt a uni assignment after a drink, but always do after a smoke because it takes away the non-stop background noise in my brain and enables me to just focus on the task.

It's great for cleaning, organising, paperwork. Otherwise when I'm doing these things my brain is still stressing me out thinking about 101 other tasks I need to do, or thinking about my past or the future, and it means I'm not really "there" in the moment giving the task my all because my brain is distracted by "grandma isn't doing well, what will happen when she dies?", "Am I reading to DD enough?", "need new cutlery, where should I get?", "Urgh my hair is shite and I could do with losing weight", "remember when you did X when you were 9?", "I'd like to watch X film", "have you paid the water bill?" And a whole host of other unhelpful (for the present moment) random shit. I find a smoke just clears my brain and helps me de-stress enough to be more present and less "in my head". I then focus on what is important right then and leave the other stuff for after. It's a great help for a racing mind.

That's just me though, other people it has differing effects on.

gamerchick · 22/02/2022 12:15

[quote JessieLongleg]@gamerchick

The only time o go to work stoned is on Saturday overtime when the office is empty as I don't need to talk to people. Arrive ay 10 ish rather than 8am. Just get on with my work. Which is heavy numbering skills and I find it gets me in a flow. But a normal day people call me all day, meeting etc and I need to be less into my work and ready for distractions and problems. Just think it's a waste of weed before work.

Now as a medical vaper o would only toke a more CBD weed pre work for pain. Save the thc for when I get home.

Don't knock people for English skills I'm have learning difficulties with words but have strong number and memory skills. Both assessment done 15 years apart as went back to uni as a mature student and still have high memory skills. Quite often predictive text changes words and it's hard to someone who struggles with words to see that. Every day I have to work at my writing skills it's a learning difficulty not just something Im bad at. Have confused previous managers as come across as very intelligent work to high standards, great personal communication skills but struggle with writing especially under pressure.[/quote]
So it's a need. I couldn't comprehend going to work stoned and I could do my job jn my sleep. A need is a problem relationship with drugs. No matter what the reasons.

Don't have a clue what you're on about in the last part of your post like. I don't give a toss about English skills

UnevenBooks · 22/02/2022 12:20

Because a law that banned all psychoactive substances would ban alcohol, tobacco and caffeine.

I have always said this to my anti-weed but drinker grandparents. That if the government decided that actually, alcohol causes many social and financial problems for the country, so they are banning it, would they be happy with that? I doubt it. They would say "Well not everyone has a problem with alcohol, some people just like a beer sometimes or a drink with their dinner and it doesn't cause any problems". Exactly, grandmother, it's the same with cannabis. But they just can't see it that way. I'm sure if there was a prohibition many people who state "but weed is illegal" would find a way to homebrew or find black-market booze, as did happen.

UnevenBooks · 22/02/2022 12:23

A need is a problem relationship with drugs

Plenty of people who use weed to self-medicate some of their issues would just be on prescribed drugs otherwise, because they have a need for something to help. They choose weed rather than pharmaceuticals. Luckily places like USA acknowledge the medicinal benefits of cannabis. Prescribed drugs cause many problems for people and for those people, weed may be a better option that agrees with them more.

gamerchick · 22/02/2022 12:30

You're using a lot of words to just say you're a heavy weed user. I'm not sure what you're expecting me to say. As long as your manager is happy you take drugs before you go to work, I'm sure it's sound.

UnevenBooks · 22/02/2022 12:33

I don't smoke before I go to work because I don't want to risk a zero-drug-policy lose my job, although it's weird smoking would make me lose a job because "it's a drug", but if I was taking prescribed benzos it would be OK.

I smoke in my free-time to help me de-stress.

Sorry if that wasn't directed at me gamer, but it was directly under me and the person you originally replied to hasn't posted since your last reply so it looked like it was to me.

TheUser420 · 22/02/2022 12:50

I don't smoke before I go to work because I don't want to risk a zero-drug-policy lose my job, although it's weird smoking would make me lose a job because "it's a drug", but if I was taking prescribed benzos it would be OK.

Benzodiazepines are not only addictive, but irreversibly affect brain chemistry when used long-term. A fact many long term users only discover when they have seizures when (trying to) quit.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19465812/

for example

UnevenBooks · 22/02/2022 12:59

Benzodiazepines are not only addictive, but irreversibly affect brain chemistry when used long-term. A fact many long term users only discover when they have seizures when (trying to) quit.

Yes, I know. This is why a few people I know have opted for smoking weed, or using oils and edibles, vaping etc, rather than benzos or sleeping pills etc, as for them they feel the risk with weed is lesser. I think cannabis should be a viable medicine here.

inmyslippers · 23/02/2022 15:57

inmyslippers
I think not taking drugs is a bare minimum requirement when you have kids 
Do you include prescription drugs in that? No insulin for diabetic parents? No chemotherapy for parents with Cancer? Seems a bit harsh not having chemo because you have children

^^ oh you pedant

TuscanApothecary · 23/02/2022 16:09

I don't like it. I actually think it's far better to go to a festival and get off your head once a year on recreational drugs (without your dc) than to smoke weed everyday whether they're in bed or not.

It's well known that children of smokers grow up more likely to smoke and the same could be easily said for weed smokers.

I have a few fringe friends that smoke weed and use recreational drugs regularly. I don't judge them per say but I wouldn't go to one of their dcs birthday parties or BBQs as they will all be on it around their dc. I don't particularly have any issue with any drug taking. I've used a lot of drugs in my past, I just don't believe drugs and dc/family mix well together.