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Smoking weed from morning to night, every day, when you have children to look after is wrong.

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420no · 11/11/2023 09:14

A couple I know abuse cannabis. I do believe there's a difference between people who occasionally partake on the weekend, or when their children are not about, or people who require and use it medicinally.. and people like the ones I'm describing who abuse it to this extent.

I'm sure most people have atleast tried weed, I certainly have when I was younger, but these people smoke it from morning until night and centre their whole lives around it.

First thing in the morning the dad is rolling up and hanging out of the kitchen window with bed head puffing away. This continues throughout the day. He comes and goes in his car, clearly high as a kite.

The mum is exactly the same. They both stink of it so the children must too. Why normalise drug abuse around your young children?

AIBU to think it's wrong?

OP posts:
ComeOnThenFanny · 11/11/2023 21:29

And coming off it might not be in the same ballpark as coming off heroin, for example - but it's really hard to break the habit, and it makes you very depressed and emotional.

Vettrianofan · 12/11/2023 06:56

wiltshirelass1418 · 11/11/2023 19:52

@Vettrianofan no, flower, cartridges, pastilles can also be prescribed as well as oil

Fair enough. I didn't realise that. I suppose that the stench could also come from these forms of the drug as well.

Vettrianofan · 12/11/2023 06:59

TheHawkisHowling · 11/11/2023 17:21

I think you should keep your beak out. If they smoke it all the time, they're unlikely to be feeling much effect from smoking at all. Hence the reason they can smoke that much and still function as parents.

I don't really see it as any different to someone who needs to be taking strong painkillers regularly. Which I do. And I can assure you I am perfectly capable of driving and looking after children, even on a dose that would send most people to sleep.

This is a drug that is legal in many places. It's an effective treatment for several illnesses. It's not equivalent to getting your face in a bag of coke every morning and then washing it down with whiskey.

Same here. I take dihydrocodeine and it's not anything like taking mild painkillers but I have to take it to get on with everyday life so I can function 🤷🏻 you get used to it. I suppose I might be judged then like these people the OP is talking about. Oh well.

420no · 12/11/2023 08:15

Vettrianofan · 12/11/2023 06:59

Same here. I take dihydrocodeine and it's not anything like taking mild painkillers but I have to take it to get on with everyday life so I can function 🤷🏻 you get used to it. I suppose I might be judged then like these people the OP is talking about. Oh well.

Neither of you have bothered reading the OP properly, that or you just look for offence.

I have clearly stated, twice now, that I appreciate there is a difference between somebody using cannabis on medical grounds - let alone prescribed medication, and what my neighbours are doing.

OP posts:
HamsterBanana · 12/11/2023 08:54

ComeOnThenFanny · 11/11/2023 21:29

And coming off it might not be in the same ballpark as coming off heroin, for example - but it's really hard to break the habit, and it makes you very depressed and emotional.

Edited

No it's not. I smoked weed for over a decade after smoking it everyday, I quit overnight!
No symptoms whatsoever, if anyone does get any symptoms it's literally all in their head.

Justleaveitblankthen · 12/11/2023 14:22

Do you really think that most people have tried it?

In my large circle of current friends, family and colleagues not a single one has even tried a normal cigarette.

I think I'm the only one who's had a wild and misspent youth 😂

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