Smoking cannabis

[tryinghardest]

What's people's honest opinions/views on smoking weed whilst being a parent? When the children are in bed in the evening and you know they won't wake until the early hours... Just interested to see what other people say about it.

I don't think you should be in charge or around kids under the influence of drugs at all, including the ones I was taking when my dc were younger.
You aren't fully aware.

I wouldn't be keen because at college and later I just saw friends drop in any kind of direction or motivation. I think it's obviously good for avoiding the real world but I don't think its good for a kid if their parent does that.

I'm in Canada and love weed. It makes my endometriosis bearable.
I use edibles only and don't drink alcohol.

I used to live in a legal state so I don’t really view it any differently than alcohol. I wouldn’t with either substance get into such a state that I couldn’t deal with the kids if they unexpectedly woke but consuming it moderately is fine. I used to live in an extremely affluent neighbourhood very popular with families and I know almost all of my neighbours consume it occasionally once the kids are in bed. I know not what you asked but I don’t personally touch it in the U.K. as you don’t generally know where it has comes from or whatever it is in terms of strength/potency. Also it’s massively anti social to the neighbours to consume it in a way that smells so that should always be avoided IMO.

Wouldn’t bother me in the slightest. I don’t smoke weed anymore and haven’t for years because I go from sober to unconscious in about 2 seconds (via the munchies) but not fussed if others indulge.

Legalize it, control it. Alcohol does far more damage to the body.

......and mumsnet hits a new low. Looking for recommendations for drug paraphernalia 🤦🏻‍♀️

What if it was someone asking for a good pill box?! Weed can be a great drug with much less side effects than other drugs you buy in the pharmacy and this coming from someone who doesn't even drink let alone do drugs! You don't know if OP or other posters have depression, anxiety, chronic pain.... and are looking for better alternatives

I don't think anyone should be allowed to smoke in a building where children are present, full stop. The tobacco in the joint is far more dangerous than the cannabis realistically but cannabis disorientates you and I don't think you should be under the influence whilst looking after the children.

I feel much the same about alcohol. There should always be an adult in the house fully capable of caring for the child, should the need arise.

I don't think it's okay. I'm not anti-drugs, I took most of them in my younger years and had an amazing time but you leave those days behind when you have children IMO

I don't drink either before anyone says 'well, I bet you drink and think that's okay'...I don't ever want my DC to see their Mum under the influence of any substance and be scared. My DF was a drinker and I won't do the same to my DC, either with alcohol or drugs

I have fibromyalgia. It's the only thing that takes the pain away. I have some fri and sat and it's relaxing. I am 53 and don't have a problem with it. I have three teenagers, my son knows about it. I think it should be legalised in the uk

As long as its not in the house the odd joint is no worse than the odd glass of wine and I would say being drunk is worse than being stoned.

I have no problem with weed but a big problem with the way it’s produced.

People trafficking

www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cannabis-farms-are-a-modern-slavery-blind-spot-for-uk-police-study-suggests

inews.co.uk/news/world/trafficking-victims-spain-cannabis-factory-supplying-uk-no-knowledge-covid-1091636

www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/crime/four-wellingborough-cannabis-factories-found-as-police-safeguard-human-trafficking-victims-3269553

@polkadotpixie

I don't think it's okay. I'm not anti-drugs, I took most of them in my younger years and had an amazing time but you leave those days behind when you have children IMO

I don't drink either before anyone says 'well, I bet you drink and think that's okay'...I don't ever want my DC to see their Mum under the influence of any substance and be scared. My DF was a drinker and I won't do the same to my DC, either with alcohol or drugs

You do you of course, but it is possible to have a drink without being conspicuously inebriated, and it may even set a good example given kids will invariably find out for themselves anyway. The uk really does seem to have an all-or-nothing approach to alcohol.

@tryinghardest

What's your reason for hating it so much? Do you have the same opinion on having an alcoholic drink?

My opinion on alcohol isn't actually relevant. It's the standard crap pitted out whenever you post that you are against drugs though. Not really worth replying to. You asked about drugs. I abhor drugs. That's all you need to know.

I also have no time for drugs.
Your house and clothes will smell of it. The smell will be noticed in school.

[quote Carboncheque]www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/crime/four-wellingborough-cannabis-factories-found-as-police-safeguard-human-trafficking-victims-3269553[/quote]
A great reason to legalise and regulate.

All the regular cannabis smokers I know have little drive in life or interest in the natural world. They all say it does them good. Most of them stopped working in their mid-late 20s. One of them has schizophrenia and it makes his symptoms worse.

Maybe there are others I know and they don’t tell me and they function fine.

I get the comparison with alcohol, is someone drank everyday too it would be a problem. I think people normalise relying on alcohol to relieve stress too much.

I wouldn’t do either on my own with children (even if they are asleep) and would judge parents who do.

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I’d have no problem with legalisation or growing your own for personal use. If you don’t know the grower you could be buying from cannabis farms that are linked to human trafficking.

Nope, but then I don't drink either. What if you need to drive your child to a and e?

Then you call an ambulance @T0rt0ise - the same thing as if you don’t drive.

I seriously don’t understand the “but what if you need to go to hospital?” line that gets trotted out on this site, either in relation to drinking alcohol in the evening, or like this, smoking weed.

The likelihood of an otherwise healthy child needing to be taken to the ER in the middle of the night is so vanishingly rare that this is a useless question.
What if they need to go to the ER and you’re fast asleep?! What then?

@strokethefurrywall I really hope you don't call an ambulance just because you can't drive, that's not what they're there for. If you'd said 'call a taxi' I'd be more accepting (though given the time it can take I'd still rather not drink/smoke and be able to get my child to hospital as needed). And yes it is rare, but it's not impossible for a child to fall down the stairs and break their arm for example.

*at which point I would very much be awake because I haven't had some much alcohol/cannabis that I'm going to sleep through someone thumping down the stairs