Would you mind if your teenager smoked weed?

[SecretSquirrels]

DS1 now 16 has recently mentioned several times that he has seen people he knows smoking weed. Not any of his friends but his year group and younger. He is very straight laced and judgy about it but reckons there has been zero drugs education at school and there should be (his opinion as well as mine).

I have seen two threads recently on which many, many posters openly admitted to smoking weed. I don't know whether these are very young parents with young children or whether they have teenagers but I am genuinely shocked.
Am I so out of touch or out of date that this is now normal?

Yes I mind. Very clear with 17yo ds - our house our rules!

Not that I'm prudish about it - tried it as a student - but have also seen how psychologically addictive it is and its link to depression.

Dope is not harmless esp for those who night be vulnerable to mental illness

I've been reading some of the reply let by others on this thread and im just laughing at all the bull shit dramatic story's people make up.

I'm laughing at the dumbarse who doesn't even notice this thread is 4 years old.

Bumbaclot Sat 23-Jun-12 03:38:22

"Why are doctors prescribing cannabis for medical purposes in California and other states? Why would they prescribe a drug that, according to opinions here, can cause schizophrenia, is addictive, is toxic, damages the brain, ruins lives etc. Look up the science for yourself if you really care."

A lot of prescribed medicines are dangerous and addictive. Look at cancer medications and what they do to you. Doctors who prescribe potentially damaging medication are trying to counteract a medical condition which they perceive as even worse than the risk of side effects.

The AD's prescribed for my dd's prescription are a known suicide risk and have been known to result in psychotic behaviour. She would not have got it if a medical team had not evaluated her whole situation and judged that she was at even greater risk without the medication. That does not mean it is a sensible risk for a healthy person to take.

My MIL was given high doses of morphine during the last few years of her life- because her pain would otherwise have been unbearable. Does anyone believe that morphine is not destructive or addictive? The fact that doctors here in the UK prescribed it proves nothing whatsoever about its innocuousness.

whoops, that's the first time in a long time I have been caught out by a zombie.

Definitely. I also dabbled as a student but I was an adult then and knew the risks, plus was in the 90s mainly when it wasn't as strong. I know of 14 yr olds that smoke weed and worry for them. I think v different smoking dope now as a younger teen who may be doing it to 'fit in' or look cool and not realising the consequences or what it can lead to.,

I may be out of touch too, but in answer to the OP, if my teenager smoked (anything) then I would mind... enormously!

I would mind if DD was to smoke it when she was a teenager as she's at a higher risk of a certain mental health condition which can be triggered or worsened by weed (her dad has it and gets so so much worse when he smokes, although he thinks it makes him better)

If she didn't have this risk then I'm not sure how I'd feel about it. I don't like the stuff but I don't think its that bad for the average, healthy person.

Bugger, didn't realise this was a zombie