Hello DGC! I started watching your show about a year ago and have watched almost every episode since. My wife and I live in New York where Marijuana was recently legalized. Since then I started an indoor personal grow. I don’t have a medical card but I do smoke for medicinal benefits. I have 3 kids and they are getting to the age where they are starting to ask questions. I want to explain to them that marijuana can be used medicinally but school is also teaching them to stay away from drugs. I feel like I don’t have good enough answers for my kids to have a conversation about marijuana. Do you have any tips on teaching kids about responsible adult use of cannabis?
Thank you all for you help!
-Smoking the Reefer
With all due love and respect my bro, I would never refer to this plant as Marijuana. That is my only personal opinion, it comes from a place of love and I want to preface what I say with that.
I think God has a sense of humor and made the most beautiful thing on this Earth the most pungent, easily detected and resourceful to humanity as one can get to perfection. I also think it is about the education of prohibition times and the larger big pharma type of plays. After that, I think it is personal preference around the smell (I have been a smoker and non-smoker and been at places where I dare not smoke and it has caught my attention.) Then I think it goes deeper than that to the philosophical side of things, which is a subject for another day or on Patreon. I also think if a state such as New York has turned okay with things that is good and I am on board. One thing on my bucket list is to roll a joint and enjoy it with my dad one day, we are in prohibition land, and he is aware I partake however we have never partook together. I also understand that is he of another generation and so I be as respectful as I can. I wonder how I would feel about this very subject when I have kids lol. Hope my two cents is of value to you my man and let me know how you get on and your approach!
I have a lot of kids (5 total)…all mine and the wife’s lol. We are also in probation land. My oldest is now 13 and he has been aware of cannabis for a little while. He just started middle school so kids got him up to speed on shit like that… so he started asking me about pot and he started saying things inferring that I used pot. At that point I felt the need to bring it up so he doesn’t say something stupid around the wrong person. So I broached that topic with him by saying cannabis is medicinal and helps all kinds of people with different ailments. I also said how CBD comes from cannabis. I think prefacing it as medicine made it easier for him to understand as a positive thing rather than have a social stigma that I’m a drug user. That really helped and to be able to see dad take care of house,kids,yard (I’m stay at home dad while wife is the bread winner…) and be a weed smoker for “anxiety and stress” but being a productive responsible adult helps paint a picture for him that weed isn’t just for druggies and burnouts. But he still is unaware of what goes on in dads secret room that no one’s allowed in…at this point I’m letting him think that’s just where I go to blaze. That’s why it smells like skunk all the time…
Explain the truth about cannabis is nuanced. I would explain to kids that cannabis is a safer alternative to alcohol and other harmful intoxicants. Alcohol is a drug. I’d certainly explain the differences between harmful drugs and cannabis. I’d say it’s a safe intoxicant that some adults choose to consume for medicine and recreation. I don’t agree with 21+. 18 is old enough to make an informed choice if the kid was raised to be a critical thinker.
i like this topic. im almost 40 now. my dad and i didnt go about it the right way. i dont have kids to try to do it differently. may all of you who do, never have to deal with it in prohibitionland.
Through an Oz on the table and make em smoke the whole thing in one sitting……
AFTER they are nice a baked come his grabbing them by the shirt collar pointing in their face…….. yelling snitches get stitches.
Throw*