Reply #28: Your niece, my daughter, are the smart ones which means they are usually fearless

[riderinthestorm]

they think they "know" what to look for, so they won't be the ones who smoke tainted stuff. Unfortunately we know better as adults. Tainted stuff is just a fact of smoking illegal dope, real or synthetic.

You won't know unless your nieces sleep over so make a point to have an open door. I caught my daughter when she fell asleep with the stuff "out" beside her bed. But the bleary morning eyes had me wary for MONTHS before I caught her with the drugs. I grabbed her cell phone while she was still too stoned to resist and that's when I learned all the hard truths - dealing, exchanging sex for drugs - 14 years old and this had already been going on for months. You are wise to be wary at 13. Like I said, there's an 11 year old in her group sessions, one boy whose 12, and another whose 13 - all of them hard core pot users already. Real pot. I've only discovered about synthetic pot (and my daughter was using that too in retrospect now that I know).