Do you think that it is irresponsible for someone to smoke marijuana in front of their children?

[LoZoccolo]

Poll question: Do you think that it is irresponsible for someone to smoke marijuana in front of their children?

[Better Believe It]

1. If the kids are adults, no. Perhaps you should give more options.

[Better Believe It]

15. I made a typo. If your kids are adults I don't have any objection.

[hobbit709]

2. Do you drink alcohol in front of your children?

[Iggo]

34. There it is.

[piratefish08]

37. there you go.

i would MUCH rather my children see a group of people under the influence of weed than alcohol..........


and any honest cop would tell you the same thing.

[unkachuck]

3. I think it's irresponsible....

....to smoke anything in front of children....

[Ishoutandscream2]

6. +1

[onehandle]

7. Yep. nt

[Brickbat]

4. Neither one nor the other. Sometimes; it depends; there are a lot of factors to consider. Just like

when I drink in front of my kids.

[Riley18]

5. Once it is legal it would be okay. Although I would still worry about smoke.

[apocalypsehow]

23. I didn't see your post until after I'd posted mine: you sum it up perfectly. n/t.

[TheWraith]

8. I would say under most circumstances, no.

It's irresponsible if:

1. They're supposed to be monitoring the child.

2. The child is being encouraged not to smoke marijuana or otherwise experiment.

3. The child is young and therefore particularly subject to the risks of secondhand smoke. Whether it's tobacco or pot, it's still secondhand smoke, and it's still harmful to bystanders.

[krispos42]

9. Only if they don't share.

:hide:


Well, it's something that can get them in trouble if the kids tell their teacher or something, so probably it's irresponsible in that you can't care for your kids if you're in jail.

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. I think anyone ought to be able to take their medicine at home

But the kids ought to be away from the smoke.

[TheKentuckian]

11. Other: Neither, either, both, yes, and/or no.

Probably some other options I missed too.

[DemocratAholic]

12. be careful your kids don't turn you in

Smoking marijuana is nothing to be ashamed of, and I know of parents who do it in front of their children and still have intelligent, well-adjusted children who are not brainwashed with hypocrisy. Of course, when I say "in front of their children" I don't necessarily mean in the same room, I just mean they don't hide or lie about the fact that they smoke pot. I think the proper thing to do would be to do it in privacy because it is not an activity which you can share with your child. A warning to people with children who do smoke pot: My friend's son told his mother that they had been encouraging students at his school to turn in their parents who "do drugs." So if you have a child who is likely to be brainwashed and turned into a finger pointer, you might not want to reveal the fact that you smoke pot to your child.

[sammytko]

35. Please do not make your child embarrassed to be a "finger-pointer"

I've read here and in other forums about kids not telling thier parents or other authority figures about being bullied or molested etc. "They were scared" - well hello , adults keep telling them not to be a tattle tale or finger pointer, yet we get up in arms about a rap song calling out "snitches" - you know - don't talk to the cops. To me its the same thing.

Wouldn't you call these kids - whistle- blowers - a phrase DU loves?

Don't make them afraid to speak out.

[Ohio Joe]

13. No

[dionysus]

14. that's a bullshit question. only the dumbest of stoner would do that in front of little kids.

if the kids were grown kids, it'd be fun family bonding

[Tsiyu]

16. My thoughts:

My use of cannabis is based on what physicians have told me as well as scientific evidence.


But I always wanted to ask these questions of those who panic over cannabis ............while using massive doses of Pharmco Solutions themselves. :wtf: (Legal does not mean "more safe." We lost a kid to pills here recently. Combination of Xanax and OPana. He was just the latest of dozens of folks O.D.-ing this year alone on Pharmco products in our community. We haven't lost a single man, woman or child to cannabis abuse.)

Now to the questions:


If a parent has cancer, and cannabis works to give him an appetite, and he needs to have an appetite to survive and continue parenting, wouldn't that be good?

If a parent has MS and smokes to relieve pain and tremor so that he or she can be a more fully functional parent, wouldn't that be a good thing?


If a parent has PTSD or other disorder and smokes to reduce anxiety and flashbacks and nightmares, wouldn't that be a good thing?


How would their smoking in front of their kids be any different than popping a Pharmco Solution in front of their kids?

Anybody have an answer?

[cherokeeprogressive]

17. Yyyyyup.

[PufPuf23]

18. Disruptive poll IMHO.

There are many shades of gray in the question.

[RegieRocker]

19. Not anymore than drinking in front of their children.

Because it's illegal?

[Rex]

20. I think doing anything adult oriented in front of your children might be

a bad idea.

[Liquorice]

21. It's irresponsible and very stupid. It also requires that you tell the children to

keep what you're doing a secret, which is also harmful to them--not to mention breathing in the smoke. And what child wants to be around a stoned (or for that matter drunk) mommy or daddy?

[Tsiyu]

25. Since that is your staunch position

let me ask you this: (Very, very wholesome and Black and White position there, BTW.) should parents also refrain from taking other prescribed psychoactive or mood-altering pharmaceuticals while around their children? Even if their physician recommends they take a regular, prescribed daily dose? Say for depression or PTSD?

If a parent has a glass of wine, does that count? If one glass of wine makes you "drunk", does a small bit of cannabis make you "stoned"? What is your experience with these substances? Does everyone get "drunk" and "stoned" from all of their medications, or only from those two substances?

If a parent is in severe pain, does that count? Can they have a little bit of pain relief or is anything beyond acetamenophen (sp?) going to make them "stoned?"

If we are talking about MMJ as medicine, in a state where it's legal, which it is for many people, are you saying their medication is somehow more immoral than say Ibuprofin or Hydrocodone? Why? Factoring out the legality, which we've already established is so.

If it's legal there, no lying to children would take place, anymore than for an aspirin or Xanax.

Circular arguments and exaggeration are the tedious tricks one must wade through when it comes to this issue.

[apocalypsehow]

22. I think as long as its ILLEGAL it would be. Legalize it, as I would like to see happen, and then no,

I don't think it would be irresponsible as long as it was done outside, or in an well-ventilated area. My concern there would be the smoke, not the marijuana itself.

[Ter]

24. Hell yeah

Once you're past 25, you should give up that kids stuff anyway.

[Rebubula]

29. LOL

AT 43, I still enjoy the 'kid stuff'.

I am always amused when I find such judgmental posts on this site.

[Ter]

39. It's illegal, isn't it?

What does it do for you?

[LeftishBrit]

26. I think it's irresponsible to smoke anything in front of your children

Assuming that you mean when they're actually children, not grown-up offspring.

[seabeyond]

27. i think it is to smoke in front of them, take a puff in another place. i dont think it hurts

or causes problems to parent and be stoned...

as long as not an abuse and neglect, but then that would have nothing to do with the pot, but the parent

and there is the contact high to consider... regardless of the visual of parent breaking law, doing drug.

[War Horse]

28. In *front of* them, sure...

But a pot smoking parent is not irresposible simply by virtue of being a pot smoker.

[annabanana]

30. dumb poll. . no medical marijuana option? 5 year olds or 25 year olds?

yes or no is dumb

[pipi_k]

38. How about...

not choosing either, and writing in "Other" with an explanation?

I mean, it's not like the usual online poll where people don't even have the option to explain.

If people don't think outside the box, then yes...lots of things are going to be "dumb".

[eShirl]

31. It's not OK to expose children to second hand smoke, IMHO. Vape your medicine

or use a tincture, whatever. And don't leave special brownies out; we all know resistance to chocolate is futile.

[rbnyc]

32. +1 (nt)

[Dorian Gray]

33. I'm going to be totally honest

I went to a party recently, and new parents were smoking in front of their infant child. They were drinking as well. Now, she didn't know what they were doing, but it bothered me on two levels. 1) The second hand smoke can't be good for the little baby's lungs, and 2) Babies that age (only a few months) wake up throughout the night. She was still being breastfed, and I was uncomfortable with the level of drunkeness/stoned that both parents were.

I have a one year old, and I don't drink much at all. (Haven't smoke pot in ages.) I'm not against either of them, but it's really important to me not to be intoxicated when I'm taking care of my baby. And maybe I'm sort of puritanical about it, but it really bothered me to see other people get so intoxicated when they had to care for their infant daughter.

[pipi_k]

36. As long as it's illegal, yes, I do feel it's irresponsible. Especially if

the adults smoking it have told the kids not to say anything to anyone else about their pot smoking.

If that's happening, it's just WRONG. Kids shouldn't be asked to keep an adult's secret(s).


If it ever becomes legal, then I would have mixed feelings about it.



PS...comparing it to drinking alcohol in front of one's kids, as some here have done, is not the same. Alcohol is legal. Nobody is going to get in trouble for using it unless the parent is dead drunk all the time and abusing the family. Having a glass of wine with a meal isn't illegal.

There's a difference between legal and illegal, and flouting the laws in front of one's kids is irresponsible.