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<blockquote data-quote="Nandina" data-source="post: 757663" data-attributes="member: 23742"><p>Hi JMom,</p><p></p><p>I think there are a lot of people who can and do smoke marijuana casually and not have it adversely affect their lives. My 19 year old son is not one of them. My husband and I think it is his downfall. And that is pretty much his drug of choice.</p><p></p><p>He is quite open about how much he smokes and the fact that when he was working, every payday his first priority was buying more weed. They say you can’t get ”addicted” to marijuana—if he is not addicted to mj, he is at least addicted to being high. Whatever amount he buys, he smokes it all up in a matter of days. He does everything to excess like that, including drinking. There is no happy medium with him—it’s all or nothing! But he is also a reckless kid in general, not just with mj.</p><p></p><p>His use of mj affects his ability to get jobs if there is a drug test required. It has also affected his ability to function on a daily basis, and he has missed work because he got too stoned the night before, stayed up late and was too tired to wake up.</p><p></p><p>The potency of today’s mj is concerning to us. Not like the weed of our youth. My son already has some issues with how his brain functions and I can only imagine how many brain cells have been destroyed through his daily smoking of mj over the last year and a half, since he left home.</p><p></p><p>I talked to him since he was a small child about drugs and that he would be predisposed to addiction if he tried drugs and not ever to start, as his birth family on both sides are all drug addicts and/or alcoholics. When he turned 18, it was almost as if he couldn’t WAIT to try weed. The kids in school were doing it. He wanted to fit in. He ended up loving it and says it makes him feel “normal.” (he has ADHD)</p><p></p><p>I can’t influence him anymore (not sure I ever did) but like you, I can insist that he not be high around me, in my car or in the home and that is my boundary. He is fairly good about respecting it.</p><p></p><p>Jmom, I would feel the same way as you do if my son were showing the signs of growth that your son is. They are going to do what they are going to do regardless of our opinion. But a little mj use in his own home, though not ideal, is a far cry from the meth, cocaine and heroin use of his past.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nandina, post: 757663, member: 23742"] Hi JMom, I think there are a lot of people who can and do smoke marijuana casually and not have it adversely affect their lives. My 19 year old son is not one of them. My husband and I think it is his downfall. And that is pretty much his drug of choice. He is quite open about how much he smokes and the fact that when he was working, every payday his first priority was buying more weed. They say you can’t get ”addicted” to marijuana—if he is not addicted to mj, he is at least addicted to being high. Whatever amount he buys, he smokes it all up in a matter of days. He does everything to excess like that, including drinking. There is no happy medium with him—it’s all or nothing! But he is also a reckless kid in general, not just with mj. His use of mj affects his ability to get jobs if there is a drug test required. It has also affected his ability to function on a daily basis, and he has missed work because he got too stoned the night before, stayed up late and was too tired to wake up. The potency of today’s mj is concerning to us. Not like the weed of our youth. My son already has some issues with how his brain functions and I can only imagine how many brain cells have been destroyed through his daily smoking of mj over the last year and a half, since he left home. I talked to him since he was a small child about drugs and that he would be predisposed to addiction if he tried drugs and not ever to start, as his birth family on both sides are all drug addicts and/or alcoholics. When he turned 18, it was almost as if he couldn’t WAIT to try weed. The kids in school were doing it. He wanted to fit in. He ended up loving it and says it makes him feel “normal.” (he has ADHD) I can’t influence him anymore (not sure I ever did) but like you, I can insist that he not be high around me, in my car or in the home and that is my boundary. He is fairly good about respecting it. Jmom, I would feel the same way as you do if my son were showing the signs of growth that your son is. They are going to do what they are going to do regardless of our opinion. But a little mj use in his own home, though not ideal, is a far cry from the meth, cocaine and heroin use of his past. [/QUOTE]
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