Being Up Front and Straight With Teenage Children About Cannanbis
Found the following interesting and entertaining article on parenting in these time of growing cannibis legalization and broad acceptance in our society. Excerpt below. CLN - I n the words of Bob Dylan, the times they are a-changing, and parenting is like trying to build IKEA furniture without instructions. For many, the way we had cannabis explained to us growing up isn’t the same way we’d approach it with our kids now. I’m sure plenty of Satanic-panic era parents probably remember the fire and brimstone and “weed is a gateway to hard drugs ” D.A.R.E-esque evangelism. Still, explaining cannabis to kids can be a tough conversation, and we want to approach it without lying or coming across hypocritical. Fortunately for me, my family were low-key smokers, meaning they didn’t exactly hide it, but they didn’t advertise the fact they smoked more than one kind of cigarette. I thought the plants in the greenhouse were tomato plants — even though it was always odd how we never had