emjay said:
Uh... if anything it actually makes less sense if your parents DIDN'T do drugs, because then they wouldn't have experienced it and would not nearly as qualified to make those decisions for you. If anything, they just don't want to see you go through what many people (and quite possibly your parents themselves) end up going through before you realize what a waste of money and life it can lead to (in their eyes, anyways).(
Yeah I wanna remark on this. When I was in school and started "dabbling" with weed and acid, my parents of course found out. Well after talking to them about it, they admitted that they used to be hippies and smoked a lot of pot and hash, but that was it. I asked if they ever did anything else, and they said no. Well, all I could think of, even at that young age, was "well then how can you possibly tell me what it does or doesn't do then?" I mean, obviously they were no strangers to THC, but they were ignorant to just about everything else.
So I set out to experiment with and try out everything else that's common out there (and some of the uncommon ones

). My reasoning was that, knowing how much it upset me that my parents were trying to tell me things about acid that they had no fucking clue about, I wanted to be able to tell my own kids someday from firsthand experience what is good, bad, safe, dangerous, boring, worthless, etc.
I'm approaching my 30s now, and while I don't have any kids yet, I still feel the same way. If you've never done something before, then how DARE you tell me anything about it.
I have every right in the world to tell my kids not to do something I've done before. I've done it before! It doesn't make me a hypocrite, it makes me a grown adult that knows more than an inexperienced child.
On a related note, I can't wait to toke up with my future son. I will do everything in my power to teach my kids to never take that first drag off a cigarette, and to try to convince them to smoke pot instead of drink.