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What age is appropriate for the MJ talk?

I think 13 or 14 is a good age.

A large majority of my friends and aquaintences started experimenting around this age, and I know I would have been super happy if I could talk to my parents about pro's and con's instead of having to skulk around and scour the nets for details.

thanks erowid.

Are you still using now?

Cause if you are chances are he will figure somethings up and ask about it if you are.
 
Jibult said:
i don't think promotion should come at all.

i'd give them the facts and, if they asked, my experiences and opinions, but i would never encourage a child of mine to use any kind of drugs (if by promote you mean the same thing as encourage).
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Ah, well, I meant more in the realms of theraputical use. I have been on anti-depressents and Xanax, and I would have easily taken up toking medically over these addictive and self-altering pills any day. I feel that my family would also have preferred the same, given some of the stuff I've been through. Withdrawls are a bitch, especially when you actually need the meds.

I would certainly promote the use of pot over being prescribed addictive substances like Xanax or klono when possible. I suppose I was also being optimistic- I was assuming that at some point within this decade MJ will be either legalized or decrimed country wide (USA). My relationship with weed has always been positive, although I know substance abuse is a very real thing. I should have provided this background or used a different word than "promote". To me, it seemed like the OP was quiet fond of the plant! "Pro-marijuana parent" certainly seems like he planned on promoting it later on -- I was simply providing advice if this was the case.

Hopefully someday soon talking to your kids about weed will be the same as talking to your kids about alcohol. :)
 
meh, were I lived DARE started in 4th grade, (which Ironically sparked my interest in Marijuana, anything that would allow me to commune with talking bunnies was cool at the time) though I would say that 7th or 8th grade would be the ideal time for the talk, just from personal experience, though if your kid is immature I'd do the opposite of what everybody here says and talk to them earlier
 
chainer3k: i definitely get where you're coming from. if your son/daughter seems to have some kind of medical issue (from anxiety attacks to, God forbid, multiple sclerosis or cancer) that pot can help, then i'd be promoting it over most prescription drugs, too.

Xanax can be nasty stuff when you let it sink it's claws into you. i got prescribed it in 12th grade, abused the hell out of it and ended up missing out on most of Senior Week because my parents figured it out and took my pills away, leading to a really nasty withdrawal. so yeah, medicinally i would promote the hell out of pot for my sick children... but i wouldn't promote it in a recreational sense. i'd let them figure out their stance on recreational drug use after teaching them the truth about the health hazards associated with rec. drugs.



maloxx: wanna know what sparked my interest in drugs, namely weed? god damn rap music, man. it had me thinking pot was amazing before i ever even knew what the stuff looked/smelled like. 8)
 
Jibult, I think we are on the same page on this one, just a communication error on my part. Thanks for clearing up! We seem to have had similar experiences with Xanax -- I dropped it cold turkey, but for my own reasons, also in 12th grade. Not a fun time. I wish I had just stuck to smoking on an as-needed basis, but live and learn!

To the OP, I think you've got plenty of good/solid advice now, the rest seems to depend on the case/child. Good luck!
 
Facts and experience is beyond what anything can tell you!!!! Whenever the kid is mature enough, you will know when.
 
I'd say the right time is when you find your kid watching an above the influence commercial and reacts either by

A.) laughing his or her ass off

or

B.) strongly agreeing with the commercials message
 
My parents I think started talking to me in the 4th or 5th grade, cause that's when the sex ed, started in health class at my school. So I guess they figured if I was mature enough to start learning sex ed in school then why not drugs. D.A.R.E. started in the 6th grade anyway.

So I would say once you get that letter from the school saying your kid is going to start learning sex ed, then I would say they are mature enough to start learning about drugs too. They start drilling in D.A.R.E. a year later anyway, so I don't see a problem, unless you feel your child is a bit immature for their age, then I would say do what you feel is right as a parent. I remember some kids not taking the sex ed with the rest of us because they had uptight parents or they really were immature spawn who would have never made it through those classes and their parents knew it so they opted out.
 
Jibult said:
to talk to your kids about drugs?


i think 17/18 is waaaay too late for anything a parent says to change the misinformation-based opinions that a teenager's likely to have developed by that age.
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I agree. I'd say freshman year of high school at the latest but chances are they are gonna come in contact with drugs and alcohol before then.

Shit man, all the drinking and stupid shit I did while a teen, I want my kid to smoke weed. I will promote it as a safer alternative to drinking. I'd much rather have a son smoking and chilling at the house with his friends than going out drinking and fighting. If its a daughter then of course she's gonna be safe as I follow her around with a shotgun in hand j/k.
 
well, let me look up a bottle of children's cough syrup real quick:

"Robitussin® has a complete line of effective pediatric products specially formulated for the needs of children.

Do not use in children under age two."

source: http://www.robitussin.com/pediatric/index.asp


would you blow down with your 2 year old son/daughter/niece/nephew?
 
If I have kids, I would tell my kids when there 13/14. That's when I first started getting into marijuana/other drugs. I would want them to ask any questions about pro/cons for marijuana or even other drugs.

If you wait till their older, they would probably already be passed experimenting already...
 
Jibult said:
maloxx: wanna know what sparked my interest in drugs, namely weed? god damn rap music, man. it had me thinking pot was amazing before i ever even knew what the stuff looked/smelled like. 8)
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haha, I know what ya mean there, though I hated rap with a passion till I tried weed
 
Jibult said:
well, let me look up a bottle of children's cough syrup real quick:

"Robitussin® has a complete line of effective pediatric products specially formulated for the needs of children.

Do not use in children under age two."

source: http://www.robitussin.com/pediatric/index.asp


would you blow down with your 2 year old son/daughter/niece/nephew?
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no, but mainly because of the smoke and psychological aspects, not because of the drugs toxicity, ribotussin and advil (while not very toxic) are certainly more physically taxing to the body than weed
 
Well this applies in the same way, i guess.


My parents don't know shit when it comes to facts about drugs, and my little brother is 12 now. He knows I smoke pot and do drugs, but I haven't had a big talk to him about weed in general. I showed him how a bong worked, when I punched the cone he thought it was going to explode or something and jumped back :p


I told him I wouldn't let him start smoking until he was the age i was; 15.
 
Completely dependant on the child i believe.. But i'd say starting from 13 onwards, and i'd repeat the talk again each year, altering the content to become more appropriate. I'd also not allow my children to do the DARE programme at school. Its responsible for filling kids heads with bullshit about drugs, and in turn made them more dangerous I feel.
 
I don't think age would really be the deciding factor in my personal life. I'm pretty sure I'd go by my judgement of the youths responsibility.
 
My father has always been a pro-marijuana parent, but didn't start talking to me about it until I was thirteen, when I mentioned I was interested in it. I began smoking at 14, and started smoking with my dad at 15. I probably wouldn't have as much discipline with how much I allow myself to smoke per day if it weren't for him, so I believe that having a parent that is pro-MJ is a great thing.

Speaking of marijuana, Im'a go smoke some sweet, sweet cheeba right now!!!
 
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