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Dunno how many parents are here in a nonserious community, but I’m curious what y’all are doing. Probably more of a progressive crowd here even if conservative because Lemmy.

We told our kids everything when they asked, and some more when they didn’t, about all drugs including alcohol and even energy drinks. We didn’t demonize the drugs, if anything we told them pot would be a better choice than alcohol, but we told them about the negatives and even some of the positives some might have - but the dangers of drugs like heroin we hit pretty hard. Yeah, they can be fun. Some have a really steep price, though. Probably started talking about this seriously when they were 8, but they knew about it all earlier.

They already told us about kids bringing vapes to school in 5th grade. Mostly just kids being stupid trying to be cool. 6-8th shit gets more serious. Odd knife threat, real vaping, kids being sent to the hospital after pounding 5 energy drinks with 200mg caffeine in each one. And we’re in a “good” school district. Funny, in my day it was kids trying to smoke in the bathroom or loading a soda cup with vodka they got from wherever. Now it’s vapes, energy drinks, and I’m waiting for the alcohol stories. Most of the kids doing this stuff early have some f’d up parents from what my kids tell us.

How to get kids to stop smoking weed: Give them weed and show them a horror movie.

My father caught my smoking weed at the back of the house at 16 after I had finished a shift at 0300 glass collecting in a local nightclub. He looked pissed and said we'll talk in the morning. The next morning he sat me down and said he smoked weed until I was three years old.
His advice was.
"smoking weed is fun and can help you relax but you must always remember that there's more to life and weed may stop you from seeing that, stop you from doing the important things in life, so don't let it become your entire personality."

Yeah, you can't trust those Venture Capitalists

"Drugs are bad because I tried all of them and they were bad" my father said. I don't doubt he tried some, but he was also a teller of tales.

Mother said not to do them because they are deceptively kind. She's come around on weed being less worse than alcohol.

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I don’t honestly remember getting a drug talk (besides the DARE) program.

I do remember being taken to 3 separate third party sex talk plus a bunch of it in church at many different ages.

Man what a brainwashing our folks did to us.

My preschool drug talk was 'Here, puff on this'..

Not even joking. The very first word I remember is joint.

Fell asleep smoking Vietnam era weed. Doubt. Weed laced with opium perhaps.