By LUCY ORMONDE
Motherhood is better when you’re high.
At least, that’s what some parents seem to think.
Whether it’s a couple of times a week, after work, on the weekends, when their kids have gone to bed or even during the day while the kids are at home – a small but growing (no pun intended) number of mums are smoking joints to “counter the daily chaos” of life.
They claim marijuana make them feel more relaxed and better able to communicate with their children. “It can make you look at your kids in a more positive light,” says one mum said in this article from the .
They report:
It makes for funny reading but it’s a pretty serious subject. Is it really okay to be stoned around children?
In that same article from the New York Daily News, one doctor says that pot and parenting simply should not mix.
“You smoke marijuana, you get high,” says one doctor from a treatment centre in LA. “There’s a difference. If you have one glass of wine or beer, it reduces a little anxiety. But you could drive — you’re not impaired. When smoking marijuana, you smoke it to get loaded.”
Do you think there it’s okay to smoke marijuana when you’ve got kids? What about being high when you’re actually playing with your kids? Is it any different to having a couple of glasses of wine?
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“You smoke marijuana, you get high,” says one doctor from a treatment centre in LA. “There’s a difference. If you have one glass of wine or beer, it reduces a little anxiety. But you could drive — you’re not impaired. When smoking marijuana, you smoke it to get loaded.”
The fact that he's completely wrong - it is entirely and easily possible and common that people use small amounts of marijuana to reduce stress and anxiety, and to not get 'loaded' - discredits the whole point he was trying to make.
I dont like to judge but i think that before buying drugs you should read a little bit, just a little about drug trafficking and your participation in it.
Im a mom too. I dont get drunk in front of my kid, i dont do drugs to deal with her. Yes, sometimes she drives me mad but i try to be the best mom i can because she didnt ask to be born and she is my responsability.
I have only one kid because i know i can cope with that..i dont know if ill be able to have 2. Children are awesome but theyre also hard work! Im sick of watching women popping out 2 or more children then complaining about it! If you can't compromise with something/someone just don't do it!
Children are a choice, not consequence of life.
Read about drug trafficking, please.