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My neighbor’s 22 year old son was in town over the weekend. His nosy wife decided to check out Jr’s vehicle (which he purchased with his own money) only to find an unsmoked joint in his car. She then blows a gasket and has a complete and comprehensive meltdown as if she discovered a dead body in his trunk. She's always seriously emotional about pretty much everything.

So I get the phone call later that day that my neighbor needs a drink and he’s coming over. He relates the whole matter and how his wife reacted. I said, Would she rather find a pack of cigarettes or piles of bottles? There are worse things in the world than a joint, like cancer and death from drunk driving. He’s a very conservative guy, but totally gets the unfounded hysteria over pot.

So what is everyone’s take on the issue of Cannabis? Would you rather your adult children be addicted to nicotine or alcohol, or smoke the occasional joint?

In almost 30 years of picking up garbage (drunks & drug addicts) as a firefighter weed doesn’t warrant a mention.

I don't smoke it. Been decades since I did and even then I didn't inhale.

I'd rather have neighbors that puffed than drank too much. It's been legal in Canada for a couple yrs now. It surprises me who takes part in it now who wouldn't before. High on the job or on the road are my two big issues with it.

Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to and don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong. Sounds like his wife doesn't get it. good of you to be a shoulder for your neighbor, sounds like he has more to deal with likely on a constant basis from her. If it was me I would have a talk with my wife and remind her he's a grown man who has to make his own decisions and although they may not approve they need to respect it and move on. No good will come from her actions. The only way I would understand is if he was fresh out of rehab and ordered to stay sober etc. and it was out of concern he might relapse, but even then see the above answer, it's his life. I'd say you handled it well, a beacon of perspective without inserting yourself into the mess. Good on you

Is the wife a church bird? That may be the cause of her concern.

I love exceedingly emotional over-reactive women. All that high pitch wailing and screaming.

It like being eaten alive by Jaws, but no actual sharks are required.

So what is everyone’s take on the issue of Cannabis? Would you rather your adult children be addicted to nicotine or alcohol, or smoke the occasional joint?
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Let’s see, addicted to cigarettes or alcohol, or smoking a joint occasionally.
I’ll take none of the above, as did my kids. They drink a beer, or glass of wine occasionally, but never touch a cigarette.

I’m not a big anti pot guy, I really don’t care either way, but your question is about addiction vs occasional use of a joint. That’s comparing apples to lug nuts.
I don’t know the laws in your state, is pot legal? Alcohol and cigarettes likely are legal.

^^^this^^^

At least she didnt find a f ag mag and some lube

I expect the biden cartel to legalize pot use soon.

1. Stay the hell out of your neighbors' arguments.

2. Humans have done everything possible to get high since Oog munched a mushroom. Especially rationalizing how harmless it is.

Has your neighbor dug the hole and seeded with lime yet?

Other than the connection with laziness, violent crime, depression, psychosis and cancer, there's not a thing wrong with pot.

Nobody batts an eye here about it. On the reservation near me is no less than 20 weed shops in a 5 mile stretch of road....I don't know how they compete with one another.
As mentioned, surprising how many People smoke it, everyone has tried CBD for pain, but I see People in their 80's smoking weed often. Booze and hard drugs has destroyed many more lives than weed.

Now they want to de-criminalize small amounts of cocaine, heroin etc....yet the same People are imposing a Vaccine mandate that is ruining lives wants to turn a blind eye to the harder drugs, bizarre.

Prohibition didn't stop people from drinking.

The gov't spent a fortune trying to stop the sale and use of booze and it made some criminals very rich.

I don’t approve or support its use whatsoever! Use of that garbage leads millions into a life of addiction and misery!

40 years as an LEO, I’ve seen it destroy people after leading them into other drugs!

Nothing good comes from it being “legalized”! In fact, it is just the opposite!

I just love the quality that comes with the pot culture. Like, who doesn’t want to hang out at one of these smoke shops? Lots of good folks going in and out of those places.

Wait til that marijuana is laced with fentanyl...

Now that is an excellent point.

Not sure why his wife is wound so tight, but she would drive me to drinking.... more.

As a Libertarian, I don't see the issue with Cannabis nor the motivation to tell anyone else how to live their life - especially within the confines of their home. It becomes a slippery slope when we as a society begin deciding which addictive and destructive products are OK and which one's are evil. Tobacco and alcohol have killed millions more than Covid or Cannabis but you don't see folks getting all twitchy over that.

About the only thing dangerous about Cannabis is the threat of the local donut shop running out of product. Legalize it and move on to bigger social problems like black violence.

This. Were I in your neighbor's situation I'd:

Be enraged.
Have a severely fractured relationship with my kid
Really have to figure out where I went from there relationship-wise. It would be pretty much the same as having my kid become a sex trade worker, democrat, molester, or neo-nazi. The utter repulsiveness of it would rule my thoughts.