Child services and Marijuana

I was wondering if there was someone out there who has had an encounter with child services about marijuana who could share their experiences and what the out come was. They have made their presence into our lives and I have been honest with them about my marijuana use. I have gotten a Dr.'s note from a natruopath and the next step is getting my acmpr, I'm just worried everything wont go thru in time before its to late.

My younger sister admitted to child services that she was a cocaine addict for 3 years while her kids were still under 5. She told them she now smokes weed everyday but doesn't do any other drugs. They barely flinched. They had bigger worries than mom smoking weed.

dopeyG said:

I was wondering if there was someone out there who has had an encounter with child services about marijuana who could share their experiences and what the out come was. They have made their presence into our lives and I have been honest with them about my marijuana use. I have gotten a Dr.'s note from a natruopath and the next step is getting my acmpr, I'm just worried everything wont go thru in time before its to late.

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Keep your ducks in a row.

dopeyG said:

I was wondering if there was someone out there who has had an encounter with child services about marijuana who could share their experiences and what the out come was. They have made their presence into our lives and I have been honest with them about my marijuana use. I have gotten a Dr.'s note from a natruopath and the next step is getting my acmpr, I'm just worried everything wont go thru in time before its to late.

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Firstly, NEVER tell them anything...as long as the child isn't at risk, it's none of their fucking business. Alcohol is potentially deadly if ingested by a child, as are pharma pills...cannabis, not so much. Force them to justify interfering in your life...ask them what they have in their liquor cupboard or medicine cabinet.
I went through the same thing over 20 years ago when there was no legal mmj. A neighbor got pissed at my wife and called to rat ME out. They weren't worried about my pot use, just that the kids were not at risk. Asking them to list the booze and drugs currently in their own homes and prove the safety of their own kids kinda ended the interrogation. Funny thing...the nieghbours husband got pissed with her for being a rat and got the kids in the divorce!

My brother in law and his wife are heroine addicts, when we called childrens services to get the kids out of that situation they literally told us that just because they are on heroine doesnt mean the kids are in danger and did nothing....years later they finally lost custody when they totaled their car high with the children inside, one broken arm, one a broken hip, the other fine, but mom and dad were high as hell on heroine...safe huh?

Bbcchance said:

My brother in law and his wife are heroine addicts, when we called childrens services to get the kids out of that situation they literally told us that just because they are on heroine doesnt mean the kids are in danger and did nothing....years later they finally lost custody when they totaled their car high with the children inside, one broken arm, one a broken hip, the other fine, but mom and dad were high as hell on heroine...safe huh?

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"kids are in danger"

sometimes we THINK taking kids away from a situation is in their better interest...

WHEN ITS NOT... I guess you'd raise them instead?

dont use the fact they smashed their car with an excuse.
COuld have happened any time high or not.

gb123 said:

"kids are in danger"

sometimes we THINK taking kids away from a situation is in their better interest...

WHEN ITS NOT... I guess you'd raise them instead?

dont use the fact they smashed their car with an excuse.
COuld have happened any time high or not.

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Could have, but didnt, and no they would have been, and are being raised in a safe home with a responsible caregiver.
And how is it that 11 and 13 year old children watching their parents pop skin in the childs best interest...getting them out of their is the best thing for them, if you cant see that then you need help.

Now they are fed 3 meals a day at with the last one coming well before 10 p.m., they still see their parents at supervised visits, they are now always clean and bathed, in clothes that fit, attending the same school (they used to be moved school to school based on where their parents were at the time) homeless junkies tend to randomly move.


But maybe you are right, they may have been better off with their parents... Dad is in the hospital right now recovering from surgery. The doctors told him that his lungs are so fucked from the h he smokes that he wont survive sleeping on the streets this winter. Should we send the children back to them so they will be better off? Didnt think so.....

Obviously there are times when removing the kids from the situation makes sense...non-functioning addicts of any substance are incapable of raising children. Recreational users that manage to pay the rent and feed the kids are not the problem.

I agree that pot is the very least of the problems, but what i'm worried about is a social worker that decides she wants to use the law to her advantage. I can argue with them until i'm blue in the face, all they have to say is "its illegal". Thay why i'm curious where i stand with having only a confirmation of diagnosis and recommendation for marijuana from a naturopath. This would be BC law as well BTW

Honestly man, if you have confirmation of a diagnosis and are in the process of obtaining your ACMPR you can basically tell them to fuck right off.

dopeyG said:

I agree that pot is the very least of the problems, but what i'm worried about is a social worker that decides she wants to use the law to her advantage. I can argue with them until i'm blue in the face, all they have to say is "its illegal". Thay why i'm curious where i stand with having only a confirmation of diagnosis and recommendation for marijuana from a naturopath. This would be BC law as well BTW

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get legal asap
get into the program and there should be no more issues. you're using it as a medicine

One of my patients had her kids taken by child services (for a couple weeks - still traumatized by it too) when they busted her trying to grow her own medicine. She lost in court too. It very much depends on what province you live in. Be careful and admit nothing.

Why in God's name did you admit to use before physician's authorization/documentation from Health Canada? For Christ's sake!