It was bound to happen.

My son just told me (yesterday) that he's in D.A.R.E. Now i"m not too worried as i have no actual plants he can say i have in such a way: "hey, my dad has these" or similar. ha But I am worried he's going to think something along the lines of "dad doesn't grow chili peppers, he grows drugs!"

He and my little girl happened to go into my grow room a time or two (get high and forget to lock door behind me sorta thing) and so i told them i was growing different chilies indoors to get em started to transplant. I have actual gardens throughout spring and summer. It worked until one day recently, my wife and i were in hasting's and my daughter (who just turned 5, was 4 at the time) says "Daddy look, thats YOUR plant!" She was speaking of one of many Marijuana pictures she had seen in the collectibles/posters section. I was laughing but at the same time saying "shut the hell up, i grow peppers" in a whispering voice that made my wife and oldest son (16) laugh hard at. I said it laughingly too by the way. I was like shit, this little girls too smart for my own good!

Something else my daughter said, shortly after i had harvested my plants my daughter seen em hanging up. Later on that week when i jarred them my daughter comes up to me and says "i know what you do with your plants daddy" she said with a grin.
I replied "you do? Well i do too, i eat them!"
She follows by correcting me in saying "No you don't, you smoke them!"
I was dumbfounded until i realized she was reading my high times magazine at some point in the day. I hide those mind you but it came to be known that our 16 year old was reading em in his room and left it out.

what cute things is she saying when you are not around?

I'm never not around. I work from home.

Its my son thats got me more worried. He's a do gooder type. I want to ask him what hes learned thus far but at the same time, I don't want to know. lol

Why are you worried, comrade?

Bring up the fact...he is still alive, educated, loved and wears warm clothes when it's cold, who cares if dad is stoned half the time

Because he'll end up saying something. lol. No, i doubt he will but the thought has crossed my mind. paranoid i suppose.

MojoRison said:

Bring up the fact...he is still alive, educated, loved and wears warm clothes when it's cold, who cares if dad is stoned half the time

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Right? Not to mention daddy is much happier with the green.

lokie said:

They talk.

I met a man 1 time that grew fields of ganja. fast forward 8 years.

Some friends of mine on vacation came over to party. The dude's wife and 18 yr old son
had come to stay a week. All is good. One night the teen decided to be
a braggert and tell everyone in the room his father grew weed. must have been 5 or 6 complete strangers
and a few friends that learned something about the dude. All in a conversation 1000s of miles away.

I tried to steer the convo off topic and later schooled the boy on that was just something that should Never be done.

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you can never keep them under your thumb.

It will behoove you to figure this out before its too late.

I have had friends whose kids called CPS on them for growing and he was not growing.

This is when you trot out the history of cannabis prohibition. The studies on the benefits of cannabis and the harmful effects/consequences of legal alcohol/tobacco v.s. the harmful effects/consequences of cannabis. Then I would follow up with healthy dose of responsible usage. The fact that you go through such lengths to separate your kids from your grow is a good indication of your parenting skills. Kudos, sir. Compare that to people who drink and smoke in front of their kids (most of the time to excess).

It's just an unfortunate side effect of being a toker, society feels that we can't take care of ourselves let alone a child, we're just a bunch of brain dead pot heads to most... people who fail to recognize that we drive them to work, cook their food, build the homes they live in and yes protect and care for them in a professional manner. It makes me laugh sometimes.

I recommend aggression. Bring up the topic. Make certain that he understands that the greater duty is loyalty to family. Otherwise you're allowing an unsafe situation to persist. The idea makes me sick with fear, but I worry that the greater breach of courage would be to not get your son's head straight (so to speak) about this. cn

cannabineer said:

I recommend aggression. Bring up the topic. Make certain that he understands that the greater duty is loyalty to family. Otherwise you're allowing an unsafe situation to persist. The idea makes me sick with fear, but I worry that the greater breach of courage would be to not get your son's head straight (so to speak) about this. cn

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I agree - Do not say you are growing drugs. Tell him(if you are in a legal state) that it's your medicine and you are verified to maintain a personal supply of it, if he were sick you would get him something to make him feel better would you not? When you don't feel good you need your medicine. He should respect the fact that his father is doing something that he does not want others to know about.

Sorry to say it, but safe is better than sorry here. Kids don't understand the cosequences of their actions sometimes. At the ages your kids are, it does seem risky to me. check out the recent post section. There is a post from some dude in Florida somewhat similar to this. Not in circumstance, mind you, but he didn't listen to his gut when he should have. Paranoia in situations like this isn't necessarily unfounded. Kids that young don't realize the importance of secrecy. Also, at their age, the cops would have a field day with you. I'm not trying to make you feel more nervous than you already are, but just pointing out the cold, hard facts of your situation. If you decide to bail, at least you can always pick up later when they are older and not have the memory of a raid to REALLY make you paranoid. Hope things settle down for you! Hang in there, man.

Lol... D.A.R.E.

Hepheastus420 said:

Lol... D.A.R.E.

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D.A.R.E. you to smoke a bowl with me after school*kickball court*

writtin said:

D.A.R.E. you to smoke a bowl with me after school*kickball court*

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I triple dog D.A.R.E. ya.

Drugs Aren't Really Evil

A possible angle is when the acronym is unpacked, it means Drug Abuse Resistance Education. Beat them at their own game ... show your son how the Gov't is the actual abusive one here, unilaterally declaring something to be true when it doesn't stand close inspection. Arm him with counterfacts and subvert the damn subverters who'd turn him into an informant for the State. Educate him to resist the unspoken, impolite sort of abuse that swirls around all sorts of drugs and would have us believe that morally, weed and meth are the same. I better disengage ... i'm getting angry. cn

cannabineer said:

A possible angle is when the acronym is unpacked, it means Drug Abuse Resistance Education. Beat them at their own game ... show your son how the Gov't is the actual abusive one here, unilaterally declaring something to be true when it doesn't stand close inspection. Arm him with counterfacts and subvert the damn subverters who'd turn him into an informant for the State. Educate him to resist the unspoken, impolite sort of abuse that swirls around all sorts of drugs and would have us believe that morally, weed and meth are the same. I better disengage ... i'm getting angry. cn

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Yeah in CA weed and coke are on the highest level while meth is a 2nd level one that "isn't as bad because it's the end of the gate not the gateway drug"