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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Because young kids ask a lot of questions and talk about what they see and hear. You don't want the kid blurting out at the supermarket "hey, daddy, that looks like the water pipe you use!"
As they get a little older, you want to teach them to follow the law, because they aren't old enough not to without fucking themselves up, or to deal with drugs without getting too fucked up.
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That's silly, IMO. Respectively: people use water pipes with regular tobacco; when did you start smoking pot and do you really think that smoking in front of them in a responsible way is going to be worse w/r/t following the law than them just being exposed to their friends doing it covertly; under that theory you shouldn't drink in front of them at all either.
Anyway, whatever. I knew my parents occasionally smoked pot, although they did not do it in front of me. Other people's parents did it in front of me when I was young (more when I was young (under 10) than when I was older, in fact) and I didn't end up trying it until college and have never really found it that appealing.
ETA it's your choice, obviously. I just think that "because that's what we're comfortable with doing with our children" is a better answer than specious arguments about "oh seeing us do that will make them break the law left and right and turn into heroin addicts." It's like you are buying into all the religious right TV advertising.
