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To: i-node who wrote (784280)	5/11/2014 12:01:26 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) of 1576398

What are you talking about? I told my kids why they should not try any other drugs, because they might like them and would have a hard time getting away from them. So I told them to never try them. Not even once! And they listened to me, because I always told them the truth and they trusted me. Giving them permission to smoke pot and drink a little alcohol gave them an out. In fact one daughter told me years later I might have saved her life because most of her friends were taking hard drugs and I had told her not to do it. And so she didn't. My kids respect me. I have a very right wing friend who would never tell their kids what I told mine i.e. it was OK to smoke a little pot, but nothing else. He lost his kid to heroin. My kids used to tell me what their right wing friends did i.e. sneak around and lie, because their parents were just strict and said: "just say no to drugs" which is a stupid thing to do and why many parents lose their kids to drugs. They do not have a good relationship with their kids and do not discuss drugs with their kids, except to say No! In fact my kids tell me all the time that most of their friends do not have good relations with their parents and thank me for raising them so gently and openly. One is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Loyola law and the other is a scientist working on three degrees: environmental science (BS-done), computer science (in progress) and graduate work in quantitative analysis, starting in fall at Oregon state in Corvallis. They are real sweet kids, self actualized, kind and sure of themselves and very funny and with good long term relationships. And both were raised gently, with few rules and among a multitude of pot smoking hippies where they were always included in the conversation-:>). True. Neither was ever spanked. << That comment says you have no idea what is going on with drug addiction. You don't "tell" an addict not to be an addict anymore than you "tell" someone with a chronic illness not to be sick.

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