Pot Smoking Kids

[Canadian Blue]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_64...stm?bw=nb&mp=wm

Glad to hear that Children Services intervened before it got any worse.

[leonardcohen]

On the plus side,this experience might put them off smoking altogether:}

[geoffrey]

Don't worry, it's harmless!

[obsidian]

I don't think there is anythin wrong with smoking weed, but like 2 year olds...wtf.

[BubberMiley]

Don't worry, it's harmless!

No, it's very habit forming and should be kept far away from minors.

[jdobbin]

No, it's very habit forming and should be kept far away from minors.

So it should be a crime for youth and okay for adults?

[Wilber]

So it should be a crime for youth and okay for adults?

Should you be allowed to feed your two year old gin? A two year old can't commit a crime but the adult who feeds it to them sure as hell should be.

[Wilber]

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[Wilber]

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[Monroe]

So it should be a crime for youth and okay for adults?

Should you be allowed to feed your two year old gin? A two year old can't commit a crime but the adult who feeds it to them sure as hell should be.

Absolutely. The mroe you can get cannabis out of the hands of fairly unpleasant characters and into some sort of legally controlled process, the better.

[Wilber]

Absolutely. The mroe you can get cannabis out of the hands of fairly unpleasant characters and into some sort of legally controlled process, the better.

Legality of the substance is not the issue here, it is who it was being given to and who was doing the giving.

[jdobbin]

Should you be allowed to feed your two year old gin? A two year old can't commit a crime but the adult who feeds it to them sure as hell should be.

I was thinking of the broader issues of decriminalizing for adults and making it a crime for youth.

[Monroe]

Should you be allowed to feed your two year old gin? A two year old can't commit a crime but the adult who feeds it to them sure as hell should be.

I was thinking of the broader issues of decriminalizing for adults and making it a crime for youth.

I think that's a principle pretty well established, though, surely, with tobacco and alcohol? The only question is what age you set the level at.

[jdobbin]

I think that's a principle pretty well established, though, surely, with tobacco and alcohol? The only question is what age you set the level at.

That would entail legalizing and regulating marijuana which is something the government seems loath to do.

Some people here can't even agree if the substance is harmful or not. Even the argument of it being habit forming is debatable by some.

I personally have no idea. I don't use the substance but all that I've seen written on it (including two medical studies last week) indicate that the drug has none of the problems of alcohol or tobacco have.

Would I give it to two a year old? No. But then I wouldn't give a two year old a Slurpee either.

It seems that this BBC story was about teenagers doing stupid things with children. I'm not so sure it's a crime as it is the absence of parenting.