BumpInTheNight: Question: Would you trust a person who's high to take care of your kids, as in they just smoked a phattie and intend to continue doing so while baby sitting, still cool? Why? Why not?

BumpInTheNight: raggtopp: BumpInTheNight: Question: Would you trust a person who's high to take care of your kids, as in they just smoked a phattie and intend to continue doing so while baby sitting, still cool? Why? Why not?

Good friend of mine has been running daycare for years and she's been smoking since she was 12.

She became emancipated at 16...

She became legal guardian of her younger sister @ age 17...

She pays her rent, holds down a job, and took care of two babies THAT WEREN'T EVEN HERS for 4 years because she didn't want them to go into the system.

But don't listen to me, marijuana smokers are irresponsible people because smoking marijuana makes you do crazy things just like crack does.

/reefer madness
//should i mention my engineer friends that smoke too?
///how about the couple guys with MBAs I know that smoke?

So you don't mind trusting your kids to her while she's high?

BumpInTheNight: You're making a lot of wild assumptions here, assumptions you are dead wrong about too. Go calm down, smoke a bowl or something, I'm sure your boss won't mind.

WhoGAS: Actually, he hasn't stated anything that lets us know his stance on marijuana. He's simply asked a (stupid) question to draw you into a fight.

BumpInTheNight: Personally I wouldn't be comfortable with it, nor would I be if I were transporting my kids in my car and in a situation where quick reactions were required of another driver near me and they were high. Not even assuming either party created the situation, just if I were given the choice to put my life in the hands of someone sober or high assuming all other factors were equal, I'd probably opt for the sober one.

BumpInTheNight: I'll just respond to both of you without quoting because frankly that's annoying to do :P My own background: It used to be part of my life style but I felt it was hindering me so I stopped several years back, I know many people who do though and all the power to them as they tend pick and choose their times for it (kicking' on the porch sure, driving a busload of kids to school not so much).

Now when it comes to driving absolutely there's people who just have this knack for maintaining full abilities even under the strongest influences and I commend them but until there is a way to quantify that ability vs the current level of highness I'd rather they hold off a few minutes until they're not on the roads before getting into that state, as a courtesy. There's some prescription drug takers and as mentioned above by raggtopp even sober people I'd ask the same thing of but well we're not talking about them right now.

When it comes to my kids I'd rather people be at their full wits when in charge of them, being high no matter how well you can cope with that state is purposely hindering that (arguable yes but that's my opinion after much experience). I'd pick someone who didn't opt to get high while carrying out daily activities vs someone who did, personal choice. You make yours, I make mine. Additionally and this is just personal opinion here: I think someone who consciously chooses to use recreational stimulants (I dunno, whatever term for drugs & alcohol even in the smallest of quantities) beyond times of pure recreation have got some other problems they outta sort out so again I'd opt for someone who didn't need/want/whatever to use recreational mind-editors(still trying for a good word here) throughout the day.

What you do during your recreational time is of course your business and as long as its not endangering anyone else I haven't the slightest problem with it, but being on the road is not (in my opinion) one of those times.

untaken_name: See, I think it's silly to say that NO ONE can do something, just because some can't do it safely.