When I walked in and found my son and his girlfriend getting high, I could have reacted a couple of different ways.
I had a vivid flashback to when I was a teenager, smoking a joint on the back porch with my friends, and we got caught by my dad.
It was a brutal scene, let me tell you. My dad screamed and yelled, threatened to kick me out, and told my friends to never come back to his house. It was very upsetting, and it also drove a wedge between my parents and me, one that still exists to this day. Instead of going down that path and flipping out over cannabis, I decided to be cool about it. Of course I wasn’t happy that my kid was smoking marijuana in my house, because at the very least he should have gone out back to do it! In a very calm voice I asked them both to step out onto the back porch and wait for me, and then I went to the garage and got my own jar of cannabis and some rolling papers. I sat down with them and we discussed the responsible way to use cannabis, while I showed them the proper way to roll a joint. Kids today use rolling machines and vape pens, but all I need is a paper and a pinch of marijuana and I can craft a masterpiece! We got good and high together, and I said that it was rude to smoke cannabis inside the house, because it stinks the place up, and they needed to do it outside.