Cannabis overdose

[wassily]

I knew a guy who worked in a food and drink establishment. He didn't touch pot, but a lot of the others there did. The crew in the kitchen were prone to making batches of heavy duty cookies in their spare time, which this dude didn't know about. One day he walked into the kitchen to find a batch of yummy looking cookies cooling. He was a bit peckish so he had one and it was damn tasty he thought. So he had another, and another till he'd had a bout 6 of em. Then he went back to work. I'll remind you he didn't smoke pot at all. He was very straight. Till the cookies kicked in. One would have been enough to waste a big bloke. I'll remind you he had 6. Several hours later he was found running naked up a crowded beach onto an even more crowded pier full of families screaming how "they were after him" and he was "gonna die". Eventually an ambulance and the cops came. He was sedated and taken to hospital.

He recovered fine, but is now very careful about eating unknown cookies.

It's either funny or scary depending on how you look at it. Lock up your cookies people.

Vaz

[widowdoc]

Any chance the pigs and poli's have to put shit on MJ, or give it a bad name they'll take it. Even when they know what they are sprouting is shit.

I agree with all the above - the babysitters should be taken for a little ride that they don't return from.

As for overdoseing - I had this big bitch indica that had a stone like a sledgehammer. A mate decided he wanted to try her. I knew he was,nt a regular smoker, so I told him to take it easy. The first cone his eyes rolled back in his head, but he insisted he was,nt stoned. I packed the second billy wjich he lit up and promptly passed out. This bloke is appox 35 years old, 6 ft tall & built like a brick shithouse. He woke up after about 5 min. Did he OD?

As for kids, I have a 16 yr old daughter. She's not interested in pot. Likes ecstasy Apparently she tried MJ when she was 14. She got sick on it and won't try it again or so she tells me. Christmas last year, a bag of very nice buds dissapeared while she was visiting me. It was very well hidden or so I thought. As a parent when the kids grow up, you are stuck with a decision - if your child (teenager) askes you for pot, you say No. so she goes out and buys from somebody she doesnt know. This is putting your child at risk, dealing with low -life scum like the babysitters. What do you do?

Youi're an asshole if you sell to young kids and you deserve to get caught. Giving a young child alcohol or MJ in my opinion is wrong and can impair there future development. :angry:

Edited October 10, 2003 by widowdoc

[Chev]

Youi're an asshole if you sell to young kids and you deserve to get caught. Giving a young child alcohol or MJ in my opinion is wrong and can impair there future development.

:: agreed. I believe that MJ should be regulated, just like alcohol or cigarettes, and shouldn't be used by teens, young ones. Teenage angst is bad enough, I remember pot really doesn't do much for your developing emotions The older I got, the much better I was at handling pot.

Same as anything, your kids need to be able to form their own opinions and assert their independence. I don't intend to hide it from him totally, but I certainly won't be encouraging my son to try pot, or anything else. When he's old enough, he can decide for himself what he wants to do. Until then, he does what mummy tells him........ yeah, right!

As long as you're always open and honest with your kids, and don't make a huge issue out of those types of things, you'll find that a teen will cope with that a lot better than trying to deal with overbearing or angry parents, as well as their own tragedies :: Respect is a two way thing

Edited October 10, 2003 by chev81

[Mr. Wasted]

if your teenager is a regular smoker and you are too, and they ask you for pot, you do have quite a decision to make.

this is something to consider: s/he is probably having to go through alot of crap to get their weed, in one way or another. or even more likely, they're taking your weed or your money to buy their own with.

talking from experience here

[Chev]

if your teenager is a regular smoker and you are too, and they ask you for pot, you do have quite a decision to make

You certainly do. I know I'd be doing everything in my power to discourage my teen from smoking it, at least until 18. But, failing that.......to be honest, I'm not 100% sure what I'd do I suppose it depends on the circumstances, and the child's age.

[Tom]

I wouldn't like my teenagers to get into pot until they are at least 18, but I would rather they came home high on pot than drunk any day.

[sols]

g'day; never expect your children to be less of a pain than you were at their age.

they will take advice off you just as you took advice from your parents.....very minimal.

the best anyone can do is just try and guide them and/or pick them up when they fall.

[RobbieGanjaSeed]

Sol's quick guide to parenting in a modern world. It's remarkably accurate. I have teenagers, through to a 23 year old, and I deal with street kids. How any of these buggers get to be adults is beyond me. I sincerely believe in a benevolant force that protects most of them.

 

Anyway, that;s another story. All you can do is monitor them, do as sol says, pick em up when they crash, and let them know gently where it went bang, and let them know they aren't the first it happened to.

 

As for supplying ya kids with smoke, why not? I've never had to do it, but I grew up smoking with my dad when I was 14. I didn't see it as anything to talk about back then, but now days, as a parent, and knowing my father better than then; he must have had so many things going through his head wondering what to do. Especially back int he 70s, things were a bit "stif" then.

 

I was pinching weed from his stash all the time, and one day he just says "here, have some of this", and passes me a tiny joint. He never shares a joint or bong, he rolls one for everyone smoking, and all smoke very civil, and healthy. I think he has a hang up about germs, and he's prob. right.

 

Anyway, we smoked together all my teens. I knew I could come home stoned or tripping, and frequently brought home stoned and tripping friends at early hours of the morning, because we had run out of places to be at that hour. Without my father as a retreat, we would have stayed on the street, at risk.

 

We still smoke today, and apart from him dieing of emphasemia (he smokes baccy like a chimmeny), all's well.

 

I spend my friday nights in a van on the streets picking up kids, and transporting them to safer locations than they are at when we find them, passing out on booze, smoke, speed, smack, whatever. They don't have parents like I did, and they cant go home, so we make them comfortable under a bridge with blankets and a bit of food and hot drink, and check on them through the night. Sometimes they come home and sleep on my floor. But whatever happens to them, they'd be far better of at home, no matter what they're on, because no matter how much the parents insist they don't do those drugs, they do em. And the safer their environment while they are on them, the better. I've seen very pretty young girls used like trash, young boys with their faces knocked in by cops, you name it, and a lot of the time, they should have been home with their parents.

 

Rustafarians have some religous ceremony where the kids have their first smoke at about 13 I think. maybe younger, maybe there's no set age? I'm not sure. but it is certainly young. I don't hold to rustafarianism, but the adults seem to be peacefull, they're world famous as layed back and cool. And they started by their parents and the community handing them smoke when we would normally hang somone for doing so. And their kids are typically less in trouble with the cops than our western kids so I believe.

 

I wouldn't ever encourage my kids to use any drug except for health reasons. but if they're already using, and they need what I've got...well I'm gonna have to cross that one if and when it happens. So far I have only 1 thirteeen year old left that might put me in that position, and one 4 year old and hopefully she's a long way off. But I was recently hauled intot eh cop shop,. to answer for my wife buying a carton of piss for our 17 years old son. he was picked up at a party, with the carton. it was bought supposedly to be shared betwen a number of kids. Anyway, he took the fall, and so in turn did we.

 

They chewed us out, and let us off. But it did cause some conflict in the house, beause I'm dead against kids drinking. I did it, and was a confirmed alcoholic at 16 or so, hypocrasy's a deep thing. (BTW, I could come home tripping or stoned as a kid, but booze was out of the question, and I respected that).

 

Anyway, it's a hard one.

 

cheers

rob