I used to smoke it and it made me SO paranoid, I hated it and I found it really easy to quit. I smoked it just before my nephew was born and his mum asked me if I would like a hold of him, and i refused because I diddn't trust myself in the state I was in and that was the last time I had it.
Everytime someone mentions the stuff I get queezy and I panic when thinking back to how paranoid it made me feel and I always wonder how many other people feel how I do and still smoke it?
I used to babysit for a woman who rolled joints infront of her 7 year old daughter and if her daughter would ask what she's putting in it her mother would reply 'just something to make the fag stronger'...
Kids arent thick and they shouldn't be around it.
I hate how pregnancy books state 'There is no known evidence about pregnancy and cannibis and it's effects, bla bla bla' If they say smoking is harmful to a fetus then obviously a joint is more harmful!
Back to the original subject, how do I feel about people being around babies and children and smoking it? I'm totally against it. When I used to get stoned I hardly heard my phone ringing sometimes because I was in that much of a world of my own so I wouldnt trust myself around a baby who could possably be crying for ages before i'd even heard it etc...
Alcohol is a different situation for me, I could be really drunk but if kids were around me i'd sober up pretty quickly. Last christmas me and OH went to his uncles pub for xmas dinner, and afterwards he let us all help ourselvs to his optics behind the bar and we all drank LOADS! When we left my brother asked me if i would have my nephew for an hour and that was it, I was completely sober! Kind of a downer lol but my nephew is worth it
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How can people say they can enjoy their children more whilst being stoned? Do these people actually REMEMBER doing anything with their children whilst being stoned? I used to forget really important things when I smoked it and sometimes I still do forget things and always blame it on smoking that stuff a while ago! (plus pregnancy brain lol)...
And as another poster said it's not fair that these people can have children as easily as they do and other people who dont do these things have hard times. There's a woman that lives near my sister who smokes pot all the time and takes Phet too...oncer she put some in a cup of tea which her son picked up and drank, and he was trying to climb the walls and everything because of how it affected him, and she still has her children, also her house is a mess with razor blades in window sills and tablets in reach of children etc...my sister always says 'it p***** you off how people like her can have children no problem, and people like me and my sister have both had miscarriages...'
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