Did you even read the article?
Getting moderately buzzed or high is not in itself a threat to a child, if the child is home asleep and the parents are responsive and reactive to what’s going on.
There may have been more going on than just the odor of marijuana drifting out to a passing police officer, but I sure wouldn’t pull a child out of a home with her parents and put her with strangers just because daddy puts away a few beers or mommy likes her joints.
You do know that nothing happened to the little girl when she was under her parent’s care don’t you?
This happened 3 months later.
“State custody” is much more dangerous it seems. Not that this excuses the crappy things the parents did.
I remember YEARS ago when Poltergeist came out. The parents were upstairs in their bedroom smoking a joint after they put their kids to bed. He was reading a book on Reagan. It was a funny scene and a storm came and one of the kids came bursting into the room on them.
Even in the early 80s, it wasn’t looked at like the crime of the century.
“Sorry...you get drunk or high when you’re caring for a child and something bad happens to him/her you’re responsible...even if what happens would otherwise be considered an “accident” or “unavoidable”.”
Wouldn’t the same be true, using your logic, if the parents were sleeping?