Posted on 02/02/2015 12:28:23 PM PST by rfreedom4u
My daughter will turn 19 this month. She is our fifth child. She has also been the most worrying to us as she started using drugs a long time ago. She said she first smoked weed at age 12. Since then she has gone on the try many other drugs to include meth, cocaine, pills and LSD and a few others I can’t name. Last year she was in intensive care for 8 days. She has also been in jail about seven or eight times and gone through rehab twice. She is currently living with her mother and I at home but things are getting very tense. She broke up with her boyfriend and says that the stress of breakup makes her want to go get high and chill with her friends. Her friends are not true friends as they are also on drugs. Every time she hangs out with them she stays wasted for a couple days and I had to take her to the ER twice due to overdose on alcohol. Add to all this she has been beat up several times and raped twice that she has admitted to. When you add into this chaos the fact that my wife suffers from a mental illness which is made worse with stress it gets even more chaotic. Now I am at the point where I will soon have to make the choice of allowing my wife to be hospitalized because of her mental illness or I put my daughter out because of the strife she is causing. We’ve offered her all the help in the world and she continues to go on binges and tell us that what we offer won’t help. The last time she got wasted she told us all to “Go f***” ourselves. That night she left the house and was brought home by the police when they found her walking down the highway. As a parent I love my daughter endlessly. But I don’t see how (or why) I should continue to allow her to destroy the rest of the family. But at the same time I feel guilty for what I am considering. We can’t force her into treatment as she is an “adult” and I’m afraid that she will either end up in prison or dead. All this started I believe because she started smoking weed. The weed lowered her inhibitions and resistance and she started doing other drugs. So I truly believe that weed is a gateway drug and should never be legalized. If someone needs it for medicinal purposes they should have to go to a pharmacy for it just like we do with other prescription medications. It hurts me to do it, but I think I may be evicting her from the house today when I get home from work.
Man ... that is way, way, way too true. I think it explains some wacky folks I know who never smoke pot, but they're more screwed up than the potheads I know! Never thought of it before!
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Does one who supports the legality of alcohol and tobacco thereby endorse and promote their use?
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That’s just ONE question, troll. Your usual schtick is to ask three questions as you attempt to dodge and ignore the obvious charges and points made against you.
Dad is complaining that his daughter smoked weed at 12 and is now nuts.
Well what did he expect?
That's why the legal drinking age is 21.
Jeeze, lets outlaw guns because that 3 year old shot her mom too
Quote the words with which I blamed the victim.
Dope and a “dirty bomb”
Make them both free and legal and watch the dopertarians wet themselves with glee.
1. It makes you lazy.
2. It makes you stupid.
3. It’s essentially a waste of time during your youth, when you should be spending it creating a foundation for later.
4. It DOES lead to other drugs.
5. It’s ILLEGAL (in most states)
It’s very sad because most kids think that weed is a panacea, when it’s as dangerous as other drugs - it soaks into the fatty tissue in your brain for a month.
Excellent post, and exactly right.
BullCrap, it is just as easy and as cheap to buy MJ and other drugs today as it was 30 years ago, hell maybe even easier. Alcohol has been around for several thousand years, hell, Jesus even created it for a wedding. During prohibition, thousands were killed over the sale alcohol, when was the last time you ever heard of anybody being killed over the production of booze. Murder goes way back to Cain and Able, thats a human thing, been around for a while.
Yeah, most of my siblings were weed smoking kids. Probably mostly because we had a crazy mother and a father deployed most of our lives.
All but one went on to have stable, decent lives. The one who did not have a decent life was irreparably damaged long before he ever smoked dope.
And why did you not make this accusation to my face (i.e., ping me)?
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Cause you stalk me. I know you watch my replies.
Liar. Your whole purpose at FR is to promote legalization of ALL drugs.
Does one who supports the legality of alcohol and tobacco thereby endorse and promote their use?
That’s just ONE question, troll. Your usual schtick is to ask three questions as you attempt to dodge and ignore the obvious charges and points made against you.
You're projecting - you're the one dodging the obvious point that to promote legality is obviously not to promote or endorse use when the subject is alcohol and tobacco, and that therefore the two are not identical when the subject is other drugs either.
BS, The comment was, and I quote “all drugs are bad” unquote. Do you have a reading comprehension problem?
ROTFL! Get over yourself and stop rationalizing your cowardice.
Sure. OK. If I were a dopertarian.
No they are not. Guns do not tamper with the nerve connections inside your brain.
Guns do not interfere with the normal physiological process of your body.
You do nothing but promote drug usage and promote the enabling of drug usage. That you deny it makes you appear delusional.
Perhaps you are smoking too much of your own product?
If so, it matches your writing comprehension problem.
What - besides drugs are good - exactly are you trying to say?
Prayers up for you and your family.
Whatever you decide to do about this situation, never stop praying for your daughter.
No, guns don't tamper with the normal function of your brain. Guns are nothing like drugs.
Only in your WOD-fevered mind.
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