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We had a cat Lucifer ...black of course....who had the habit of finding dropped Stanley panes in the shag carpet.....that damned cat lived to be 20 or so.

All early 70s memory lane sh!te aside....it is very very wrong for parents to introduce drugs to any children much less toddlers. Somebody comes to a dinner party at my house and they must light a fatty ...they go outside. No heavy drinking either.

Never thought I'd be so "unenlightened" in middle age about getting high when I mused about it 30 years ago but I always knew better than to give kids dope. I remember even at 17 or so seeing some 6th graders smoking herb and thinking even then that something was quite amiss with that.

The only exception I would make about drugs for little children is paregoric. By G-d, the parents of today like me could sure use that little colic/ear ache miracle reliever. You have to literally get on your knees today and beg a pediatrician to dose pain meds to your children. It's like they are either damned scared or just think tylenol will cure any ache. Shame.