Should parents smoking pot lose custody of their children?

[Mortimer]

Who's talking about prohibition and harassment?

to take away their children is harassment

[Smitty]

to take away their children is harassment

Well, I haven't advocated for that. But it's negligent parenting, nonetheless. Pleasure (however insipid) shouldn't obviate one's responsibilities to the people he brought into the world.

[Insuperable]

No, not at all. They (along with alcohol abusers) should be beaten to a pulp by authorities and after two months when they are released from the hospital like nothing happened say 'here try to smoke again near your children or not care for your children'.

[Dandelion]

While foster care is not an ideal option at all, I think the possibility serves as a deterrent punishment. Any parent unable to give up on intoxication for the sake of their children if given the choise do not deserve to have custody of their children. And given the option I think the vast majority would give up on drugs/booze.

How inhumane it is is also dependant on each individual childs experience and personality. Each case must be dealt with individually. My opinion is that it should not be socially acceptable for parents to intoxicate themselves while parenting. And I question the legitimacy of how acceptable alcohol is perceived.

A crude and strictly applied policy over the welfare of children that likely breaks up flawed yet functional families is a terrible idea. Ruling through mainly fear and deterrence, very typical of what we're seeing in the Islamic world. No thanks. It sucks and isn't functional.

[Lek]

Is there research to suggest marijuana is healthy in small amounts? That sounds more like something a pothead would claim. I can't think inhaling any kind of smoke is healthy.

Fast Food isn't healthy, let's ban it.

[Smitty]

Fast Food isn't healthy, let's ban it.

Good luck banning anything in Mexico, buddy.

[Herr Abubu]

Smoking tobacco is harmful as well. Should smokers' children be taken away? I'm no pot advocate, by the way. I despise the stuff.

The mental effects of tobacco and Cannabis are completely different. It isn't about mere harm in the utilitarian sense of the loss of life expectancy for useful wage earner cash cows, mere physical harm, it is about the mental and moral degeneration it causes.

[Smitty]

The mental effects of tobacco and Cannabis are completely different.

Of course. But provided one isn't mistreating his children while under the influence, I can't see what objections there could be to marijuana other than the health effects.

[Herr Abubu]

Fast Food isn't healthy, let's ban it.

I'm totally onboard with that.

[Herr Abubu]

Of course. But provided one isn't mistreating his children while under the influence, I can't see what objections there could be too marijuana. I assume, then, that the objections are health-related.

Harm and mistreatment is a very murky idea. Today, because of our liberal assumptions, we pretend that harm is only when there is violence involved, while exposing children to porn is alright because it's not violent. Exposing children to porn is, however, greatly harmful, in ways that are more subtle, but also far more damaging.

Cannabis greatly harms a person mentally. Anyone who says otherwise is either too inexperienced with it or too stupid to know either way. A person who intentionally destroys his mental faculties and spiritual self as a recreation relinquishes his responsibility for others since he can't even be trusted to himself.