Ask Amy: I HAVE THE PERFECT ICON!

[cereta]

(Look, it's been a rough couple of days.)

Dear Amy: I have a dilemma. My daughter, who is 22, confided in me that one of her best friends from high school smokes pot.

My daughter does not hang out with her because they attend different colleges.

I was very close to this girl when she was growing up. She was at my house all the time. Her mom and I are still very good friends.

My daughter says to stay out of it and to not tell her mom.

I was very disappointed to hear this about my daughter's friend. I'm not sure what I should do. What do you think? Should I tell the mother what the daughter is doing?

Worried

Worried: I don’t think you should do anything. Would you report back to this mother if her (legal age) daughter had a cocktail?

Marijuana is quickly attaining legal status; the jury seems to be out on how casual and occasional marijuana use affects people over time.

Unless this young woman has health problems or serious risk factors relating to her marijuana use, you have no cause to report it to her mommy.

Plus — it’s simply none of your business.

Comments

[xenacryst]

Take an edible and calm down, LW.

[cereta]

Honestly, the alarmism cracked me right the heck up. My bff's local Republican leader mom makes her pot banana muffins - she even got a butter-infusing device off of Amazon. My 84-year-old mother, raised in small town southern Ohio, who once told me that the answer to {sibling} asking if I had ever smoked pot (I took the 5th) was "no" even if it wasn't "no," responded to my very timid question as to whether she had thought about marijuana for her chronic nausea, "Well, no, but my medication is working pretty well. If we get to a place where it's not, I might want some information." *\o/*

Seriously, pot? The 1980's called. They want their very special episode back.

[jadelennox]

Last week, I very nervously told my mum -- my "I've only ever been tipsy twice in my life" mum, my "I once smoked two cigarettes in the early 1960s" mum -- that I've been prescribed medical mj for chronic pain.

"Oh, I've been taking it topically in a cream for my arthritis!" she cheerfully responded.

[cereta]

AHAHAHAHA yes.

[jadelennox]

THIS.