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[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

[cynthia1960]

My wife heard this and said that pot was only criminalized as a way to incarcerate Black people. Legalization has made it possible for white people to extract profit. I see billboards for dispensaries and mobile pot delivery apps all around the South and East SF Bay, and the folks with the capital to support these businesses are white. Oakland has reserved some dispensary licenses for Black people but it isn't enough. People with pot convictions have had to find resources to expunge their records, California didn't just vacate the convictions when recreational pot got legalized. I'd bet there are still not-white folks getting locked up for various weed offenses (outside of operating a vehicle while impaired which is still illegal).

So, yeah, LW Karen, you need to go mind your own business and until you figure out how not to be such a terminal jerk, you don't even deserve an edible to chill the heck out.