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Sure, it's (a little) tricky to tell if a candy has marijuana in it, especially for a kid. The solution is simple, just don't leave your pot candy laying around

by tibbon 11y ago

Sure, it's (a little) tricky to tell if a candy has marijuana in it, especially for a kid. The solution is simple, just don't leave your pot candy laying around for kids!!! If I had kids, had pot candy, and lived in CO, I'd have a small lockbox/safe in the top of my closet with the candies in there... and/or simply have other forms of edibles that were less attractive to kids.

ycmbntrthrwaway 11y ago
Or just don't buy pot candy if you have kids, just as you don't buy alcohol and drink at home if you are a good parent.
- notvplez 11y ago
  I fail to see the connection between drinking alcohol in your home and the quality of your parenting.
  - ycmbntrthrwaway 11y ago
    Being drunk in the presence of your kids is worse than not being drunk, especially when your kids are not allowed to drink with you.
    - mikeash 11y ago
      Drinking does not require being drunk.
      - ycmbntrthrwaway 11y ago
        Upvoted you, of course it doesn't. But if we are talking about "pot candy", can you say that you just like the taste, as you can with alcohol? Never tried it, maybe you can, but now I guess that smoking pot or eating pot candy involves getting high more or less.
        mikeash 11y ago
        You can also just enjoy the actual drug effects of alcohol without getting to the point of being actually drunk. I have no experience with marijuana, but I'm sure there are different degrees there as well.
        oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
        TL;DR Weed and alcohol in moderation are both fine. Alcohol in excess is far worse in the short-term. Grandparent sounds like they might not be a drinker. Fair enough, I have no issue with that, but - as you point out - there is a whole world between being teetotal and being drunk. The stereotype (which, yes, also goes for weed) is that one swig of a drink turns you into a staggering, vomiting wreck. In actuality, the mast majority of drinking (that I have experience of, anyway) is in moderation, with a meal, and results in a pleasant relaxed feeling which is totally unlike being drunk. Weed, actually, is different - again, IME - in that the effects aren't quite so wide-ranging. Now, I've not experimented with really strong strains/forms, nor smoked an insane amount in one sitting, but a small amount has a very pleasant effect, and - for me - a greater amount doesn't really change it that much. I prefer to smoke in moderation, have a great time, and spend as little as possible. I have never done anything I've regretted under the influence of marijuana, nor have I injured myself, embarrassed myself in public, or woken up the next day feeling even slightly bad, let alone like I want to stay in bed for a week. Apart from the legal status (here in the UK), MJ is a far superior drug in every way.
    - logfromblammo 11y ago
      Teaching your kids how to tend bar, including when to cut someone off, is a valuable life skill.~ My personal opinion is that to prevent party-related mishaps later in life--particularly between the ages of 18 and 22--you need to teach your kids how to party responsibly before they leave your household. Thanks to the keen foresight of federal highway funding bills, this means you will almost invariably have to break the law in order to protect your kids in the US. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of not having to visit the cop shop or emergency department--or both--because your kid never learned about the potential dangers of satyrs and maenads before running off and joining the bacchanalia.
      - JoeAltmaier 11y ago
        In the same vein, teach them to handle a firearm. And drive in bad conditions (slippery, offroad, gravel). And cross country in harsh weather on foot (rain, snow). And negotiate transit stations.
        logfromblammo 11y ago
        As long as you're covering all the commonplace disasters, better include how to manage their consumer credit, how to not fall in love with a train wreck of a person, and how to behave around cops.
radnor 11y ago
Yeah, it really should be up to the parents to make sure all edibles are locked up. An 8-year-old kid was hospitalized last week for eating a "cookie in a wrapper on the ground": http://www.kiro7.com/news/northwest-boy-hospitalized-after-eating-pot-cookie/92878830 http://www.kiro7.com/news/northwest-boy-hospitalized-after-e... I find the story highly unlikely. It's probably more likely that he saw a weed cookie on the kitchen counter and ate it without knowing.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
  In any case the kid was unharmed.
DanBC 11y ago
I agree, but plenty of children are hospitalised or die after accidentally overdosing on medication that people leave out. There are a lot of grandchildren that die after visiting their grandparents and taking an overdose of strong meds. Older people without children tend to forget that meds need to be locked up and don't want the inconvenience of locking meds away when they only have children around occasionally. These are preventable deaths, they do happen, they happen way too often, but these are not reasons to make the meds / drugs illegal.
- PixelB 11y ago
  Your argument holds zero weight/relevance in this discussion because you can not die from an overdose of marijuana. No, not even if you ate a 50 edibles. Not even if you smoked 15 blunts back to back. People like to throw out the "hospitalized" statement all the time. Just because someone was taken to the hospital does not mean that they were ever in any actual danger. Someone's kid eats an edible and "feels funny" so they are taken to the hospital. Someone's kid eats a bottle full of Vicodin that they thought were candy and are taken to the hospital.. if you think those two things present the same danger to the child than I don't even know how to respond.
  - DanBC 11y ago
    Sure, the kid's not going to die. That doesn't mean that it's harmless for children to take cannabis. These conversations are really fucking tedious because every single time I forget to say "I am strongly in favour of legalising drugs" someone leaps in to make some ridiculous point - here "no possible harm to children from cannabis". If you think it's okay to let children take cannabis then I don't even know how to respond.

by tibbon 11y ago

ycmbntrthrwaway 11y ago

Or just don't buy pot candy if you have kids, just as you don't buy alcohol and drink at home if you are a good parent.

notvplez 11y ago
I fail to see the connection between drinking alcohol in your home and the quality of your parenting.
- ycmbntrthrwaway 11y ago
  Being drunk in the presence of your kids is worse than not being drunk, especially when your kids are not allowed to drink with you.
  - mikeash 11y ago
    Drinking does not require being drunk.
    - ycmbntrthrwaway 11y ago
      Upvoted you, of course it doesn't. But if we are talking about "pot candy", can you say that you just like the taste, as you can with alcohol? Never tried it, maybe you can, but now I guess that smoking pot or eating pot candy involves getting high more or less.
      - mikeash 11y ago
        You can also just enjoy the actual drug effects of alcohol without getting to the point of being actually drunk. I have no experience with marijuana, but I'm sure there are different degrees there as well.
        oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
        TL;DR Weed and alcohol in moderation are both fine. Alcohol in excess is far worse in the short-term. Grandparent sounds like they might not be a drinker. Fair enough, I have no issue with that, but - as you point out - there is a whole world between being teetotal and being drunk. The stereotype (which, yes, also goes for weed) is that one swig of a drink turns you into a staggering, vomiting wreck. In actuality, the mast majority of drinking (that I have experience of, anyway) is in moderation, with a meal, and results in a pleasant relaxed feeling which is totally unlike being drunk. Weed, actually, is different - again, IME - in that the effects aren't quite so wide-ranging. Now, I've not experimented with really strong strains/forms, nor smoked an insane amount in one sitting, but a small amount has a very pleasant effect, and - for me - a greater amount doesn't really change it that much. I prefer to smoke in moderation, have a great time, and spend as little as possible. I have never done anything I've regretted under the influence of marijuana, nor have I injured myself, embarrassed myself in public, or woken up the next day feeling even slightly bad, let alone like I want to stay in bed for a week. Apart from the legal status (here in the UK), MJ is a far superior drug in every way.
  - logfromblammo 11y ago
    Teaching your kids how to tend bar, including when to cut someone off, is a valuable life skill.~ My personal opinion is that to prevent party-related mishaps later in life--particularly between the ages of 18 and 22--you need to teach your kids how to party responsibly before they leave your household. Thanks to the keen foresight of federal highway funding bills, this means you will almost invariably have to break the law in order to protect your kids in the US. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of not having to visit the cop shop or emergency department--or both--because your kid never learned about the potential dangers of satyrs and maenads before running off and joining the bacchanalia.
    - JoeAltmaier 11y ago
      In the same vein, teach them to handle a firearm. And drive in bad conditions (slippery, offroad, gravel). And cross country in harsh weather on foot (rain, snow). And negotiate transit stations.
      - logfromblammo 11y ago
        As long as you're covering all the commonplace disasters, better include how to manage their consumer credit, how to not fall in love with a train wreck of a person, and how to behave around cops.

radnor 11y ago

Yeah, it really should be up to the parents to make sure all edibles are locked up. An 8-year-old kid was hospitalized last week for eating a "cookie in a wrapper on the ground": http://www.kiro7.com/news/northwest-boy-hospitalized-after-eating-pot-cookie/92878830 http://www.kiro7.com/news/northwest-boy-hospitalized-after-e... I find the story highly unlikely. It's probably more likely that he saw a weed cookie on the kitchen counter and ate it without knowing.

fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
In any case the kid was unharmed.

DanBC 11y ago

I agree, but plenty of children are hospitalised or die after accidentally overdosing on medication that people leave out. There are a lot of grandchildren that die after visiting their grandparents and taking an overdose of strong meds. Older people without children tend to forget that meds need to be locked up and don't want the inconvenience of locking meds away when they only have children around occasionally. These are preventable deaths, they do happen, they happen way too often, but these are not reasons to make the meds / drugs illegal.

PixelB 11y ago
Your argument holds zero weight/relevance in this discussion because you can not die from an overdose of marijuana. No, not even if you ate a 50 edibles. Not even if you smoked 15 blunts back to back. People like to throw out the "hospitalized" statement all the time. Just because someone was taken to the hospital does not mean that they were ever in any actual danger. Someone's kid eats an edible and "feels funny" so they are taken to the hospital. Someone's kid eats a bottle full of Vicodin that they thought were candy and are taken to the hospital.. if you think those two things present the same danger to the child than I don't even know how to respond.
- DanBC 11y ago
  Sure, the kid's not going to die. That doesn't mean that it's harmless for children to take cannabis. These conversations are really fucking tedious because every single time I forget to say "I am strongly in favour of legalising drugs" someone leaps in to make some ridiculous point - here "no possible harm to children from cannabis". If you think it's okay to let children take cannabis then I don't even know how to respond.