Do you do drugs with your family?

In My Humble Opinion
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When I was quite young, I remember my grandmother letting me have a watered-down juice glass of Maneschewitz Concord Grape wine for medicinal purposes. I shudder at the thought of drinking that sicky-sweet stuff! :eek: I’ve let my daughter try some drinks, but she doesn’t much like drinking. I wanted to demystify alcohol for her, and so far, she just doesn’t seem interested in it.

My parents let us sample wine and mixed drinks and beer (ick - I can’t stand the stuff) but alcohol never did anything for me. There was no drug use in my family apart from prescribed meds, altho one of my sisters later became a recreational drug user. The first, and I think only, time I was around pot was on a double date, and I was furious when I found out later (yeah, I was really naive) since it could have cost me my security clearance and possibly my career.

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My family and I have been known to drink together, including times when I was too young to do it legally. And we let my son have moderate amounts now, before he is street legal. He usually declines.

I never used any other drugs in front of my folks, apart from some toking with my siblings as a young Shodan.

Regards,
Shodan

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Maybe a new reason to try again.

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My mother and I trade Valium and/or Ativan. (Somebody always has a prescription). We all drink together. My sister and I also drank in appropriate amounts at home growing up. That’s about it.

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Hmm, well, I’ve smoked pot with my brother and sister many times…Being more “bohemian” than I was they always seemed to have it in their possesion! I did mushrooms with my sister and her friends once…Whoa that was weird…but now that I’m a boring, married lady in my early 30s I don’t do this sort of thing anymore. Bummer! Oddly enough it was a nice bonding experience with the siblings. I remember laughing till I cried…

Celyn you slay me girl…Black Hash Shortbread…Tee hee. Now where can I get some of that? An import store I suppose?:smiley:

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My extended family is a good time. You wanna join us at our next family reunion? We have always welcomed each others friends in our adventures.
I am a control freak. I don’t ever drink to the point where I am not in control. I did not feel like I was in control the night I tried pot.

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My cousin and I always partied together. Mostly just alcohol and weed. Only time I ever did esctacy was with her.

I’ve had a couple beers in front of my Dad. I wouldn’t like to get hammered in front of my parents though.

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I don’t know. You live in Iowa, and odds are I’ll be in California and/or Arizona for the next few years. And last time I was in Iowa, it was frightfully boring. But that’s just me.

Have fun, though!

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I don’t know. You live in Iowa, and odds are I’ll be in California and/or Arizona for the next few years. And last time I was in Iowa, it was frightfully boring. But that’s just me.

Have fun, though!

BTW, have you ever really taken Dopers to family reunions?

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Whoops, sorry bout that (semi-)double post.

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Some of my family is a doper. Hi stormchaser.
My family has met a few other dopers. They are cool with everyone, as long as those everyones are cool with them.
IOWA, Boring???
That is probably why we drink so much.
BTW, our reunions aren’t always in Iowa, this coming years maybe in Missouri.

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I found Missouri more interesting than Iowa, although at the time I was with family friends. It was a bit annoying to me that we were introduced to family friends’ friends’ as being “from California”. This is annoying to many Californians, as we don’t think of ourselves as “from California”–we think of ourselves as “from San Diego”, “from LA”, “from Oakland”, etc., if you know what I mean.

As Lews Black says, you Midwesterners (talk about annoying labels) aren’t alcoholics, you’re professionals! :slight_smile:

Wow, I think just double-hijacked my own hijack. Back to the original topic!

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I’m pretty sure that my brother has smoked pot with my parents, though I can’t think of an example occasion off the top of my head.

My parents tried to be moderately subtle about using it until I was in my mid-teens, but it wasn’t really ever a secret. They would have given me some if I had ever shown an interest, but I’m too much of a control freak to enjoy any sort of high, so the limit of my illegal drug use was one joint in college. My brother was a regular user in his teens and twenties, but we’re not close, so I have no idea if he still is. He holds down a job and pays his bills and is a nice guy - good enough for me. I have seen my mom and step-dad smoking with some of my aunts and uncles at family parties.

My mom was horrified last year when I told her that I knew she used coke. Marajuana is one thing, but she never wanted us kids to get into anything hard. They did do a pretty good job hiding that part, but everyone slips up once in awhile, and I wasn’t stupid. FYI - If my brother ever used coke, he hid it well - I’ve never seen any evidence of it. I don’t even know if he knew anything about it, but he isn’t stupid either, so probably.

On the other hand, I was drinking at home or at family events since way before I was legal. As a child, dad would often give me a little of what he was drinking, and by my early- to mid-teens I was free to ask for whatever I’d like if the adults were having something, or we were at a wedding or something. I was trusted to be sensible about it, and I never drank with my friends or got drunk until freshman year of college. There, I discovered that A. yes, being drunk qualifies as one of those non-enjoyable highs (see above), and B. whenever I get drunk, I throw up. After a few of these experiences, I decided to never get drunk again, and ever since I have been just a social drinker. I have a couple of the more tasty drinks when other people around me are drinking, and cut myself off if I start to get tipsy. Not being a terribly social person, I probably have something to drink about once every two months or so.

By the way, my husband, who comes from a fairly socially conservative family, is absolutely horrified by the casual drug use in mine. I’ve told them all, nothing but alcohol around him, and they’ve been pretty good about it.