No more than having a glass of wine at dinner. Moderation is key with alcohol and other drug use when you are a parent. Plus, it depends on whether you are alone with the kids or if there is another sober adult in the home. If the parents can keep the child healthy, safe, and well cared-for, I don't see a problem with it.

Generally not. However if smoking weed takes priority over raising the kids, then, yes.

Sometimes being a little baked helps with a person's ability to keep listening to some of the dumb shit kids say. I imagine is also helps assuage the guilt that they, the parent, are responsible for every bit of suffering that young life will have to endure throughout it's run. If the parent hadn't had the kid in the first place, no suffering would have ever befallen it.

It doesn't make you bad. It make you human.

JK

My mother (R.I.P) smoked weed and she was a decent parent. I say decent because she had issues with her own mother, mental and physical abuse as a child, and she never truly recovered from it mentally otherwise she did her best and that is what is important.

I don't think it makes for a bad parent as long as their kids are takin care of (mentally, physically, financially, etc). As long as it doesn't prevent the parent from finding and keeping a job and from providing a safe place to live, then I don't see a problem with it. I have a problem with the people who can't maintain a job and can't provide for their children because all they want to do is smoke pot. I do think weed should be legalized. Theres more and more studies showing the benefits of weed.

No, but lying to kids about the harmful effects of marijuana does.

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As long as you're not puffing in front of them giving a contact high, taking care of them while you're stoned. Then no, Saul Goodman.

Just don't smoke and drive.

Does drinking alcohol, eating junk food, and gambling etc. make for a bad parent. Anything that is excessive and alters the lifestyle in a negative way is bad for and as a parent.

Moderation and common sense go a long way in good parenting. Smoking has a negative impact on children so precautions are called for.

My first concern with weed is that it is illegal. Until and unless that changes, I would not be involved with someone who used it regularly, because something I need from my partner is reliability. If they were to be prosecuted for using weed, they can't be reliably present. Children need even more reliability than I do.

A parent should not smoke the stuff around their children, any more than tobacco. Children's minds continue to develop until age 25, and they do not need any kind of substances altering their ability to develop.

I do believe it should be decriminalized - the war on drugs has failed. But if you need to smoke every day, move to state where that is legal, rather than risking custody of your kids or your ability to be present due to a screwed-up legal system that would rather incarcerate a dope smoker than a rapist.

Absolutely not

There are many who use weed to lessen the effects of opiate withdrawal. That isn’t the reason I use it but in the United States we are on pace to have 68,000 opiate overdose deaths in 1 year, half of all kids in foster care are there because of opiate addicted parents. Weed is the least of my concern when it comes to ones ability to effectively parent.