I really do think this whole approach does make pot more inclusive in some 'underground', fringe mentality in the children's minds, which becomes very real later on. When I was in college, it really WAS just for fun, to sort of stir up things a little in class that I made legalizng pot the subject of my ususal 1st year persuasive speech, for 'Speech 101', or whatever it was called in those days. Hee- boy did I get a reaction, even in those laid back days! You'd think I was arguing to have puppies drowned at birth, Good Grief! It's been so ingrained in societal consciousness that it's now associated with some dark, lurking evil of some kind that it's pretty immovable and this pre-school effort has just been the death knell for the furure. I'm actually pretty resentful that my children's head's were so deliberatle torqued and I'm not even a user these days-just on general principal that they'd use the schools in this way for political purposes. The good news seems to be that the 3 kids who lived through Nancy's plaintiff pleas all view pot rather benignly, with only one ( my free-spirit ) perhaps toking up a storm now and then. "Mom, did you ever?" The answer is always "No". They're not idiots, but I just chose not to be that particular role model. They know. Red ribbon week is here, too- if Ike wears his red ribbon every day he gets a prize. I think they're slipping at his school, too. I only hear about how the policeman let them work the siren, and how cool the free stuff is- not a word on the content. Maybe it's progress. :)
Hee- the same religious faction who feel we as parents are incapable of educating our children about the basic facts of pot are the ones fighting sex-ed in schools. I'm not commenting either way, to be sure, except to say it must be getting a little crowded in there- where are the desks for the children?
