When my step son owned up to smoking pot (he was caught at school - in DRIVERS ED) we started drug testing him. He was driving our car to and from school and work. If he tested postive, he lost the car. We were worried about it leading to other more serious drugs... I now have a 12 year old and will follow the same rules. I'm hoping we can get through the teen years without to many issues with drugs (fingers crossed)

Hi. im actually the 15 year old daughter to this person replying to you :)

a LOT of kids nowdays smoke regularly. about 50% of my town, maybe more, of the highschoolers anyway. Just give im a taste of failure. send him to somewhere like afc or iss (special school) for a week and it might help. also, tell him the people who say it is healthy and not addicting are total liars. it works with a lot of kids here. :)
peer pressure, too. thats a major factor. tell him to make up some excuse to leave if he does not want to go with them. are in return for him quitting make sure to reward him by going somewhere with him or whatever, and sign him up for a new hobby if you can. something he WANTS to do.

Hi!
This goes out to the very last response what exactly are the special school abbreviations in your post/

Thanks

Hello, my name is Vivian. I am 19 years old. I will be 20 in two months... not that I'm looking forward to it, I really enjoy my youth.

Anyways, I am an avid pot smoker. I smoke every day, about 1-3 times a day. I mean, occasionally there will be days I don't smoke, but it is rare because I like my smoking time. It is my "me" time. Aside from my two jobs, I go to community college and it is my plan to transfer to a university within two semesters worth of time. Last semester, I received a 3.6 GPA. And that's with slacking off... like smoking weed before class, in between class, after class, because I felt it made my day more interesting and whatnot. But I will admit it would make me zone out and not focus at times. So I try not to go to class high. Other than that, I enjoy my marijuana.

It is legal for me to smoke marijuana because I live in California and I have a recommendation from my doctor that permits me to smoking weed. Marijuana is gradually becoming legal throughout the United States and it is very exciting to witness.

As for your son, or any son who is smoking weed at age 15, I would advise him to wait... I started smoking when I was 17 (junior year), but I didn't start smoking every day until the end of senior year and the summer after I graduated. If your son doesn't want to stop, ask him to cut down to only smoking every so often (like maybe, just weekends). He doesn't need to be getting high every day, (or at all, at his age) he should be being a kid! There's nothing you can really say to him, except, don't smoke so much because it will rob him of his ambition. Not every one is like me, I understand that. Some people will let it take over their lives and won't move forward. And some will use it as a gateway drug, as others wont. Myself, I have never tried another drug other than cannabis. (Okay, I've tried salvia, but it is actually legal! And salvia is way more intense than weed!!! But that's a whole 'nother story.)

Moral of the story though: Don't start smoking at 15!!! Attention, if you are 15 and reading this, please wait. It is much more fun when you are older. Enjoy being a kid. Do not do it to be cool. You are cool already. Find better friends. Just be yourself. I promise

Looks like there's a few here. My son to smokes pretty regular. All his friends do and just from looking at them you would never know they did. I used to think my son was safe hanging around a cops kid when he was 12... Wrong, thats where my son started smoking it was the cops kid had it all the time. Go figure.. He's 17 now and still smokes. I am starting to find out that pot is safer than drinking. I am not at all condoning it but it's seemingly now sweeping the nation now that more and more states are making it legal.