<p>emergency room Drs told me you cant OD on marijuana.
( i use medical marijuana for pain from arthritis & fibromyalgia, and i had taken an edible dose that turned out to be stronger than i wanted.
i didnt have good control of my extremities. they just gave me some water and watched me, & told me that absorbing it through food, makes it much stronger which i hadnt realized.
They also told me to use the vaporizer next time!
( i still use edible, but i found a guy who makes cookies which can be easily divided)</p>
<p>i dont think offering it to kids in high school is appropriate, but ive heard of worse.</p>
<p>Wow, guess itâs just me but last I checked smoking pot was still illegal, the same with underage drinking. For those who say that they will be exposed to it at some time, would you feel the same if on these college overnights they all went out shoplifting, or jacking purses? I think itâs putting the prospective college student in a really uncomfortable position, having to make big decisions on the first time visit with a bunch of strangers. I can promise you the administration has no idea this is going on during their recruiting session.</p>
<p>They may be exposed to it, legal or not, but how they respond to it is another story. Our hope was that our kids would be educated about the risks, be able to talk to us about it, and make good decisions. Has worked pretty well so far.</p>
<p>I heard a LOT about drinking parties from one of my kids while still in HS. I had been a bit concerned about his social life, until he told me had in fact been invited to parties with booze, and chose not to attend. I was pretty happy he was honest and eager to talk about it.</p>
<p>Kids are faced with the decision long before senior year in high school, yesâŠbut my kids have not been to an overnight planned by a school that turns a blind eye to illegal activity going on at said event. Even the underage drinking is alarming.</p>
<p>We have had similar situations with our kids. If itâs a party with alcohol or drugs our youngest DS does not go. Thatâs of course easy to do when you live at home. But when you are in a situation at a strange college where you have no choice but to stay in the room with everyone else it seems to make it much more uncomfortable. No matter what your opinion on drinking or pot I still think it is an unfair position to put a visitor in. Itâs why I donât start pouring shots when entertaining my 80 year old teetotalling mother.</p>
<p>. No matter what your opinion on drinking or pot I still think it is an unfair position to put a visitor in</p>
<p>I agree. i find that college students however, especially freshmen/sophomores seem to pride themselves on how much they can rattle their cage.
when we went to older Ds lac on accepted students weekend for example, we ran into a horde of young men who were dressed in suit jackets, boxer shorts & carried martini glasses.
:eek:
i didnt have the heart to tell them that, i grew up in the '70âs, nothing much shocks me.</p>
<p>My D didnt confess to any rude behavior by her host, but a friend whose son visited a year later was disappointed when his son was so insulted by being offered beer during his visit that it turned him off from the school.</p>
<p>My kid got offered weed, and he could have gotten harder drugs if he wanted them, but no alcohol. The proctor made the offer â apparently in the manner someone might offer you some bottled water during a training seminar at work. He also got propositioned outright by a student host, and possibly by a student attendee, but he wasnât sure of the latter, if he had just misread the invitation, âWanna come party with me alone later?â as a regionalism. Oh, and the classes he attended were informative as well.</p>
<p>My son visited Wesleyan on 4/20 deciding where to attend and in honor of national 420 day, the whole dorm seemed to be alight. My son, who had friends in HS who smoked weed regularly, was not offended but did not partake. He said the kids in the dorm were very nice, but it was a very alternative-y dorm, and the whole collection of things â the weed, people wandering around naked on the way to three or four bathrooms for people with different gender identifications, lots of Dead Head types and hipsters â made him choose to go someplace else. One of the posters on CC told us (later) that the dorm where they put my son up was the most alternative-y dorm and going on 4/20 made it the perfect storm.</p>
<p>OP - I think it is the BEST thing that could have happened.</p>
<p>Much better to have that curtain ripped wide open then to commit to a school and not now the âtrueâ personalities of the teammates until after moving in.</p>
<p>*
Wow, guess itâs just me but last I checked smoking pot was still illegal, the same with underage drinking. *</p>
<p>Adults using marijuana responsibly in my state and especially in my city has police less concerned than jaywalking.</p>
<p>As has been pointed out to me, you canât OD on pot.
You canât say that about alcohol. Whole industries have formed around alcohol treatment, alcohol abuse, legal practicesâŠ</p>
<p>I donât think anyone should smoke anything inside. Thatâs just rude. :p</p>
<p>That said, I would be very uncomfortable about an official visit where a high school kid was offered pot and, worse IMO, alcohol. Yeah, there are always going to be college kids who drink and smoke weed, that is a fact of life. But if a kid gets caught with it, that can have very real, negative consequences. Who cares if pot âisnât addictiveâ if having a couple ounces of it means you lose all your scholarships or something, you know? Or if it means you will never have security clearance for a job you want? As others have said, you have to take the long view.</p>
<p>Whether the OPâs daughter smokes pot or not at some point, that is her decision. But it would make me really uncomfortable to know that the team as a whole is blatantly passing around weed and booze, to the extent that it even happens on official visits. Is that the culture of the team? That you donât âhave toâ drink / smoke (but if you donât you will be thought of as a wimp)? The booze in particular alarms me. So many risky behaviors come with overindulging.</p>
<p>Must admit that I am surprised by the number of posters who have reported that their children have experienced these types of âofferingsâ on an official visit. We all know the realities of college life, but one would think that coaches would have laid down the law, and mandated that the team put their best foot forward for the official visits. Wondering if the coaches turn a blind eye because they think the potential candidates expect or would enjoy this type of partying, and thus more likely to entertain the offer? If that is the case, then in relation to the children of the posters on this board, it seems to have backfired.</p>
<p>My son was offered alcohol on an overnight visit with a track team. He was not impressed. That was one of the main reasons he turned down a full-tuition scholarship at the school. He just could not understand why athletes would want to pollute their bodies like that.</p>
<p>Maybe itâs just my particular town or geographical area, but my observation is that this generation is a bit more conservative and sensible than we were at their age. While my teenagers are still in High School, they and their friends show low interest in that type of partying. Plenty of interest in the opposite sex, but drugs and alcohol, not so much.</p>
<p>But we donât have those huge house parties going on that were so popular when I was young. They seem to form smaller groups that occasionally might congregate at someoneâs house, but more often they are out at a movie, concert or school event. Sometimes they just hang in town at the pizzeria or local starbucks.</p>
<p>Many head coaches from top D1 swimming programs prohibit their recruits from drinking and taking illegal drugs while on an official visit. I know this from firsthand experience. Statements requiring them not to drink or take drugs are placed on the final schedule, and the recruits are asked to sign a form at the end of the OV stating that they did not drink or take drugs. I have heard of a case of a team member being disciplined because he drank in front of a recruit during an OV. Does this prevent this kind of thing from happening? No it does not. Does it make this sort of thing a rare occurrence? I think it does. A parent can simply ask the coach what his policy is regarding drinking and drugs and then decide if they will allow their athlete to go on the OV.</p>
