Reply #22: They said no, but dad was lying

[noonwitch]

I know my dad smoked pot. When we were little kids, he would go down by the creek to "light the teenagers' cigarettes", something mom and he would argue about. He said that if he was nice to them, they would leave his kids alone, which did seem to work. The punks were always nice to us, but he was getting high with them. We were not stupid.

When I was about 22, I had Christmas dinner with my dad the first X-mas after he and my mom divorced. He was really drunk, and pulled out a joint and said "look what I have". I told him, cool, light it up, let's party. He wouldn't, because I was his daugher (I knew he wouldn't when I challenged him to do so). He later gave me a hash pipe from India as a gift. He stopped drinking about 10 years ago and would never do such things now.

My mom never drank more than two drinks, and two vodka gimlets make her dizzy. She's never done any drugs that weren't prescribed for her. She is the ultimate codependent, however.