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My dr also told me that she can’t, regardless of her opinion on it but that there was a couple drs in town that could. She doesn’t agree with it anyways but said she can point me in the right direction if I choose that route.

Enfyre said "    Bassman said "    Enfyre said "Many studies have shown that regular cannabis use can impair the brain's ability to produce the motivating "reward chemical" dopamine, which is usually produced during and after pleasurable experiences, such as career or athletic accomplishments.   Basically: produce less of this chemical = feel less pleasure accomplishing tasks.     Study by Californian university followed children from birth up to age of 38, and found that people who smoked more than 4 joints a week were:     More likely to be lower paid and have relationship and behavioral difficulties.     Ended up in a lower social class than their parents.     More prone to be in less skilled, less prestigious jobs and to run into debt.     There's many other negative effects of marijuana, in particular to the developing brains of adolescents, but for sake of brevity I just encourage motivated individuals to research it themselves, I suggest scholar.google.ca     So, referring to recreational use only, not sure why a parent would want to endorse and legitimize it by using it around their kids. Children look at their parents as role models, monkey see monkey do, even certain smells coming from their parents activities(such as pot) can imprint into a child's mind and subconsciously be a comforting familiarity throughout their later lives. " https://hightimes.com/health/science/update-the-latest-research-about-cannabis-and-the-brain/     https://hightimes.com/health/science/study-cannabis-reverses-aging-processes-in-brain/     https://hightimes.com/health/science/new-study-alcohol-not-weed-manipulates-brain-structure/     https://hightimes.com/health/science/problem-studies-marijuana-learning/ " The first one is a study on mice, which doesnt always extrapolate to humans     Second confirms that pot doesnt shrink brains. Ok that's good     Third confirms pot doesnt change physical structure of brains. Ok that's good too.     The fourth says that when a city in the Netherlands banned pot-shops from selling to foreign nationals, the percentage of foreign students passing their exams increased from 73.9 percent to 77.9, then it goes on a speculative ramble on other possible reasons for this.     All these are from a marijuana publication that will of course have an biased agenda, and not contradict what I wrote. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/18/scientists-have-found-that-smoking-weed-does-not-make-you-stupid-after-all/  
 
We can post links back and fourth all day. Here you go.  
 
You call High Times biased but you copy/pasted your information and didn't i:nclude the original source material...

Care to elaborate on why it's wrong?

What I gathered from the next link is marijuanas effect on IQ is inconclusive, with different researchers presenting conflicting evidence. I never mentioned effect on intelligence though, and dont have a stance on it, just let science speak for itself.  
 
Go to Google.scholar.ca type "marijuana" "dopamine" that will keep you busy for a few hours.  
 
As for the California University study I took excerpts from here:  
 
The California university study.  
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/publish/news/newsroom/10874. There's a PDF for the actual study in there

I am speaking from personal experience.  
Although I never smoked the stuff in high school, I was a terrible student with mediocre grades.  
I recently had to take a couple courses for my well paying job, and got excellent grades.  
I know of many, many very successful people with well paying jobs who smoke. And they're still married to their spouses.  
So, forgive me if I feel the research you quoted is flawed.

RC123 said "I was under the impression that local doctors can’t prescribe it not because they won’t but because they can’t. "

what they personally told me. Dead against prescribing weed. I know my own physician won't prescribe.  
 
Ever go to a walk in and see the sign about no prescribing narcotics? Next year they will change the sign to add MM.

I also know people who smoke pot and have good jobs. Other people I know claim it calms them and helps them focus, its suggested that could be of benefit to some people with ADHD, ADD type issues, perhaps even resulting in better grades, but that's just a small subset population.  
 
Yourself and the people you know represents a small sample population and are purely anecdotal, no broad averages can be viewed at a personal level. Proper studies negate this issue by using a very large sample population, hundreds, ideally thousands of people to form statistical averages.  
 
From a personal prospective, we also don't know exactly how much they smoke, a motivated person with a great job and family life could smoke half a joint every second saturday night and self-identify as a pot-smoker, being equally lumped in with people who smoke quarter-ounce a day and never left their parents basement. During proper studies usuage data is also taken into account.  
 
I don't have an anti-weed agenda or anything, it's just that it seems like users are mindlessly parroting this same mantra that (recreational) marijuana is 110% safe with no harmful effects whatsoever, even for influencing usage around children, whereas in contradiction the science is saying that all drugs have at least some unwanted side effects, long term effects, and that marijuana is no exception.

Why would doctors be on board when they get no kickback from it? Let’s just keep prescribing all these other drugs that the pharmaceutical companies say are ok but yet watch the news and so many are dying and the main cause is prescribed medication

weekend123 said "Why would doctors be on board when they get no kickback from it? Let’s just keep prescribing all these other drugs that the pharmaceutical companies say are ok but yet watch the news and so many are dying and the main cause is prescribed medication "

I will continue taking my pharmaceutical medications prescribed by my Dr(s). I've become rather fond of staying alive! Deaths from pharmaceutical meds are largely caused by misuse.  
To get back on the original topic my personal opinion is that taking anything that is mind or mood altering, with children in your care isn't right regardless of it being "socially acceptable".

The pres:cription my family member was on was extremely mood altering. It was extremely addictive and coming off of it was terrible. Marijuana has replaced it with next to no side effects. His doctor was not on board and still doesn’t believe it is working. The specialist was very impressed and wanted to know more! My other family members doctor was on board but couldn’t prescribe it. She was happy that he got it and got off the pres:cription drugs. I have seen first hand how it can be beneficial. I was anti-pot before but not now. My child is around both of these family members often. I do plan on giving it a try myself when it becomes legal although not in the form of a joint. I don’t want to encourage smoking of any kind to my child.

weekend123 said "Why would doctors be on board when they get no kickback from it? Let’s just keep prescribing all these other drugs that the pharmaceutical companies say are ok but yet watch the news and so many are dying and the main cause is prescribed medication "

I don't think that's why the docs don't want to prescribe MM.  
 
Can you imagine a new patient going for a meet and greet with a doctor and they can't put their thoughts together because they're high? lol, sorry but anyone I know that smokes weed are like that, can't even follow a conversation.

Parenting is so subjective when viewed through someone else's eyes, then judged when comparatively brought up against their own beliefs/standards. I, myself can be guilty on doing so almost on a daily basis. "Geez, look how they talk to their kids. How many times do they feed them junk food in a week? Gawd, they do and give everything to that kid. Wow, they smoke! (tobacco/weed)" And I could go on and on. Pot has been around for generations and from what I've experienced/witnessed/understood about it that it's all about proper knowledge and behavior. Like so many other influences and physical interaction that could deemed as "bad parenting", too much, too soon, too lax can be a negative aspect to a child's development. The problem is, we as a society often have those commitments who go to extremes. Like with the "Anti-vaxers" saga, the internet is filled with conflicting facts from the extremists for the public to view and often enough... Fear has won over logic because the public became confused with what's true and what's not. I don't know enough about the long term effects on the usage or the effects of children growing up surrounded by the influence of weed and it's second hand smoke. I don't fear it, but I have reservations of it. As far as I'm concerned about marijuana... It won't be in my house anytime soon. For what reason? ...OUR REASON AND NO ONE ELSE'S. And that's how I look at it. They're your kids, raise them on your beliefs, ideals and lifestyle. ...But don't put the blame on someone/something else when your kid has problems later in life. That's all I'm going to ask for you as a parent. If Billy gets suspended from school for bullying and/or bad mouthing?... The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Try looking at what's happening at home first before redirecting accusations immediately at others or the school division. Tommy turns into a little "chub chub" with high blood pressure and Tammy has social insecurities of body image from you taking them through the drive more than once a week and letting them sit on their @$$ staring at the screens all day... That's on you for making them that way and shorting the life expectancy, not societies or the restaurants fault. If Sally turns into a extremely selfish diva or Billy has no motivation to do anything on his own, because you gave them everything you had, plus everything you didn't have as a kid... You're the one that conditioned them to be remaining dependent and self entitled. We shouldn't have to feel bad for them, give them a break or make the exception for them as a society on the reason that you enabled these "pampered people" to not except our reality of the real world. And if you smoke tobacco or pot in front of or around your kid(s)... Don't be surprise they've developed the liking of it and wanting to mimic you. You've influenced them simply by showing the example with your lifestyle, which has always been their lifestyle. They didn't choose. You've chosen for them at a subconscious level. That's something we do every day as a parent without sometimes even knowing it. Our habits will become theirs, good or bad. What's worse is the fact that sometimes we know about it and that it could affect our kids in both and expected and unexpected ways, but choose to ignore any aspect of it. That willingly to do something without considering any outcome towards the well being of your kid is "bad parenting". And we all need to own-up to it if and when negativity come from our actions/in-actions. ...Not blame others and play a victim game.  
 
We all know smoking is bad from decades of study and the information about pot is still classified as still as a "study in progress". But we should look at the facts we already know... The brain is still developing until around the age of twenty-one to twenty-three. Ingestion of chemicals in gaseous or solid particle form through by inhaling has been proven damaging over time, even if it's only indirect smoke from burning something (like second hand smoke). What you do as a adult and/or guardian directly or indirectly around children can/will affect them. ...Seems like a "no brainer" to me already, to keep the air clear and possible bad influences out-of-sight. But then, I don't want or need to use pot for any purposes anymore (not since my early twenties, way before my kids came to be). I don't have a reason to smoke pot, but others may and I respect it as long it's within the law. And by next summer, anyone can "enjoy it" with much less legal consequences. And since there hasn't been any additional laws passed on the restrictions around children for next summer, I guess it's alright to do it in their presence for now.  
 
Like I said before, I'm not going to be doing it in my home, nor anyone else will have that option. We have the choice to not have it done around my family & I, while others will have the same rights to smoke openly in presence of others. ...Including children. But since they'll not my kids... I don't care what others do with their kid(s). Talk to them whatever and however. Fatten them up, spoil them rotten and keep them in a bubble... Do what's within the law that makes you feel is right. Hey, it's your kid and your life, have at it! But don't expect us to think any different of you (either respect or not respect), or have my kid want to associate with yours, or give any support or sympathy towards you as a parent if you are, in any way, the cause to their harm or outcome. I have the right to judge you after the fact from what I see from your kid(s). ...Just like you would of towards me with mine.  
 
Puff away in front or with them. Maybe you'll damage them in ways you can't imagine. ...Maybe you won't. Either way it's not my kid, so it's not my problem to worry about or deal with. We'll see the outcome when they're in their twenties and compare the results at a later date. Sound fair???  
 
Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

JB480 said "    Johnbisonbear said "    weekend123 said "Why would doctors be on board when they get no kickback from it? Let’s just keep prescribing all these other drugs that the pharmaceutical companies say are ok but yet watch the news and so many are dying and the main cause is prescribed medication " I don't think that's why the docs don't want to prescribe MM.     Can you imagine a new patient going for a meet and greet with a doctor and they can't put their thoughts together because they're high? lol, sorry but anyone I know that smokes weed are like that, can't even follow a conversation. " I partake, I know others that partake.     sounds like you just spend too much time around losers and natural stupidity.   some people are naturally stupid, it doesn't help them to be sedated.     I've spent a fair amount of time around children with FAS, and when they smoke marijuana it is an obvious change in the way you described.     But your average Joe who decides to light up usually doesn't become a half functioning droolbot. "

well some of them are neighbours and some are family that I don't care to know too well but for sure I'm not hanging around with them!  
 
I better search for a better class of MJ users.

Enfyre said "What I gathered from the next link is marijuanas effect on IQ is inconclusive, with different researchers presenting conflicting evidence. I never mentioned effect on intelligence though, and dont have a stance on it, just let science speak for itself.     Go to Google.scholar.ca type "marijuana" "dopamine" that will keep you busy for a few hours.     As for the California University study I took excerpts from here:     The California university study.   http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/publish/news/newsroom/10874. There's a PDF for the actual study in there "

I do plan on reading this when I have time. Thanks for the link.

I don't feel it is right to be impaired by alcohol or drugs to the point that you cannot get your children to medical attention in an urgency situation that does not require an ambulance.  
 
In my personal opinion marijuana and alcohol are much the same, both are suppressants and could fall under basically the same rules. In smoking marijuana in the home with children present and more so even with more than one smoker the children are GOING to be inhaling the second hand smoke no different than cigarette smoke. This to me means that the children will be in a position to receive a contact high at any age which I do not believe is healthy in any way.  
 
When it comes to chemical drugs Meth, Crack,... in my opinion should never be used around children. There is just a way to much risk of something happening and the children being harmed physically or emotionally.