A lot of recovering alcoholics will tell you their first drink was a sip off of daddy's beer. But then I don't know of many crackheads who've never smoked a joint. For a 10 year old kid, this is not all that different between whether you should shoot your kid or drown him in the bathtub. Jesus, what kind of path do you want to put that kid on. Heroin by 14? Prostitution by 16?

I think if I had kids, I'd rather they smoked pot, but that's not meant as an endorsement of either.

Rich