So I just found out my nephew is a really big stoner (kind of suspected it actually), and has been buying weed in and reselling it to his friends and is toking pretty much every day.
The kicker is that he is very intelligent..straight A's in advanced physics, math and biology, and is pretty much on track to get into M.I.T.
Now, I cant be too critical because at that age I was doing the same thing, and to this day smoke a fair amount of the green sticky stuff, but his parents are most certainly not down with the buying, selling or smoking.
After talking to them, Ive learned that they are planning on dealing with it either by getting him to go to counseling to deal with his "problem", or some kind of scared straight encounter with a friend of theirs that is po-po.
Now, I can think back to me at that age and what my parents did to address my behavior, and nothing worked, and just made me have more of an "F the world" attitude.
Tomorrow I am actually supposed to spend time with said nephew, do I keep my mouth shut and just let his parents deal with it, or step in as the "cool uncle" and tell him there is a right way to party and a wrong way to party ??
The kicker is that he is very intelligent..straight A's in advanced physics, math and biology, and is pretty much on track to get into M.I.T.
Now, I cant be too critical because at that age I was doing the same thing, and to this day smoke a fair amount of the green sticky stuff, but his parents are most certainly not down with the buying, selling or smoking.
After talking to them, Ive learned that they are planning on dealing with it either by getting him to go to counseling to deal with his "problem", or some kind of scared straight encounter with a friend of theirs that is po-po.
Now, I can think back to me at that age and what my parents did to address my behavior, and nothing worked, and just made me have more of an "F the world" attitude.
Tomorrow I am actually supposed to spend time with said nephew, do I keep my mouth shut and just let his parents deal with it, or step in as the "cool uncle" and tell him there is a right way to party and a wrong way to party ??