I never listened to anything my father said, he was a fucking drunk so he may as well have not existed for me. Some damn lush trying to make rules, Ok then, I'll just write those down ......
I gave my kids permission to smoke weed when they were teens. I figured if they were at home with their pot, they wouldn't be out running around becoming crack heads, coke heads, or meth heads. It seemed to work too, they stuck with pot, but their friends who had to hide their pot from their parents are now mostly the aforementioned crack, coke, and meth heads.