Letters to the Editor
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Maybe he should turn her into the cops...
So let me get this straight, the mom is using an illegal substance and trying to take the moral high ground? Gee, I can't imagine why the kid isn't buying it! I will admit that the school system pumps this "drugs are bad" crap a little too much at kids (being of the generation that had the most anti-drug messages thrown at them then any previous generation before it, I know what that's like) but clearly the pot is getting in the way of a real relationship with her son.
I think it is rather telling that she values her friend's opinion more then her own sons. This, as much as the pot, says a lot about where he really stands in her life. I grew up with a mother who married a man who treated me and my sister like crap while growing up. My mother recently started coming to her senses about what kind of person he really was and even then it was only because he started treating her a fraction of the way he treated us. But even today I still don't understand why she turned a blind eye to what was going on all those years. My respect for her is severly diminished, and will probably never fully come back.
If this woman does not get help, she will have a son that will spend the rest of his life resenting her for rejecting him and putting a plant above him on her list of priorities. If she does not change, then her son should turn her into the cops and let her reap the consquences of her actions. I'm sure her namby pamby husband will not stand in the way since he hasn't done anything so far!
I hope this young man can start a brand new life and learn to move on from the pain his mother caused him. He deserves better then he is getting right now.