In A Quandary.

[melv16]

My neighbours 16yr old son was in their garden shed this afternoon.  He had 2 mates with him and they were smoking weed.

Do I tell his mother?

Say nothing?

Have a word with him?

Have a word with his 18yr old brother.

My worry is I might get repercussions from him; (vandalised property,  car or threats to me and my partner.)

[Countrylover]

But Melv I get the feeling you want to get involved.  

[davebro3]

He just wouldn't let it lie!

[Redhelen72]

If my neighbour had grassed me up to my mother for smoking as a 16 year old, she would have been polite to their face.

Totally lost it once the door was shut gone ape about busybodies learning to mind their own business then lost her sheet on me!

If you approach the child - any trust they had in you as an adult will be gone

[melv16]

May I remind the detractors on this link that cannabis is illegal and could lead to mental illness (psychosis), and bring them into contact with dealers who want to get them onto something 'harder'.

99% of class 1 addicts started on weed!

[davebro3]

OK - tell the kid. tell the parents, tell the police. Let's have it all out in the open & see where that leads!

[pastafreak]

Yes, but how many weed smokers end up as class 1 addicts?

Maybe take an AB poll?

[Countrylover]

But that's no reason for a neighbour to interfere.  As others have said the parents may well be aware.  Youngsters don't usually get up to mischief in their home environment.  

[Atheist]

100% of class 1 addicts started on milk.

 

[Countrylover]

Very few Pasta.  How many  kids who stole from sweet shops ended up as bank robbers!?  I would point out I never tried drugs or stole sweets. ;0)

[Atheist]

Well said, Pasta.

I started on milk, went on to soft solids, drifted into hard solids, was fined for drinking alcohol a week before my eighteenth birthday, found and became physically addicted to nicotine, then marijuana, the occasional line of coke.

I gave up cigarettes a year ago by using nicotine pouches (much lower nicotine level than cigarettes). Gave up marijuana 20 years ago with no withdrawal symptoms. Still hooked on hard and soft solids, including wine. Never touched a hard drug.

[Countrylover]

My son admitted he tried canabis when he was young.  But cannabis in cakes because he never smoked!

[davebro3]

Is there a local facebook page you could post it on?

"Little Jimmy at no. 10 is smoking weed in the shed with his mates."

[ladybirder]

I was grateful when the neighbour across the road from us told me she had seen my daughter smoking in the front bedroom.

[melv16]

Davebro....grow up...

[Atheist]

Eating cannabis is dodgy. Smoking cannabis gives you an instant high, so you know when you've had enough. Eating it, like drinking alcohol, takes time to kick in, and makes it easy to overdo it.

[Atheist]

ladybirder: Smoking what?

[Countrylover]

Atheist, he never ate another cannabis cake.  He was just curious.  I don't think he even finished that cake!

[Redhelen72]

look they are your neighbours - how well do you know them?

If you are great friends spend every spare minute drinking tea etc then sure mention it.

If you barely pass the time of day - i really would stay out of it.

[Countrylover]

LB   Why would a neighbour be looking into your windows?  I would have asked her that question.  

[anneasquith]

He's 16 years old, a decent kid ? Don't spoil his socialising with his friends, they could be doing much worse.
all part of growing up .