As the educational film Half Baked taught us, smoking weed can enhance everything from Al Pacino's performance in Scent of a Woman to the back of a $20 bill, but can it make you a better parent?
In a new essay in Cosmopolitan, one lady writes that she's been getting high, not for fun, but specifically because "marijuana makes me a better mom."
Leo Grover writes that she doesn't even like to smoke weed that much and that she gets paranoid being high around other adults. But when it comes to dealing with her young twins, toking up makes her more attentive, patient and empathetic. She doesn't even care if her daughter takes a leak on the hardwood floor.
It even helps her to see things like a preschooler:
Grover writes that parenting gives her anxiety, and her anxiety drug of choice is weed, which doesn't knock her out like Xanax.
Well, the cookies part certainly makes sense.
So are we cool with this? Obviously, some moms smoke weed and take care of their kids, but it seems like Grover is the one out there actually admitting the benefits, at least as she sees them.
No wonder teens don't think weed is cool anymore.
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