I've heard about this happening other times. usually people being dumb, marijuana isn't always the cause. Same as people forgetting their child when they go to work or the mall in the summer and leaving the child to die suffocating in the heat. Lord have mercy! Doing this
while partying on any intoxicating substance most definitely adds to the culpability. This was completely avoidably by simple responsibility.
Note in the story, the 19 year old mother's boyfriend was arrested when he was going to get beer. Alcohol isn't problematic in and of itself, neither is marijuana. The way they are used and the unadulterated hedonistic, self-pleasure focus of modernity is the greatest problem here.
That said, marijuana
is a drug with significant effects, and needs to be treated with respect. It is one thing for a cancer patient or a chronic pain sufferer to utilize marijuana to ease their suffering, under a doctors care, with a respect and education. It is an entirely different matter for marijuana to be used party aid, or self-prescribed coping mechanism for life.
Having a child requires a level of responsibility. Driving itself requires a level of responsibility.
If one is
partying with beer
or with marijuana, simply with a child
present, and not with a responsible caregiver... Well, no one has a right to abuse or neglect their child. That is a valid reason to remove the rights of the parent. AT LEAST temporarily. Note that when I say partying, I'm not talking about having a beer with dinner.
If one is driving under the influence, regardless of whether they have a child with them or not... Driving is a privilege, not a right. Yea, marijuana intoxication is not conducive to operating heavy machinery any more than being on high doses of opiate medicines is. License can be revoked, fines and jail time can be assessed.
If one is doing both (partying & driving WITH a child).
I only pray the courts make the right decision for the child.
.... What an illogical way of looking at things and all...Marijuana can make you cause a car accident also I do not get it how she can run away with that one either... and if it is not the same a drunk driving it makes me think why it is not?
