"Banty" wrote in message
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Sure, she can teach her kids. I think there are concerns other and above
just
whether or not her girls may actually harvest and smoke the plants. To
have
that kind of activity under the girls' noses normalizes the activity,
whatever
teaching she may want to do. Sure, she should check the laws in her state
(only
11 out of 50 have even tolerated pot for medicinal uses), but the
neighbors are
either woefully ignorant of (IMO more likely by far) purposely
disregarding the
marginal nature of their activity and are counting on neighbors' reticence
in
order to pursue it. A passive stance on their mother's part doesn't
exactly
reinforce a negative message, does it.

If the neighbors are doing something distinctly illegal and immoral in the
OP's view, then the right thing to do is to contact the police. It sounds
like the OP is not convinced the pot growing is either illegal or immoral,
so she doesn't mind if they grow pot. She is concerned about her children
smoking pot. I can guarantee that regardless of how "good" the high school
her children eventually go to, pot will be much easier to get than by
stealing it from the neighbors.

I think your comment on the "marginal nature of their activity" is exactly
the problem. It's not black and white, but a dark shade of grey. If the
neighbors were running a meth lab she'd call the police. If they were
leaving beer in an outdoor deck fridge she'd remind her kids that stealing
anything is bad, and drinking alchohol at their age is bad, and stealing
alchohol from the neighbors and drinking it is really bad. So where on this
scale does growing possible pot plants fall?