I need to make it clear that despite not being a smoker of anything other than hooka/shisha, I am still for marijuana legalisation for social and economic purposes, as the only opposition to this light drug is ideologically conservative.
But this article by Mark Wolfe has me quite concerned regardless. To summarise, the he is a father with legal access to medicinal marijuana, and takes pride in the fact that his interaction with his kids improves drastically when he is high. In short, the quality of his relationship with his kids is vastly improved if at the cost of the authenticity behind that relationship. Its not very often I side with terrified parental backlash.
I supported restraining the truth from grandmother mentioned Practical Wisdom who in her delusions believed that her husband had moved away (in reality he had died). The mad Kantian and prominently liberal case in the matter held that her right to the truth was most important. I side with the author Barry Schwartz saying her she has gained peace of mind through her delusion nor has it hurt anyone else in the process. The key is in the last statement, as I hold authenticity in the case of the pot-smoking parent to be far more important. Wolfe himself might be happier with his relationship with his kids, but in making this decision for himself he is also withholding his kids' right to the truth.
Much like we would find it atrocious to put someone else in Robert Nozick's experience machine, so it is atrocious for Wolfe to create a false image of himself to his kids regardless of whether or not they eventually understand the truth.
