Are 14 Year Olds Allowed To Go To 420 Because My Friend Is Bringing One?

I would look up the laws on contributing to the delinquency of a minor in your state.  

 

 
Agreed. When you started smoking doesn't mean a fucking thing as far as appropriate age barriers go. Smoking is a right of passage that's achieved through circumstance and persistence. Just like when you're a teenager and want to get drunk with your friends, there is an impulse to always try what's taboo to you. Weed has been that staple societal taboo for about 40/50 years. There is no right, or responsible age. When you find it, is when you find it. There are some who catch on a little sooner, but in my experience those are situations where people either run with a pretty rowdy crowd early on, or they are kind of brought into it through a sibling. I wish like hell I had an older brother to guide me, share in the hobby with me, talk with, and split weed costs with growing up. I'm not sure if picking it up at 13/14 would have made me worse off (I doubt it), but that's a couple more years of knowledge and experience that could have been spent learning to grow, or meeting other people. Youth doesn't necessarily always spell disaster- there's just this societal fixation with restricting the world behind some general age consensus, when we don't all grow according to someone's little age chart. We're individuals, and whenever we stumble into something is when we either adopt or shrug it off. It's not a matter of what's right or wrong; it's a matter of when and how. Your kids are going to find out about it with staggering ease. Not only is it widely accepted now culturally, but being so ingrained to the internet (which is very weed-friendly) only speeds up the process and genuine curiosity. The best you can do is educate them at what you feel is a commendable age, and try to instill values in them.

 

 
 
That's fair, but personally I wouldn't feel comfortable smoking with a 14 year old nor would I feel comfortable risking something like that on my criminal record  

 

 
If you're willing to risk being caught smoking in general, the risk is inherently the same.

 

 
 
My state is decriminalized, possession is just a ticket. I'm having trouble finding the contributing to the delinquency of a minor statute, but one site I was reading says every state has a similar law on the books so it may just be under a different title. Anyhow, it's usually a misdemeanor and like I said, not something I would want on my record.
 
Better safe than sorry, that's how I roll. 

 

Not a bad philosophy to have.