Confronted by dad

Roll an awesome blunt and smoke it with him

 

Tell him you respect him and his rules but you are going to smoke no matter who says you shouldnt. i did it to my parents, and it takes a while, but now they pretty much don't care

 

Get him to watch The Union. Might help your cause a little bit.

 

well, there's two "easy" ways out of this,
one is to just stop smoking, the other is don't smoke at home or where your dad could get the slightest idea that you might be high, and try not to be high around him.
alternatively, you could try explaining to him that weed is not bad, although this could take a great deal more effort.
if you do decide to explain it to him, the easiest way to go about it is show him The Union. I don't know if you've seen it yourself, but it makes a strong argument about how stupid it really is for pot to be illegal, when in reality there's almost nothing wrong with it (unless you smoke like 10 jays made from printer paper a day for 30 years and you get lung cancer...but thats a different story). But then if he still comes back saying "It's Illegal", all it shows is that he hasn't listened to anything the movie said (or what you tell him, which is probably in the movie), and in this case your only option is to either stop doing weed or continue without telling him.

 

I think he was fair about it.

I think the best thing you can do, is be respectful and not do it in the house, since he's the one paying for it, its good to respect that.

I think he would like knowing that your respectful enough to not do it in the house. Don't tell him your not going to smoke anymore, just let him know that your fine with that, and that you are aware that your smoking is illegal... Yet you keep good grades, and sounded like you were respectful with the confrontation.

Good luck,

I'm just shelling out advice from a pretty similar conversation I had with my parents.

 

my mom flips when she smells it. just do it at friends houses its easy to stop doing it at home. i get real jealous of people i know who can toke up at home whenever. btw i'm 18 also.

 

Just tell him alcohol kills 50 people a day (true), a current or former tobacco smoker dies every 6.5 seconds (true) and noone has died from weed (true, except that dude that had a heart attack from it, but thats one dude in recorded history). Therefore the only question is legality, which you then tell him wont be an issue as long as your not stupid about it.

 

If you're located somewhere you can get it medicinally, get a club card, therefore it's legal and you have a good reason to smoke it.

 

show him "the union: business behind getting high" all questions will be answered and you can google some information that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol

the union: The Union: The Business Behind Getting High | Watch Free Documentary Online

 

Don't smoke at their house... plain and simple. Their house, their rules, you're living under THEIR roof that they supply for you. My parents are the same way.... cept my dad sounds a lil more strict, but I've told both of them I smoke every now and then.... hell when my dad went into surgery and had a 50/50 chance of living .... I told my mom face to face im smoking to sleep cause I wouldn't have been able to (we were at the hospital from like 6 PM till like 4 AM, not fun at all when your dads life is in the line).

Anyway, just respect their rules which it sounds like you're kinda doing, just don't be dumb.

 

If worse comes to worse, tell him you will respect his rules and not smoke or have anything in his house; You will, however, still smoke though. You're grown

 

show him some real comparisons to alcohol. and if your 18 then he should respect your choice as long as its not hurting you

 

His house his rules.

If it was me:

Stop smoking in the house, don't store stash or paraphenalia in the house.

Try to educate him, which will be much easier once you have agreed to his rules. Use websites like NORML or Drug Policy Alliance to show him the truth about MJ. Both those sites list sources for every single claim they make, unlike the anti-MJ sites which rarely use any data and when they do it is so distorted as to be useless...

Move out if it is an option?

 

I had the exact oppisite problem with my dad. He never really cared that I smoked, but he hated me drinking, he kicked me out for a few days when he found out i threw a party when he was gone. Although he did have good reason. At the end of my junior year, one of my good friends (played hockey with him all throughout highschool, our parents are both good friends too), was a senior. We were at a grad party, I left early and went somewhere else. At like 2am they decided to go for a cruise, my friend was driving, he was 3 times the legal limit, doing 80 in a 25, wrapped his car around a tree, and ended up killing the passenger in the front seat (one of my friends), and injuried the two passengers in the back seat... yeah, that was a fucked up way to start the summer.

...i guess this was a little off topic. lol.

 

It's also illegal to distribute alcohol to anyone under the age of 19 (21 in some places), your fathers argument is null. It would be a good idea to not do it in his house since he seems to have a problem with it.

 

If the only problem is legality tell him he lets you drink even though you are only 18, which is illegal too. If he understands everything else you've been saying he can't argue that, but he might make you stop drinking too then, which would be a bummer.

 

Damn, your 18, so hes gotta be like oldish. I can't imagine living my whole life without even just trying it. Open his world up dude, smoke him on a blunt.