The Parents Losing Kids Over Weed

If weed makes you a neglectful parent then what does alcohol make you? Because those keg daddies and wine moms are WAY more disastrous to any family unit than any ol weed head. 🌱

Yet drunks have as many kids as they want and it’s a-ok. Legalize don’t stigmatize.

8 fckg months of clean drug tests and they still possibly won’t return her kids??? What more did they want?

Someone is making money off taking these children from their mothers. Our society is driven by profit profit profit.

Y'all remember when they took two kids away from their parents because the parents smoked medical marijuana, and then the foster lady they gave the kids to murdered both the children in cold blood? Not a single person should have their kids taken away for smoking weed. Children should only be taken in abuse and neglect situations. And they do not take kids for not having warm coats. I know a kid on my mom's street who didnt have a coat until my mom gave him one because his parents bought him one "as a christmas present" and weren't going to give it to him until Christmas. We live in Michigan where it gets cold in October.

You are a mom and dad with 3 packs of cigarettes at home or you're a family that got 7 alcohol bottles in your kitchen, the cps does nothing. You got pot at home, they knock at your door ? That's ridiculous and cruel. Support to them, this needs to change.

I would love it if Vice could do follow-ups to these re-uploads. It's been three years. Spend a week interviewing these lawyers and prosecutors again to figure out if society has evolved in a good direction!

I know a situation where a Blk woman got pulled over for speeding & ended up losing her kids & license for DUS. None of her kids tested positive. She had to go to DSS-approved parenting classes in order to get her kids back (they were turned over to her Mom & she couldn't see them unsupervised). DSS would come out and inspect her home as a requirement to get her kids back. Eventually, she was able to get them back but the money for the classes for parenting and drug abuse set her back a lot. And the cost for a lawyer to handle the Simple Possession of Marijuana case further set her back. She was forced to drive while under suspension to provide for her kids and to pay us. Her kids had their hair strands tested. Not a single child tested positive. She ended up getting a 2nd DUS & a DUI 1st (same incident) after falling asleep in her car after working a 10-hr shift and admitting to the officer that she'd smoked weed after getting off work (& just before going to sleep on the side of the road in the car). We tried to help her, but she was never the same after going through the process with DSS and the Courts. She turned to drinking because alcohol is a legal substance that wont cause her to be deprived of her children, whereas the weed would (& did). In contrast to a white-passing Hispanic-American woman I knew whose husband was trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine out of their home. The home was searched (more like raided), and the drugs were found visibly on a table in the proximity of the children in the children's room! Not a single child was taken from her, nor were they tested. To offer her a defense, we planned to argue that she knew nothing concerning her husband's operation. So we offered to drug test her because she assured us she was negative. When tested, she was positive for cocaine and Marijuana. She was 6 months pregnant. Afterwards, she said she got "contact" and that's why she was positive. We then tested her hair. She came back positive again. She was a user. Thankfully she cleaned up after getting away from him and she didn't have to serve a 3 to 7 year sentence for drug trafficking. She's much better off today. But it's ALWAYS a tale of 2 Americas.

My children are my life. I am white, female, highly educated and make a reasonable income. No CPS organization has ever questioned me about my ability to raise my children. I absolutely believe that black and Hispanic parents are targeted about the care of their children. I am treated far differently than minority parents. I believe CPS knows I have the resources to litigate CPS until nobody is left standing. It is so heartbreaking. The amount of money you make doesn’t determine if you are a good parent. When my children were very young we had au pairs to help us take care of the children. My au pair told me about a family that lived in a million dollar mansion. The family actually had 2 au pairs. The parents almost never saw their children. For the life of me, I do not understand why you have children that you basically ignore.

I work in animal welfare and it was hard to see Sara, the mom they featured, clearly breeding pitbulls and keeping them chained outside. I understand it’s possible that it may be her own form of income but people like me have to clean up the messes created by people that intentionally breed their dogs 😞 unwanted litters, mom’s health decline, high risk for reproductive cancers and pyometra, offspring deformities due to improper breeding etc. I wish people could see that by now

Breaks my heart knowing there's kids out there who are being terribly neglected and not being taken seriously by something like cps. But a mom smokes pot and loses her children completely?! Very sad.

I'm hating the old reposts. Could we at least get an update on some of these situations? Too much has happened in the last few years for this to have much truth anymore.

A privilege to buy weed? it’s a plant and it should be everybody’s God-given right to use it as they see fit I’ll never understand how alcohol is legal, but marijuana is not in a lot of states

I’m 26, my mom is a chronic pot head. Thankfully never had cps take me away. I turned out awesome.

Oh geez i thought this was about kids dieing from weed. What is wrong with me? This is way more believable. And absolutely ridiculous.

They took my daughter over weed and literally did the same thing to me wouldn't give her back and it's been 5yrs

Proves what I've been saying for a long time. If you're a cannabis consumer you're automatically discriminated against. Like the attorney said it's been embedded in them that they have negative perception of consumers. They gotta change man.

Whoever came up with the title "Joint Custody" needs a raise 😂

But Elon Musk can keep his and run a billionaire empire??? Let’s be serious here. Stoners are not the problem.

There have been many kids adopted out because of weed. Let that sink in. They will never see their parents. And you heard the child say. I can’t wait till I live here forever. So why traumatize these children and place them in homes with strangers over non abuse non neglect. ?