The damaging impact of a parent’s drug or alcohol use on their children has been well-documented in studies and memoirs. I know how harmful substances can be to family life, but to take the edge off the hard tasks of mothering, I’ve often used caffeine, alcohol and, more recently, weed. The legalisation of marijuana and the normalisation of its use where I live in Washington, … [Read more...] about Smoking weed was an escape from the grind of motherhood. Then my son intervened