Not pot specific but this one goes out to all the people who claim prohibition of drugs in general causes most of the social ills caused by drug use. These people have either never met a drug user or simply don’t care about the people, like children, who are forced to be in contact with them.

From ABC affiliate WWSB:

PUNTA GORDA, FL. – Charlotte County Sheriff’s Major Crimes detectives have arrested 34-year-old David Steven Weaver Jr. on a charge of Aggravated Child Abuse.

Weaver was arrested Mar. 25 by CCSO Narcotics detectives after they raided his home and found a Methamphetamine lab. The Department of Children and Families notified the CCSO that a urine test was conducted on Weaver’s 3-year-old son and it tested positive for Amphetamines, Opiates, and Ecstasy.

Narcotics detectives made an undercover meth purchase at Weaver’s home on Mar. 11.  Then on Mar. 25 executed a search warrant for Weaver’s home on Alan Boulevard, and on Gewant Boulevard, both  in the Charlottes Ranchettes area east of Punta Gorda.  The meth lab was in a large garage building on the property at the rear of his home.

The DCF investigation revealed that Weaver had taken the child into the meth lab, where he manufactured Methamphetamines. MCU detectives met with the child’s mother who said on or about Feb. 15, Weaver took the boy into the garage and called her to come get their son because he couldn’t get any work done. The mother went to the garage and when she opened the door, smelled a very strong odor of Ammonia emitting from the area where the boy was located. The mother took the child out into fresh air and away from the garage. She said later that night the child was coughing.

So decriminalizing drug use would stop this how? And when the state starts to have to care for more addicts who aren’t being forced into treatment so they can stay addicted until they die how does that not effect the rest of us taxpayers?

h/t Trench

At 17, Desiree Sandner is pregnant with her fourth child. Aside from getting pregnant Desiree has another hobby, smoking pot. Unfortunately this has led to two of her children being taken from her already, and now the third likely will after Dallas police stopped the pot-packing prego as she was driving around with her child in an unrestrained car seat while smoking pot.

 DALLAS (CBS 11 News) ― A 17-year-old faces charges of endangering a child by smoking marijuana in a very confined space.

Dallas police told paramedics to take the teen’s 6-month-old to Children’s Medical Center for a medical evaluation. As of 9 p.m.,there was word yet if doctors found drugs in the baby’s system.

Desiree Sandner just turned 17 a few weeks ago. Test results for her son Isaiah aren’t back yet.

DPD’s crime response team arrested her in her car just as she arrived back home.

Child Protective Services would not say if the infant was in state custody or if he is with relatives.

According to reports, officers Sandner placed “… a lit marijuana cigar on the front passenger floor board of the vehicle …” and that they “…smelled a strong odor of freshly burnt marijuana coming from the vehicle.”

The 6-month-old was laying in a baby carrier in the back seat, officers noted and was not secured by a seatbelt.

No one at Sandner’s house wanted to comment.

Police not CPS had previously removed Sandner’s two other children. When Sandner was brought to jail on Tuesday, officials discovered she is pregnant again.

“Tests revealed that she is pregnant and that’s going to have to be worked out between her and Child Protective Services as to how she is endangering the lives of her children, not only the little boy already born, but the unborn child as well,” said Dallas Police Sr. Cpl. Janice Crowther.

Off topic but whoever filed the above story must like the weed too. Either that or he should sue every English teacher he ever had.

But the real victims here aren’t just the children of Desiree, it’s you and me. We’re taking care of her babies because she won’t stop getting high and acting stupid. While she has her “harmless fun” everyone else suffers financially and in her children’s case emotionally and perhaps physiologically.  This isn’t a victimless crime, and sans her drug abuse this story would never happen.

h/t Trench, who basically wrote this post for me!

I know what you’re thinking. You know plenty of sober people who sit on their ass all day not feeding their dogs until one is a skeleton and can’t be bothered to find an ashtray so they use their child’s nose. Drug use couldn’t possibly be the reason for this sort of bizarre behavior right?

Jennifer Lytton of Statesville was arrested at her home early Tuesday afternoon, and in addition to the assault charge, may now family animal cruelty charges as well.

Hamby said the girl told a teacher at her school that her mother put a cigarette out on her nose, burning her nose.

The teacher noticed the mark on the girl’s nose and asked her how it happened, and that’s when she told about the cigarette.

Hamby began an investigation and took out the warrant on Lytton. The sheriff’s office warrant squad went out to look for Lytton Tuesday morning but she wasn’t located.

On Tuesday afternoon, Warrant Squad Deputy Chris Snow went back out to the residence, and knocked on the door, but didn’t get an answer. Neighbors told Snow he needed to check on the condition of some dogs in the back yard, Hamby said.

Snow checked on the dogs, and found one dog skeleton with a collar attached and two emaciated dogs in the yard, Hamby said. Snow called the Iredell County Animal Services and an officer came and took possession of the two dogs and the skeleton.

Hamby said a warrant was obtained to make sure no other animals were in the house, and after going into the house, found Lytton hiding in a closet. A bag of marijuana was also found, he said.

Lytton was arrested on the original assault warrant and then cited for the marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

She puts a cigarette out on her child’s nose, has a dog skeleton with the collar still on it in her backyard and was hiding in the closet when the police came around. Yeah, that’s not the drugs.

Before anyone claims sober people do the same thing I say, name three.

h/t Dreamin’ Demon who can’t figure out why this woman is so stupid and lazy. ‘Tis a mystery to be sure.

Except for his long history of assault and thievery. Oh and allowing someone to get his 14-month-old baby so high the kid didn’t react to being given needles in the emergency room, which is where the baby and father of the year ended up. But hey, if we legalize pot then this wouldn’t have happened right guys?

There are people who act as if decriminalization will simply end the problems with drug use, ignoring the fact that drug use often is in and of itself a problem that burdens society. No change in drug policy should be considered until we have an educational program that clearly outlines the truth about substance abuse, it is never harmless. It especially isn’t harmless when the user is a parent.

WOIA has a news report. Video from Breitbart.