Originally Posted by Blackcat31:
In my state medical marijuana is legal but smoking it is not.
Those that use it medicinally use it in alternative methods that do not include smoking it.
If I smelled marijuana on a DCK and suspected the parent was smoking, as a mandated reporter I would HAVE to report.
My personal feelings about it one way or another play no role in state licensing requirements for mandated reporter.
Smoking cigarettes in a vehicle WITH a child is also illegal in my state.
But would a parent smoking marijuana be abuse or neglect to a child?
Even if they werent smoking inside the car with the child, that smell takes up a whole house and gets into everything. I dont do daycare in my home, but my home is a twin home and we are attached by the garage. The neighbor smokes marijuana in his garage. I can smell it INSIDE my car! Its aweful. Im glad im moving soon.