As a parent of a 15-month-old, I was absolutely disgusted with the article about users of synthetic marijuana ("Getting high; not hiding it," Oct. 23). The couple shown with the child on the front page and the others interviewed should have social services monitoring their parenting. The 20-month-old was running in the opposite direction of his parents in the picture while his father was getting high and his pregnant mother was looking on, smiling.
Another man in the article said he wakes up 20 minutes early to get high before his 9-month-old daughter.
What is wrong with society that this is an apparently OK way to raise children? My husband and I went through months of training and checks on our character to be found able to adopt our son. The several people in this article are parents -- and I use that term loosely -- and they show nothing but selfishness, using these synthetic drugs.
Parenting is hard enough without being high every day. The actions of these people disgust me, but what's really horrifying is the effect their actions may have on their children. These children deserve a better life.
Nancy Erkkila
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Duluth
