Holy hell! That kid needs his ass whipped. Then to have to stand in front of the court and beg mercy. I wonder if the DA told the man to surrender his dignity at the door?

I loved the comment at the end “Today’s proceedings spared the defendants’ son from having to testify against his parents” meaning that, had the parents fought the charge, the DA wouldn’t have hesitated and force the little bastard to testify.

the ‘descent into the maelstrom’ continues, aided and abetted by blood relatives, indicating the very low level to which this nation has descended.

the soviet homeland is alive, well and metastasized to the u. s., likely a product of the ‘education’ received in the gulags we call ‘schools’.

i wonder if the little snitch knows his potus smoked (s?) tobacco and pot?

this is disgusting.

People trust government more than anybody else – dream of all dictatorships.

However I can imagine situation when kid have a moral obligation to tip police in contrary to cover parent’s crime.

What would you say if that wasn’t a harmless narcotic crime but some kind of a violent crime???

that’s a really excellent answer !!!

This will sound harsh. The kid deserves a life destroyed by CPS. Sadly, the community doesn’t deserve another broken person dependent on an evil system. The only question in my mind is was this kid naturally an egocentric immoral piece of trash, or was it the parents fault? For the record I have never smoked anything at all, much less pot and don’t condone it. But I find any person who would turn in his family repulsive. (unless they are violent of course)

Just because something is prohibited by statute doesn’t mean that it is justifiably to be called a crime. Can you please explain to me in reasonable terms what the crime was in this case.

Ironically, in a libertarian sense, it is the teenager that is the criminal here (and the state, of course)–at least based on the presented information.

What a despicable thing to do to those who have nurtured and cared for you your whole life, and over a victimless and harmless “crime” no less. This is what happens when we let government babysitters brainwash our children day in and day out for years. It boggles the mind that there are people in authority who think this is enlightened and compassionate justice. It makes my blood boil.

But in this concrete example you have to choose – let murder go away or let him to be punished by evil state.

Other option? Close your eyes and imagine you haven’t seen that?

Tip one. Don’t have kids in today’s legal, economic, and cultural environment.

That’s cool, I’ve had many times where my point didn’t come through as I had hoped. However, there is quite a difference between this case and cases of violence or encroachment.

I don’t know anything, but if I were to guess I would say that this whole thing is based upon some sort of disagreement between the parents and the child, that this disagreement was very minor, but that the kid got it into his head that he was going to “really get them back”.

This would not be at all uncommon for a kid his age, and more than likely he has created far more problems for both himself and his parents than he had originally planned.

Teenager’s time preferences are very short, they don’t see the long term, nor do they see the bigger picture in terms of consequences. I don’t think that this family will ever be the same after this, I only hope that they can forgive and recover. Though I don’t think that that is likely.

One cannot simply un-forget things by choice (just as one cannot choose one’s own beliefs), the mind doesn’t allow this. In the act of forgiving, people can only do penance for other’s actions, and this is only deepened by the love had for that other person (esp. if it is your own child or kin). Not everybody has the same will for such things … I would say that most do not.

The only good thing I see are the comments on that article, no one supports it and they mock drug prohibition. It will just be a matter of time before the drug war is history. Or at least part of it.

“When I get out of jail, you are SO grounded!”

I think this is a great lesson to all us parents that we need to teach kids right from the start that family is more important than the state, and you don’t rat out your own. (I mean if cops don’t rat each other out about things like murder, assault, fishing for underage girls on chat rooms, etc. then why should we be turning on our own family?)

Also, we need to be making sure we teach our kids that ‘breaking a law’ is not the same as ‘a crime’

There is only one time it is EVER okay to snitch your parents out – if they are abusing you or another loved one. Period.