I'm sure you've all seen this story about two teenaged boys who taught a two-year-old and a five-year-old how to smoke pot.

I saw this news story last night while my beloved and I were making tacos and discussing the little angel's day.  (She had a good one, but as usual when she has a good one at school, she falls apart when she gets home. I've been told this is quite normal, so we send her to annoy the cat.)  I nearly dropped food on the kitchen floor. 

I don't know where to begin. 

We all fear our teenaged kids will discover pot.  I actually anticipate this happening. I've seen that commercial where the parents practice role-playing how their daughter will scream at them and slam the door when they tell her not to toke up with her friends.  I've heard of colleagues who got the call from school when their children's stash was discovered. Or whatever.  And really, though I don't approve, I do think teenagers are going to be just a new brand of challenging, whether it's pot or alcohol or steroids or extreme dieting or really just skateboards.  But teenagers, though still children, have grown a little closer to developing their brain cells more fully and are usually at their adult height.

Two-year-olds and five-year-olds are not.  No toddler walks down the halls at daycare and thinks about how he can sneak a smoke on the potty chair.  No five-year-old wants to resist authority to the point of buying a dime bag.  This situation involved teenagers - those very challenging teenagers - using their own bad judgment to the detriment of somebody else.  And they don't even probably realize just how wrong and scary it was.  I'm sure they don't realize that every parent in America almost threw the fuck up when he or she saw that news clip, because we, as adults, realize just how goddamn fucking stupid that decision was - that decision that was obviously made more than once, because those little children inhaled without any encouragement or coaching.

They were apparently charged with a third-degree felony.  My beloved and I both say lock them up.  For the most part, I don't believe in criminalizing marijuana for personal use.  I don't believe in giving a small-time drug offender a worse sentence than a rapist.  But any time someone fucks with a two-year-old and a five-year-old, they should be given a very stiff sentence.  They need some time, in a very small, very dark, very stinky room to sit and think about how they very well could have ruined some young child's brain, some young child who trusted them.

I am disgusted.