Huffington Magazine Issue 19 | Page 31

Voices criminal arrests and prosecutions, has been well documented. What has largely gone unreported, however, is the extent to which lowincome parents across the country live with the fear—a fear clearly not shared by the well-heeled author of “Pot for Parents”—that they could lose their children to the foster care system if they were as brazen about their pot smoking. These fears are well founded. For poor parents in New York, suspicion of marijuana use will often trigger a visit from F