What a goof! Teen mom leaves baby on car roof

How you can say that this is a reason Marijuana shouldn't be legalized is beyond me. If it was Pot, what if it was alcohol that made her do this? What would your argument be then. Alcohol is a legal addictive and more dangerous than marijuana is. However because there is money to be made politicians won't say the two are the same.

This is a tragic story, and shouldn't be used as a tool to show how bad marijuana is. I think she deserves her punishment. And think she is an unfit mother, just like any mother who is an alcoholic is unfit as well.

That's not an argument for the criminalization of marijuana, it's an argument for the licensing of parenting. If marijuana was legal, she could have gone to the nearest pot drive through and picked some up without ever having to take her baby out of her car.
She should still kill herself to prevent her from passing on anymore genes.

That las paragraph should have been left out of the story. It is very ignorant. Clearly the author knows nothing about marijuana. People should not write about things they clearly do not understand. The mother is irresponsible to take care of a child. END OF STORY!

The fact that we have decided to blame the marijuana on this and turn this into a legal/illegal debate is just beyond me. I hate to speculate but I have to imagine if they were both at the park smoking pot and then headed to the beer store she had likely consumed her fair share of alcohol too, why don't we just criminalize the use of alcohol to even the playing field!?! Really here people this is a very irresponsible teenager being a teenager, the fact that she has a child to care for at this age I find deeply disturbing but if there is legal action to be taken it is against her, not anything she consumed. Also maybe her parents for not teaching her the importance of using protection before this baby was conceived. In a perfect world I think Jeff had it right, we should be testing and licensing parents before they are allowed to make babies.

Yeah this has nothing to do with Marijuana. She is a total idiot and i believe she doesnt give a sh*t about her baby stoned or not. I know ALOT of people that smoke that and they have never done anything remotely that irresponsible. This is HER fault she should never get that kid back and probably be sterelized so she never has kids again. Marijuana doesnt make a bad parent. She was already one.

I think there are a few things we have to look at here:
#1. While this story is about a baby falling off a car, it has nothing to do with cars at all, so why is an auto author writing it?
#2. The author left his breakfast on his car assumedly sober (hey, it happens)
#3. This chick is the epitome of a bad mother, not a pothead. Especially living in Canada, the author should acknowledge the prevalent use of marijuana... EVEN BY PROFESSIONALS. Sure, you might be able to look at a sketch bag and assume they smoke pot, but you cannot, CANNOT, point to every person who does it. Why? Because some people are just responsible. They don't leave babies on cars, they don't laugh hysterically at everything, they do not operate motor vehicles while stoned, etc.

This is a disappointing, inaccurate generalization of people who smoke weed. The bias presented in this article makes it not only look and sound like an amateur wrote it, but also a very preachy attempt at throwing in the "hidden message" where it was inappropriate and invalid.

The guy is driving drunk with a baby in the car, but it's marijuana's fault. This is almost as preposterous as the "reefer madness" propaganda of the 1930's. Get real, dude.

If this were caused by alcohol, would this article end with "yet again we have ample proof why Alcohol should be illegal"?
Like what kind of shit is that?

Oh come on, how could you all say that marijuana is in no way responsible? Yes, the mother was totally at fault and yes she had been drinking too. To say that marijuana was not part of the reason that she "spaced out" about the fact she had a baby, and that, um,hello she forgot to put the baby in the car, well then you must be all pot smokers yourself to try to justify that pot smoking wouldn't cause her to do this. Whatever, go smoke another bowl.

This is clearly one of the most irresponsible mothers. She does drugs, she gets drunk, she's obviously with a looser boyfriend, has looser pot-head friends. Because of the sheer stupidity of the mother in leaving the baby unattended, the baby boy was taken to child services. Hopefully he will have a better chance in life now that he's not with this woman. This teen mom should have her uterus removed.

As the saying goes, guns don't kill people, people kill people. Its the same idea for alcohol or weed. Its not the alcohol or the weed that's the problem. It's what people choose do when they're drunk or stoned. Parents shouldn't be drunk or high around their children, that's a given. Thankfully the baby is ok, that's what really matters. The mom will be paying the price for her mistake for the rest of her life.

Ignoramus making claims about marijuana that he doesn't jack about. Go illegalize alcohol and coffee and cigarettes while you're at it, preacher boy.

This comment summed it up perfectly.

"The guy is driving drunk with a baby in the car, but it's marijuana's fault. This is almost as preposterous as the "reefer madness" propaganda of the 1930's. Get real, dude."

You're an idiot, David.

I agree with the comment about marijuana and alcohol . Alcohol is way more dangerous than weed will ever be .

So by the writers logic drinking shouldn't be legal either because people get drunk and do stupid things all the time. I doubt many people who think pot should be legalized would suggest it should go unregulated. I love biased articles using stupid people as examples in arguments against legalization.

I am not a pot-head, and I am not an alcoholic. A motor vehicle (with or without a baby) should never be operated when you're high or drunk. Perhaps the last line of this article should read: "... although the pot-heads and the boozers of the world will protest, yet again we have ample proof why marijuana and alcohol should not be legal."
I'm very glad that the baby was okay, thank God for car seats, and that he has a chance of being adopted into a loving and caring family.

A MSN auto writer gets this article? Guess he won't be getting that promotion to write articles about important news any time soon after this one.

It doesn't matter what this mother was taking she is an unfit mother. When it comes to children I have no tolerence for people like that. There is no excuse for what she did if you r dumb enough to bring a Child into this world then your first prioity is the child.If you know that you can't take care of the baby then give the baby up for adoption

Why is everyone up in arms about the implacations that marijuana use caused the incident? I know when I used to smoke marijuana a lot I was extremely forgetful & absent-minded. All the people I know who smoke weed are the same. I could see how she would have left her baby on top of the car & driven forgetting that the baby was there.
Also, all of the people I know who get high drive while under the influence of marijuana. They don't see it as being serious like drinking & driving.
Don't get me wrong: in my experience occasional users aren't absentminded forgetful people. Instead it is those who are "chronic" using it everyday, several times a day, who are the ones who seem like they wind up losing a lot of brain cells;)
My point is moderation is key. Smoking marijuana (like drinking) once in awhile is fine, but when you feel you need to do it everyday to "function" then that's when you start running into real problems: loss of motivation, increased forgetfulness, poor judgement, messed up priorities. Obviously the mother in the article had a substance abuse problem mixed with equal parts of immaturity.
Why does every article regarding marijuana have to turn into a "this is why marijuana use shouldn't be legalized" type of story? If alcohol is legalized it is equally logical that marijuana be as well. There will always be selfish people out there who will drive under the influence of drugs and alcohol no matter what. It is up to us to spread the word that driving while high is just as dangerous as drinking & driving.

This is not a case of marijuana use. This is a case of gross negligence and very poor parenting. Blaming drug or alcohol usage for child abuse is just a blanket over the actual societal problem. The problem is the kids that are having children have grown up in a society of 'entitlement' and not one of working diligently to get ahead.

These people (certainly not under the title of parent) are spoiled themselves. They are the ones at the shallow end of the gene pool whom should have never been allowed to propagate the species.

Yes, the drug use and alcohol consumption did play a role in this heinous act. But the underlining problem will still be there upon the sober morn. Stupidity is not curable. Stupidity is corrected by nature culling the herd and sooner or later, nature will catch up with this stupid twat and all will be right again.

Personally, she should be publicly flogged by every parent of a newborn within 50 miles. Public humiliation maybe the only deterrent society may have.

STOOOOOPID IDIOTIC MORONS - both of them. Now that I've got that off my chest, I'm glad that child is now in care. Maybe it's future will be a lot brighter. Certainly the mother isn't any too bright. Anybody who drinks and drives, does ANY kind of drugs and drives etc, deserve what they get. I've worked in the health system (front line - not office) and seen what drugs and alcohol can do. The number of people adversely affected (killed, injured, or family member killed/injured) by drunk and drugged drivers are a lot more than the majority of you out there realise. Also, the number of children born to mothers who drink or take drugs is higher than you may think. Ever heard of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome? Ever heard of babies having withdrawals because mom was taking drugs while pregnant? It's not nice to have to watch these babies suffering. These kids will have problems for the rest of their lives. Think what you are doing to a future generation when you drink and/or do any kind of drugs.