How to Talk to Your Kids About Weed

This article first appeared in the Kids & Cannabis edition of Fat Nugs Magazine, published December 2025

Last issue, I wrote an article about how to talk to your grandparents about weed and shared how I approach the delicate subject of plant medicine to a generation with prohibition in their DNA.

It only feels natural to write about how to talk to kids about weed in the pediatric issue. If you’re new, I’m a cannabis and psychedelic nurse educator and founder of EntheaCare, where we empower healing and end the stigma with plant medicines. We have award-winning hemp products, and I speak globally on these topics.

Right up there with the birds-and-the-bees talk, conversations about cannabis can be some of the most influential ones you have with your kids.

As a cannabis nurse educator and mother, I’ve had the opportunity to have some of these conversations with kids of various ages, and here’s how I approach it and what I’ve learned in the process.

How to Talk To Your Kids About Weed, By Age

The Littles

Disclaimers: I completely recognize that speaking about this to children is a privilege and that not everyone may have this same freedom. My boys are 6 and 9, and while I’ve taught high schoolers about cannabis, I recognize parenting high schoolers who are exposed to cannabis is a completely different animal I have yet to encounter. I also have the blessing of their doctor, who defers to me to medicate them appropriately, and I know that’s rare.

Here’s to hoping I’m doing something right in the early years so that the animal isn’t so beastly in a few years.

Since I was relatively late to the cannabis game, my boys were about 2 and 5 when they were first exposed, while I was getting a master’s degree in the subject. I would talk about cannabis all the time, show them pictures, and allow them to smell fresh flower. Calling it “cannavis,” they would have a contest to see who could draw the best fan leaves and tell their class that “Mom likes cannavis and mushrooms” for school projects.

Cannabinoids are like Windex in My Big Fat Greek Wedding at our house. Skin rash? Topical CBD. Growing pains? Oral CBD. Anxiety? Oral CBG. Influenza A and haven’t eaten in two days? A piece of a low-dose THC+CBD gummy. Head injury? Lots of oral CBD and CBG. Tummy ache? Topical and oral CBG.

They used to roll their eyes when I offered it, and now they ask for it, because they know it works. Of course, we only use the whole plant full-spectrum goodness from our own product line.

If you have young kids and use cannabis, I invite you to talk about it openly with them. Explain what you’re consuming and why, just like you would do with any medicine. Release your own shame around it and don’t hide it; otherwise, they learn that it’s a shameful practice that they need to hide. If you have shame around it, maybe it’s time to unpack that.

Of course, don’t expose them to secondhand smoke or leave your edibles open and accessible, but normalize it and teach them to respect it as the medicine that it is.

Ending the stigma starts here!