Dear Queenie,
My brother and his wife will be visiting us over the Christmas holidays. When they stayed with us during the summer we found then smoking marijuana in our backyard. It’s legal where they live and they didn’t think anything about it.
We were very upset about this and so were our children, because it is illegal in St. Maarten and it is against the rules we have set for our home, and our children didn’t understand why they couldn’t do it if our guests could.
I want to make the rules clear to my brother and his wife before they come again, but my mother is afraid if I do they won’t come to visit us.
Queenie, should I listen to my mother?—Worried sister
Dear Sister,
Absolutely not! As you said, this is illegal in St. Maarten, even in the privacy of one’s own home. Is your mother willing to see you break the law – and possibly suffer the consequences thereof – just to keep peace in the family?
Tell your brother and sister-in-law they will have to abstain from their illegal pleasures while they stay with you, and if they cannot do without them for the duration of the visit they will have to stay at a hotel – which I am sure will not put up with this kind of behaviour either!
