Gee, I didn't get my first bong till my 16th birthday, my dad bought it for me. My parents let me smoke as much pot as I wanted as long as I didn't drink alcohol.
Some parents don't get it, it took a raging addiction to a much more harmful drug 16 years later to set my life on a drug free path. Next weekend I will celibrate 7 years of living clean & sober, life just keeps getting better.