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Two parents from Florida allegedly used marijuana as a “bargaining tool” with their daughters, who also allegedly snorted cocaine in their father’s truck.
Joey and Chad Mudd were charged with multiple child abuse counts for providing marijuana to their 13- and 14-year-old daughters in the family home in Largo, Florida.
Joey Mudd, 34, admitted to smoking the drug with her children on five occasions and described the use “as a form of a bargaining tool” for achieving good school grades and doing household chores, The Smoking Gun
She was released from the Pinellas County Jail early yesterday morning after posting a $5,000 bond and ordered to have no contact with her children, who are in the care of a relative.
Chad Mudd, 36, has also been charged with providing the girls with cocaine, which he allegedly snorted with them in his truck.
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Bill Maher "Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana... About 50,000 times."
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Bill Clinton "I experimented with marijuana a time or two."
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Jon Stewart “Do you know how many movies I wrote when I was high?”
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Martha Stewart “Of course I know how to role a joint.”
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis George W. Bush "I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried."
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Sarah Palin "I can't claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled.”
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis David Letterman “I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.”
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Morgan Freeman "Never give up the ganja."
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Steve Jobs “The best way I would describe the effect of the marijuana and the hashish is that it would make me relaxed and creative.”
Mr Mudd, a restaurant worker, remains jailed on six counts of child abuse and was also charged with cocaine possession.
Joey Mudd was employed in a paediatric care, and the couple’s youngest daughter is in pre-school.
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