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I'm going to put my 2 cents in here. Please make sure your assumptions of their parenting skills is accurate prior to calling childrens services. In your story, you don't mention anything like "neighbors said the kids went hungry, or saw the parents beat them, or hear the kids screaming, or parents threatening to abuse them" Your complaints are regarding drug use of which you personally did not witness, but are getting as second hand information.
Now I don't use coke, nevre have, but I assume since it is a powder that can blow away in the wind...why would they do coke on a balcony instead of inside the house? As for pot/hot knives...well, I don't smoke either, but I can tell you I know a hell of a lot of people in adult and mainstream that DO and have kids, and they are good parents...mind you, they don't smoke in front of their kids, but I am sure at some point they have had contact with their kids when they were a little high, much like coming home from a party with a few drinks in you...doesn't make you a bad parent.
In my life I have learned that you don't take what you feel for adults out on their kids......so make sure if you do call the authorities you are calling them because you really believe the child need protection from their parents and not just because you are pissed at their parents...because if that is the case...it is the children who can lose. If taken away when they don't need to be...they could be put in foster care where they are in more danger than they were in their home
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