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<p>OP never asked how to enforce her house rules or punish her son for breaking them. Only how she might “get him off on the right foot” at college and “get him back on track”.</p>
<p>To that I would say, a return to the counselor may help. He’s been there before and you have a month before he’s gone to work with him/her on this.</p>
<p>Setting down some rules about your support for college may also help - since you won’t know if he’s smoking pot or not (unless you make drug tests a requirement of college tuition payments or something) perhaps it’s best to lay down rules that you can enforce, to do with grade expectations and discipline issues that may arise at the U, for instance.</p>