Spanish guy here. I watchted that football match (Real madrid Vs Barça y.. a classic match.) and I saw the lasers in messi's face. I think that thanks to that kind of idiotic people lasers will get banned here.... football is kinda important here in spain.
Otro español!!
It's bs that your dad doesn't let you have lasers, even being 17. But... you are living in his home (I guess) and he is the one that makes the rules.
Maybe if you don't tell him....
If you put more voltage in your laser, with driver included two things can happen:
1.- You kill the driver (mostly with switching drivers)
2.- You kill the diode (mostly with bad quality chinese drivers)
I don't know your liking but he should take more car for the actual green than the LOW IR. Seriously, they do not emit that HUGe quantity of IR, and what they emit is almos uncollimated so I wont care too much for the IR.