I recently told my folks that I occasionally smoke cannabis... occasionally! My dad has never thought of it as being a big deal, but has his doubts.. On the other hand, my mom has gone off the deep end. Even after I have provided her with a multitude of articles that explain its harmlessness.. She seems to have no problem with me going out and getting plastered off of alcohol, or smoking cigars... but MJ is just on a whole new level. Her huge issue is "you don't know what is in it", or "what's next? are you going to be doing other drugs?" basically... I'm a good student, maintaining good grades (70's and 80's). I work a full time and a part time job which I manage to maintain and I am still feeling like I'm being branded as a loser. As if she didn't raise me like that or something... but whats worse is, she figures I'm "following along with the crowd" whereas, before I had even tried ganja I had read and researched quite a lot about it (as I do with everything). No matter how much I say that, she still doesn't get it I apologize for my venting, and I'm sorry if this is the wrong place for this post... if it is, maybe someone can move it? But is there ANY possible way I can convince her other that what I've already done? I've compared it to alcohol, told her I'm easing off on the drinking... It's changed a lot of my friends and seems to be the only thing on everyone's mind... But that still doesn't do it.. She'd rather me be drinking that smoking a bit of chronic. Thanks a lot... I appreciate the help.
Chances are your mom will never change her mind about it, just tell her you quit and do it outside of the house.
Looks like another case of the media properly doing their job.. it's unfortunate, really. Keep trying to convince her.. what captain chronic said would be the same as quiting.. and everyone knows that only quitters quit.
Yes, very unfortunate.... I tried to tell her I've educated myself on it, and there has been times I haven't indulged on it at all, until I got a basic understanding of it... She figures it IS addicting, and a gateway to harder substances... I've told her it depends on personality, and it can be an addicting feeling, but not a dependancy.... I emailed her about 6-7 articles which should have doused those ideas (provided she reads them). I'm working on it!!
dude, she is your mom. she will llove you no matter what, obviously her opinion means a lot to you, but you should worry less. maybe if she sees that you dont care what she thinks about you smoking the herb, she will ease off and eventually trust you. also, how old are you? also, assure her that you will keep up with study and your job =]
yea good choice its a weight lifted of ive been trying to slowly give my parents hints that i do so i wont have to hide anymore i just wish i could tell them but im bien a pussy about it what did u say to them and where were yall at? if u dont mind me askin im tyrin to get an idea swo maybe it will help me
My mom found out last year and she was hella pissed at first and I stopped for awhile but when summer came started doing it everyday and she knows I grow and everything, but trust me that Im smart with it becuase she can b arely catch me let alone the cops
My friend told his parents, and his mom freaked, and so did his dad, but since he smoked when he was a kid, they agreed that his dad couldn't be mad at him...
sounds like its gonna be hard to convince your mom. its sad how she beleives alcohol is better/less dangerous than pot though
if shes worried about something being in it, ask her if you can grow. bump your grades up to 90's, i know you can do it, and be mature about it. she probably won't change her mind, but being grown up can help.
She has asked me all the time over the past couple months if I've smoked it, even tried it... etc... I denied it up and down, until arming myself with numerous articles, and educating myself on it down to a science. We were talking the other day, and I was showing her articles. So she asked me, and I said I had smoked it occasionally. I tried to assure her that it wouldn't mix with my studies and things, and that I'd rather smoke than drink... since I don't get sick, or feel like hell the next day. I tried telling her I could order some seeds and grow a little fellar for my occasional use But I told her I didn't know if I'd be smoking all that much and I wanted to keep it a once in a while thing, so I did not think growing would be a good alternative. (Even though, I'd love nothing more than to grow a couple little plants indoors...) I felt that that was a fairly mature response..
This just in! She says I can grow some plants! Her big beef was that she doesn't know whats in it... But she says I can grow so long as I don't buy any from other people... Nice So now my next questions are going to be... How can I easily grow a couple plants indoors? And reliable seedbanks.... Which is going to have to be asked in a separate section of the forum I guess. I'm just glad I finally got through to her...
Buy a 80 pack of dryer sheets and a smallish bottle of Gatorade. Drink the Gatorade, wash it out then cut like 6 small holes in the bottom. Crumple and stuff 20-30 dryer sheets into the gatorade bottle. Then smoke some weed and exhale all the smoke into your gatorade bottle stuffed with dryer sheets. Not only does your room not smell like weed, but it'll actually smell pleasantly of dryer sheets (assuming you bought good smelling ones). EDIT: Well fuck, I just read the post 2 posts above mine. Thats awesome ^^ As for growing, you'll want to pick up a 5 pack or 10 pack of feminized seeds from various online seedbanks for your plants. But even before you do that you'll probably want to find a room (like a small closet) to dedicate to your plants. If you're really serious about growing some good chronic you're going to have to spend a decent amount of money on your setup, but that will all be made back (and much more) if your plants yield any ammount of good bud whatsoever.
wow - your mom is interesting. Its the gateway to worse things - but its OK to grow your own! well, if your MAD are behind growing, you are all set. Look into the sea of green method. & congrats (that might not be the perfect word) on having your relationship with brother herb accepted by a resistant parent. Thats major.
There probably isnt much hope of convincing your mom that its ok, alot of people/parents just like to keep there opinions no matter the cost. But you mentioned she said "you dont know whats in it", well my friend had cancer and so after chemo therapy he was on all kinds of meds so he decided to tell his doctor about him smoking weed incase it might alter the affects of certain meds or even make them not work. So the doc said that if you are going to get high of weed, its best to bake it (make brownies, cookies, cake...) because it will kill any and all harmful bacteria in it and wont hurt your lungs like smoking it does. I dont know if this helps with your mom problem or not but its always nice to know little things like that . p.s. i wouldn't tell ur parents this but eating weed gets you much much higher. smoking it absorbs 30 percent of the THC and eating it absorbs more like 95 to 99 percent
