Do your parents know you use cannabis?

[Frank Reynolds]

My old man smokes most of what I grow lel at least he helps out and waters some times haha

[Sir PsychoHashy]

My mum would have an aneurysm if I told her, she would likely accept the medicinal benefits after I explained them, but would still find it unacceptable.  Main thing stopping me is how much it would upset her. 

 

Told her once during one of my extended abstinence trials (had to make sure canna was beneficial and not causing problems) that I had smoked in the past, and explained how alcohol is worse and all the propoganda is bullshit etc.  She was relieved I was no longer partaking, but was visibly freaked out about the whole thing, and refused to accept that all the reefer madness propoganda was not true, so it now remains a closely guarded secret.  Her head near exploded when I said that based on experience I would prefer to see my kids smoking weed rather than drinking alcohol.  As for the old man, I know for a fact that if he found out I was smoking he would call the cops without hesitation, let alone if he found out about the grow.

 

In the end you have to make decisions like this based on what you know of your parents, honesty is the best policy, but for some people it's better for them to be kept in ignorance.

[Dingo-2008]

At the ripe age of 18yrs my mother found out that I had been smoking weed with a few girls,Because 1 of the girls mum sprung her stoned an she shit her panties an told her mother that she had been smoking pot with me an a few other girls an guys.

 

This was unknown to me until  my shit head brother tried  to black mail me about me smoking pot an was going to tell my mother so I got a bit pissed off an hit him one mum freaked out an wanted to know why I had hit him an me being me an always being honest with my mother an farther I told her why he got a few hits.

 

She said there was know need for that as she know that I had been smoking pot an told me about being dobbed in by the girl,Mum just said I was old enough to know what I was doing an that was that, I never got in the shit for smoking pot.

 

My mother was a lot cooler about me smoking pot than my father was.

 

An as the year's rolled by an I went into partnership working with mum an dad an ended up living back at home due to work.

 

They would both let me grow some plants for myself an they would even water an feed my girls if I had to go away working which was very good of both of them.

 

Both my mother an father never smoked weed or used it until they both got sick,Mum got liver cancer an I used to make fruit muffins with cannabis for her an she would scoff into them big time .

 

When Dad got sick I did the same for him an he like the muffins as well,

 

They have now both been pasted away for quite a few year's now god rest there sol's

 

 

I just wish every ones folks were as understanding as my mother an father were an had open minds to anything new that could help sick peoples in there time of need an pain relief.

 

 

I am 60yrs old now an will never forget there kindness an understanding of Cannabis as a medicine & rec uses.

 

 

I count myself as a very lucky person an find that honesty is the best policy.

 

 

Regards,Dingo-2008. 

[MediKat]

I can still remember my step mother finding my stash @ 16. It was a large bag of leaf and tip stashed with my bbq'ing mags, . She was horrified. 

[Dingo-2008]

Hey  Katton you sure they were BBQ,ing magz an not porno magz that she found an freaked out on.pmsl    

[Faith]

what a cool survey.  Yeah, my ma knows...she was the one who got my meds in Cali over Dec.  sat out the back with me and my cousin who has Brain Cancer and a Very Bad Back.  Ma doesn't smoke cannabis but she would durry on with us...she saw how much it helped me and my cousin.  she saw what alcohol did to her family from father to husband to son.  Canna never hurt nobody and she reckons it is idiotic, no, cruel and sadistic what Australia is doing re cannabis and health.  

faith

[The Rose of Darkness]

Both of my parents are aware of what I do. (To a certain degree)

I was a fairly articulate "Wednesday Adam's" type child growing up who calculated everything I did.

My parents realized very early that when I came to them to with whatever I was planning to do that there was little point trying to change my mind as I had already thought it through and there guidance was void.

They learned that my mind was already made and my decisions were just an admission, not a negotiation and to simply wish me the best.


Your parents should be the people that you are open with the most.... (unless they are pure vindictive scum)

The people that are the most important in your life should know who you are and what you do.

You are not a child anymore. You do not need validation from your parents. You are your own person, your own life, your own decisions.

Love is accepting and supporting the ones who love and support you.

Your parents will never respect you and see you as your own person until you stand up and say "This is who I am"

~Love without honesty is like a river without water~

Rose.

[friendsinneed]

Both of my parents are aware of what I do. (To a certain degree)

 

I was a fairly articulate "Wednesday Adam's" type child growing up who calculated everything I did.

 

My parents realized very early that when I came to them to with whatever I was planning to do that there was little point trying to change my mind as I had already thought it through and there guidance was void.

 

They learned that my mind was already made and my decisions were just an admission, not a negotiation and to simply wish me the best.

 

 

Your parents should be the people that you are open with the most.... (unless they are pure vindictive scum)

 

The people that are the most important in your life should know who you are and what you do.

You are not a child anymore. You do not need validation from your parents. You are your own person, your own life, your own decisions.

 

Love is accepting and supporting the ones who love and support you.

 

Your parents will never respect you and see you as your own person until you stand up and say "This is who I am"

 

~Love without honesty is like a river without water~

 

Rose.

 

It's great that you can have that kind of relationship with your parents and I'm sure if life were that simple for all of us we would do the same.

[crow]

Your parents should be the people that you are open with the most.... (unless they are pure vindictive scum)

 

The people that are the most important in your life should know who you are and what you do.

You are not a child anymore. You do not need validation from your parents. You are your own person, your own life, your own decisions.

 

Love is accepting and supporting the ones who love and support you.

 

Your parents will never respect you and see you as your own person until you stand up and say "This is who I am"

 

~Love without honesty is like a river without water~

 

Rose.

 

Heartfelt thanks for this Rose.

[The Rose of Darkness]

It's great that you can have that kind of relationship with your parents and I'm sure if life were that simple for all of us we would do the same.

I mean this with all love and respect, but the relationship you have is the one you create. It is that simple.

 

By justifying complications we are only feeding the fears that divide us from the ones we love.

 

Honesty and truth feed the love that binds us.

 

If you are afraid of what your parents think it is because you love, value and respect them.

 

To complete this circle, they must return the same to you.

 

One thing that hurts a parent more than an awful truth is learning that there was something important that you felt you couldnt share with them.

 

Rose.

 

EDIT: I should also say that my thoughts mean no intent to make anyone feel upset about their relationship, but to help empower you to create the relationship you have always wanted with them.

 

Edited June 19, 2015 by The Rose of Darkness