bizar4u
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Message #173368 posted by bizar4u (Info) March 15, 2008 09:40:19 ET
In Reply to: Re: what spitzer's resignignation means for drugpo posted by forged registration (Info) March 14, 2008 23:00:30 ET
FR, it's great that they got on your side. My feeling is that some folks will never get there -- their objection to pot is deeply emotional, and the best you can do is get limited tolerance. But how did you get your in-laws to accept it?
As for my aunt, she was surprised and curious -- wanted to know what its effects were and where I obtained it.
Her daughter (my older cousin) married a big pothead in the mid-1980s, and eventually asked him to stop smoking, which he didn't do. My cousin says that was one of the contributing factors to their eventual divorce (although I have my doubts about that as the reason). He is a very high functioning (pun intended) corporate executive, and he felt that he performed better as a pot smoker.
So ... my aunt has some experience with potheads, but didn't think of me as one. She'd actually tried marijuana a long time ago -- back in the 1950s -- but it didn't do anything for her.
Then we got talking about the time when my cousin was growing up, back in the mid-1970s, and how wild she was, and impossible to control. How difficult this was for my aunt, and how it seems like kids now are less rebellious.
She did urge me to not smoke and drive, always sensible.
One virtue of "coming out" to an 80 year old is that chances are they won't remember it later!
And FH -- it's another strange kind of cognitive dissonance on these boards that you get a mental image of someone, and sometimes it fits exactly who they are, and sometimes it's completely off.
B
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