Help explaining to wife why THC is for me!

[Olum]

So, my wife of nearly 6 nears doesn't like my use of marijuana and becomes quite disgruntled whenever she thinks I've been smoking it or whenever the topic comes up. We argue about it from time to time because I know it's stupid to be concerned about our favorite herb but I also realize that she is woefully uneducated about it and is just going along with she thinks she knows about it. Today she told me to show her an article saying that it's good.

Jackpot! This could be my chance to bring her to the green side of the force. Please, I need all the links and articles and studies everybody has got to information proving that our favorite leafy friend is good healthy stuff. I'm hoping to completely bury her email inbox with hundreds of articles.

Help me turn my wife to the green side!

Edit: It occurs to me that others may benefit from this information, so I will list titles/links from the thread here for ease of use.

"Understanding Marijuana" By Dr. Lester Grinspoon - BOOK
https://www.icmag.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1422
The Union: The Business Behind Getting High - DOCUMENTARY
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33211_20051229.pdf
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=175366
http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/...juana-illegal/
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ependence).svg
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30178916/Marijuana-Is-Safer
THC kills lung cancer, study by HARVARD
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0417193338.htm

THC kills brain cancer cells, done by university in Spain.
http://www.jci.org/articles/view/37948

 

[HeD333]

Go buy her a copy of "Understanding Marijuana" By Dr. Lester Grinspoon- He's a harvard grad with plenty of factual evidence for your wife.

 

[Cookie monster]

From the med forums, lots of nice links to quiten down the little lady

https://www.icmag.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1422

 

[Stoner4Life]

just explain to her that it's the main reason you're able
tolerate her ugly moods, that'll cinch it for ya bro.......

 

[ROJO145]

Tell her that whenever you smoke ya have the strangest urge to Kiss pussy and Fuck,she'll be buyin ya bags!!!

 

[Pythagllio]

Well, I'd convince your wife to accept your cannabis use when you dump the current woman and actually find a cannabis friendly woman.

Why in the world do potheads get involved with non-cannabis people? When I set out to mate I took out a personal ad in the local 'underground' newspaper. Prominently featured in my description of myself was 'cannabis aficionado'. Result, a wife who I love dearly, and who may be the only person alive that can consume more cannabis than I do. We're coming up on our 14th anniversary and are still very much in love with each other.

My advice is to divorce the woman, and find one with which you are actually compatible. No hard feelings, just admit your marriage was a mistake and move on.

 

[SuperSizeMe]

Well, I'd convince your wife to accept your cannabis use when you dump the current woman and actually find a cannabis friendly woman.

Why in the world do potheads get involved with non-cannabis people? When I set out to mate I took out a personal ad in the local 'underground' newspaper. Prominently featured in my description of myself was 'cannabis aficionado'. Result, a wife who I love dearly, and who may be the only person alive that can consume more cannabis than I do. We're coming up on our 14th anniversary and are still very much in love with each other.

My advice is to divorce the woman, and find one with which you are actually compatible. No hard feelings, just admit your marriage was a mistake and move on.

I beg to differ.

it IS possible to have a mate who doesn't use cannabis (or whatever your thing is) when the relationship is good and built on solid ground.

This isn't a rejection of MJ, it's a rejection of the individual.

 

[Olum]

Well, I'd convince your wife to accept your cannabis use when you dump the current woman and actually find a cannabis friendly woman.

Why in the world do potheads get involved with non-cannabis people? When I set out to mate I took out a personal ad in the local 'underground' newspaper. Prominently featured in my description of myself was 'cannabis aficionado'. Result, a wife who I love dearly, and who may be the only person alive that can consume more cannabis than I do. We're coming up on our 14th anniversary and are still very much in love with each other.

My advice is to divorce the woman, and find one with which you are actually compatible. No hard feelings, just admit your marriage was a mistake and move on.

I understand what you're saying, but that's not going to happen. I love my wife very much and there's not a chance in Hell we're splitting up any time soon. It is unfortunate that she's not "cannabis friendly" but sometimes things just don't work out like that. When we originally got together I was on an extended break from the good herb and the subject of MJ just never really came up.

I very much so love my wife, and I would appreciate if people could stick to the task at hand -- gathering articles.

 

[The End Is Near]

She at least gave him a chance to educate her. He should have no problem at all finding the positives. Or you could make her a low potency brownie so she can say she didn't inhale.

 

[funkervogt]

Is it that she disagrees with your use of cannabis fundamentally, isn't convinced it is a medical necessity for your symptoms, or just doesn't like you stoned around her?

 

[danimarie193]

The Union: The Business Behind Getting High

watch this with here. its is a good little documentary.

 

[Olum]

I'm really appreciating all of your feedback, thank you and keep it coming!

Is it that she disagrees with your use of cannabis fundamentally, isn't convinced it is a medical necessity for your symptoms, or just doesn't like you stoned around her?

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That's a good question. I sort of doubt that she has given much thought to that herself. I think it's one of those things where she's always heard that it was bad so she just believes that it is. Also, when she was growing up her older brother did hard drugs, was in trouble with the police, and had a host of other issues. She's had other family members that did hard drugs as well and were always in trouble. She doesn't really see the difference between MJ and hard drugs. She believes that it's addictive, causes people to act stupidly or loose control, and she equates MJ use with "bad people" and criminals.

I find this all sort of funny too because I've drank to excess for years and so long as I don't do something she considers stupid or bad, she doesn't really care. I would much rather smoke than drink any day.

I've been around her high many times, sometimes she realized it and was angry and sometimes she had no clue and we went about our normal activities without a hitch. I've told her that before and she doesn't seem to believe me.

I'm thinking that it might be beneficial to introduce her to some respectable people who smoke. Maybe find our local NORML chapter and show her doctors and lawyers who smoke.

 

[kmk420kali]

Try this-- http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33211_20051229.pdf
It is a link from this Thread-- http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=175366

 

[Backward_Z]

http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal/

This looks like a good summary of why marijuana's illegal. The inset video is good, too.

Of course, there's always this chart: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._(mean_physical_harm_and_mean_dependence).svg

Just the Wikipedia entry on Cannabis is pretty useful: "While a study in New Zealand of 79 lung-cancer patients suggested daily cannabis smokers have a 5.7 times higher risk of lung cancer than non-users,[62] another study of 2252 people in Los Angeles failed to find a correlation between the smoking of cannabis and lung, head or neck cancers.[63] Some studies have also found that moderate cannabis use may protect against head and neck cancers,[64] as well as lung cancer.[65] Some studies have shown that cannabidiol may also be useful in treating breast cancer.[66] These effects have been attributed to the well documented anti-tumoral properties of cannabinoids, specifically tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol."

The stuff is harmless. NOBODY has ever died from a cannabis overdose. Can't be said for many other recreational drugs on the market...

 

[cocktail frank]

nothing says i told you so like a black eye!

 

[habeeb]

you don't need to explain yourself to anyone. If they don't understand, no words will never be enough..

explaining yourself to someone is very negative..

 

[intotheunknown]

you don't need to explain yourself to anyone. If they don't understand, no words will never be enough..

explaining yourself to someone is very negative..

that right there is right on the money.

 

[CrumpleZone]

Marijuana is Safer

Marijuana is Safer

http://www.scribd.com/doc/30178916/Marijuana-Is-Safer

Here's a link to a book which you may find helpful.

I find myself in a similar situation, Good luck!

 

[superbolan]

I cant stand so called "straight "people bunch of hypocrites with their alcohol and nicotine and they have the nerve tell us how bad drugs are. I could never be involved with anyone like that. My cannabis use is a core part of me and if you don't accept that well your never going to accept me. A partner needs to be someone you can be yourself with and not live a lie, If your not being yourself then its not worth it

 

[Holdin']

The last relationship I had, I didn't know her stance on MJ so I hid it for a while. Bad idea. Once the cat got out the bag, she said it was all good, no big deal. Long story short, after about a couple years, this transpired into a huge problem for her, basically saying I'd rather smoke than spend time with her. Like I couldn't spend time with her if I was stoned because "I wasn't in the right mind." Or some stupid shit. Obviously this eventually caused our downfall.

After that experience I can say it's best off for someone who is in love with MJ, be in love with an individual who feels the same. I do feel that it's not crucial to happiness, I feel that there are non-MJ loving folks who are compatible with the opposite, but they are few and far. Some of them maybe do love MJ, but haven't figured it out yet.

From the sounds of it, you've found someone who you can be happy with and are very much in love with one another, but I think it is definitely time to break her of her uneducated, anti-MJ mindset. Because if it does end up not working out (not saying it won't), you're going to wish you would've figured it out sooner, or better yet converted her sooner.

I'm assuming you don't grow? Because this is where it gets into the grey area. I've known a couple growers with non MJ friendly partners, and it nearly turned into disaster. I don't have to explain that one, you get the picture.

But I wish the best of luck to you, I'm sure after 6 years everything will work out for the better. And it's good you're deciding to educate her, finally. I'll go on the hunt for some good articles I've read in the past.