On smoking pot

Today mum was very upset. I could tell from the first moment I heard her voice on my new cell phone. Apparent these things do nothing for changing the tone/ mood of people using them. Darn! Was really hoping that, by chance, Alexis was all powerful and all knowing.

Then I found out the reason behind mum's unhappiness. It has come to her attention that a certain member of the family has once again been smoking pot. Over the years, she has reacted the same way to the same situation. Amazingly she has not developed coping mechanisms for this situation.

Personally, I have not tried smoking pot. In North America though, most people have. Buying and consuming has been made so easy that people do not even see it as 'doing drugs' anymore. Everyone I know here has tried it at one point or another and will continue to indulge from time to time.

Psyc class, summer of 2003- Smoking pot has little long term effect on a person and is less harmful than smoking cigs.

I, therefore, now have a new take on the whole issue. Under the protection of - trying everything once - I will give it a go should the opportunity arises in the near future. After hearing so many - what I did when I was high- stories, it is now time for creating an album of my own stories.

The thing I cannot understand though is why my mum could and would not accept smoking pot as something extremely common. Really, it isn't even a big deal. I'm not talking about being an addict, just the occasional indulgence. The particular member of my family I was talking about will continue to do what he has been doing regardless of what mum says. And she knows this, I'm sure. Yet she chooses to believe that by getting upset and yelling at the person, he would quit rather than try harder to keep this vice a secret. This has caused her pain in many instances and I feel for her. She (and I) was brought up in a society where any sort of drug was bad. You get hanged for posession, for god's sake.

So then I guess my point is this. In order to stay in the race for survival of the fittest, we need to adapt. Of course idealy the adaptation is one that is good for ya and does not put you in too much of a conflict with your existing principles. This is not always the case. Regardless of that though, you've gotta do what you've gotta do.

On this issue, I can see that my mum is having a really hard time bending to the norms.