I have an interesting story. I'm 23 and I live in an apartment a few blocks away from my parent's home. I am also an AIDS patient as of this last year. Oh, and my parents are mormons. For those of you who don't know, mormons are usually very much against alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine, premarital sex, cannabis, and really any kind of fun (though I find myself wishing I had listened as far as the premarital sex thing goes given my current medical situation).
I love my parents because they're my parents but as a kid they often called the police on me over EVERYTHING. Because I live so close to them and see them so often, when I began my current grow I was kinda paranoid about them finding out. More or less because of the lectures that would ensue (I can legally grow here under state law).
In the beginning of January my mother was visiting my apartment. I remember hearing a knock at the door and running to my bedroom to turn off the lights, shut and lock the closet door. I let my mother in and she proceeded to drop off some food (she frequently brings over leftovers) before telling me that she needed to use the bathroom. The only bathroom in my apartment is in my bedroom. After the toilet flushes, I hear her calling my name.
"What is the electrical cord going into the closet for," she asked with narrowed eyes.
She may be a mormon, but she sure isn't sheltered. After all, she had me for a son. I stood there searching frantically for a valid answer to her question for what seemed like hours (but was likely only about two minutes).
Finally I caved. Well, sort of.
"Ignorance is bliss. Trust me, you don't want to know," I told her with a sheepish grin on my face.
She came out and asked me directly. "Son, are you growing something in there?"
I haven't been able to lie to my mom in years and I was about to find out that this was no exception.
Before leaving she sat on my couch and cried, telling me how ashamed she was. BTW, thats not an easy thing to deal with coming from your parents. But, I digress. There is a happy ending to this story.
My parents were prohibitionists to the core and my mother was pretty upset for the next week. One day my mother rode with me to one of my doctor's appointments at the local RVD (retroviral disease) program. She has insisted on coming ever since she found out about my diagnosis. Anyway, I finally talked to her about it while I was driving. I discussed the medical benefits. Talked about common (and completely legal) substances that are far more dangerous. She still wasn't having it. Then I asked her, "Do you believe there is medical value for morphine?"
My mother looked at me like I was crazy.
"Of course," she muttered.
"Have you ever heard of anyone breaking into cars to steal stereos so they can score some more pot?"
She shook her head hesitantly.
"But the same cannot be said for moprhine, a much more addictive substance that has been directly attributed to the deaths of countless people."
She looked out her window without saying a word and I dropped the subject.
A week later I was out for my weekly dinner with my parents and brothers and sisters at a local restaurant we frequent when out of the blue my mother pipes up and says "Hey son, so the family has talked about it and we all think it's ok for you to be smoking the pot." I hadn't even finished sitting and I just kinda fell over the rest of the way. Did I really just change the mind of a prohibitionist? If it wasn't my mother would she have changed her mind? I'm not sure. I'd like to believe that there is hope for the legalization front if we can still bring the prohibitionists over to our side of thinking.
In any case, the experience is still very meaningful for me. I can't remember EVER being able to get my mother to change her mind about anything. Now she comes over and looks at my plants every time she visits. When she smelled them for the first time she looked at me in disbelief. "That's what it smells like? I used to eat plants that smelled like that all the time when I was a kid. We thought they were mint leaves"
ITT we learn my mormon mom does pot. Fucking hilarious. I still can't believe I got busted by my parents in my own fucking apartment though. I should have at least had a more impressive HID or even CFL setup (this tube experiment looks like it might be a failure. Might yield 2 ounces tops)