Hey Merry Christmas guys, hope all is well and everyone is having a good season. I know for me this has been a pretty crazy week! for those of you who haven't been following or don't want to read all of the old posts, I quit smoking weed because my family had such strong feelings against it and gave me an untimatum to stop or I can't hold my new niece, who i love very much. This situation has been talked through with everyone in my family and some interesting opinions have risen. A lot of arguing and conflicting opinions.. But I decided to stop arguing and even stating my opinions because I found that close-minded people don't think marijuana users have valid opinions. If their state-of-mind is being altered, so are all of there thoughts and rational knowledge. So I decided to let NetFlix do some talking. There are so many fucking documentaries about weed, but people are still very ignorant on the subject. I watched The Union:The Business of Getting High with my sister and brother-in-law and I think it really hit home with a few of their concerns. They just can't get over the legality of it.. I live in AZ, which is now a medical state, but believe it or not, there are people who are against medical use of marijuana because it is a federal offense. Does anyone have any thoughts on that? One thing I've come to is that legality is not what it should be. There are the few illegal substances that really shouldn't be illegal, and a handful of legal substances that should ABSOLUTELY be illegal. One thing that's been coming up in Phoenix is fucking bath salts. It's a sad thing man.. Any of us, or any of our kids can go to a head shop, get a balloon of "bath salts" without an ID and be tweaked out, up for days on these salts, which I have pretty much found to be more lethal than meth and heroin. I've never done this shit and don't plan to.

Anyways, I found with a little valid education on cannabis, it's history, it's prohibition, it's effects and it's users, my family had a change of heart. They still wish I didn't do it, but are more sympathetic to me because I used to be on other meds and now I'm not. So i don't have to drug test, I don't really have to stop smoking, I just can't hold my niece if I've been smoking that day. Which I think is fair. A little micro-managed, but more fair than only being able to hold her if I provide a clean drug test.

So this was good news to me. I had stopped for just over a week, but last night me and some of my best friends had a couple christmas blunts. I think I am going to continue using cannabis, just a little differently than I was. When you smoke too often, it gets old and the whole cannabis comma lifestyle can be frustrating as fuck. I think, for me, cannabis needs to be something more of a weekend treat or something that will be enjoyed more if used sparingly. So that's where I'm at. I don't feel like I relapsed or anything like that. I my situation with my family was the same, I might consider it a relapse, but the situation changed and now I have a more honest relationship with everyone in my family. I also just hate using hard drug terms like relapse with weed.

Alright, this has been a sufficient amount of blabbering. How was everyone's Christmas? How did you celebrate?