OK, Mom grew up in the 60s (so did I) and she bought the DEA line. She's getting older and the old age illnesses are creeping in. Run a search on cannabis abstract and anything she has wrong (diabetes, fear of alzheimer's, arthritis, etc. Turnabout is fair play! Send her some of these! She is going to bring up the old "it messes with your hormones" line. Here is one to counter it-- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...564&query_hl=1
It will mess with your IQ- http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/166/7/887
Your memory will still work- http://marijuana.researchtoday.net/archive/3/3/664.htm
Pot reverses brain damage in alcoholics! http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/cgi/co...ract/314/2/780
There is SO much on cannabis fighting cancer, I'm not going to list all that I have on it- just run a search and make sure your printer has a lot of ink!
Osteoporosis (brittle bones, the bane of us older ladies- my bone density actually went UP from my previous visit! I'm 59 and a mmj user) http://www.israelnationalnews.com/pr...t=news&id96146 and also http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0104232013.htm
Alzheimer's is another area that has a lot of stuff- http://mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n307/a10.html
I could be at this all day, dear, I have over 200 pages on cannabis and it's medical uses! Go to marijuana.researchtoday.com or if you want the HEAVY science, go see ccicnewsletter.net . Don't forget to hit the archives- lots of good research! Harmreductionjournal.com and NORML's Cannabis and the Brain has good stuff, too. I doubt if you will convince her, but good luck!- Granny Storm Crow
Storm Crow Reviewed by Storm Crow on . Need some Help from you all Ok all, last night I went to see my parents, and I guess I smelled like MJ.(Im 20 BTW) So they questioned me about it and I said "yes, I do use marijuana and I dont believe its wrong, and I am not sorry for doing so." Well my mother is a very closed minded judgmental person. And im not saying that to be mean, its the truth. I swear I couldnt get a word in about the drug, anything I started to say was soon interupted with "It's a gateway drug, it will make you do more drugs..." I tried Rating: 5