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<blockquote data-quote="pigless in VA" data-source="post: 684505" data-attributes="member: 11832"><p>When I questioned a psychiatrist as to why my husband became psychotic from smoking weed (that was not the only drug in his system), the psychiatrist told me that the marijuana of today is 10 times stronger than that of the 70s. He said he sees "a lot" of marijuana induced psychosis. </p><p></p><p>From my own observations, my husband's reaction was atypical. I grew up with many, many people who were frequent users. I always preferred them to the angry alcoholics. The potheads were laid back, calm, and quiet, if a bit silly. </p><p></p><p>I wanted to add my brother in law's life to this discussion. When he was a young man, he was very popular with the ladies. His first serious girlfriend was an unstable person. She physically attacked him during arguments. My husband viewed him after one of these attacks and said, "it looked Iike he had been attacked by a wild animal. His body was covered in bite marks and burns." There was never a second girlfriend in my brother in law's life. He was a severe alcoholic. To his credit, he did stop drinking alcohol, but he continued the daily pot use. What I saw was a basically a good man, but a man who was emotionally stunted. </p><p></p><p>His life revolved around work (he was good at his job), smoking weed and collecting pets . . . many, many pets. When we would see him at family gatherings, he was always very uncomfortable and would spend a great deal of time outside smoking. When we went to my in-laws' house for holidays, brother in law spent the majority of his time asleep or watching television. This extended family would often rent a beach house for a week during the summer. brother in law introduced all of his cousin's kids to weed on these vacations. Due to the knowledge of that and his complete lack of safety issues, I simply could not allow brother in law to take my kids anywhere unsupervised. My late husband and I discussed this many times. Neither one of us felt confident in brother in law's ability to keep the kids safe. I know that was extremely hard on brother in law after my husband's (his brother's) death. He loved my kids very much and wanted to spend time with them. I couldn't allow it. I knew he was still smoking weed daily. It is my opinion that brother in law's self-medication is what kept him from coping with my husband's suicide. Three years later, brother in law took his own life in the same way. </p><p></p><p>brother in law was a hurt man. His choice to daily wash his pain away with weed kept him from finding a wife and having kids of his own. He said something years ago which sums up his life. He had just had his fortieth birthday and he said, "I still think like a kid!" He was a middle-aged child - no maturity whatsoever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigless in VA, post: 684505, member: 11832"] When I questioned a psychiatrist as to why my husband became psychotic from smoking weed (that was not the only drug in his system), the psychiatrist told me that the marijuana of today is 10 times stronger than that of the 70s. He said he sees "a lot" of marijuana induced psychosis. From my own observations, my husband's reaction was atypical. I grew up with many, many people who were frequent users. I always preferred them to the angry alcoholics. The potheads were laid back, calm, and quiet, if a bit silly. I wanted to add my brother in law's life to this discussion. When he was a young man, he was very popular with the ladies. His first serious girlfriend was an unstable person. She physically attacked him during arguments. My husband viewed him after one of these attacks and said, "it looked Iike he had been attacked by a wild animal. His body was covered in bite marks and burns." There was never a second girlfriend in my brother in law's life. He was a severe alcoholic. To his credit, he did stop drinking alcohol, but he continued the daily pot use. What I saw was a basically a good man, but a man who was emotionally stunted. His life revolved around work (he was good at his job), smoking weed and collecting pets . . . many, many pets. When we would see him at family gatherings, he was always very uncomfortable and would spend a great deal of time outside smoking. When we went to my in-laws' house for holidays, brother in law spent the majority of his time asleep or watching television. This extended family would often rent a beach house for a week during the summer. brother in law introduced all of his cousin's kids to weed on these vacations. Due to the knowledge of that and his complete lack of safety issues, I simply could not allow brother in law to take my kids anywhere unsupervised. My late husband and I discussed this many times. Neither one of us felt confident in brother in law's ability to keep the kids safe. I know that was extremely hard on brother in law after my husband's (his brother's) death. He loved my kids very much and wanted to spend time with them. I couldn't allow it. I knew he was still smoking weed daily. It is my opinion that brother in law's self-medication is what kept him from coping with my husband's suicide. Three years later, brother in law took his own life in the same way. brother in law was a hurt man. His choice to daily wash his pain away with weed kept him from finding a wife and having kids of his own. He said something years ago which sums up his life. He had just had his fortieth birthday and he said, "I still think like a kid!" He was a middle-aged child - no maturity whatsoever. [/QUOTE]
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