Anyone else experience this?

wwfjdraw

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Ok so I call my uncle who's in construction who I thought I was friends with, and tried to be nice and offer him a job. Honestly with good intentions. I ask my aunt to ask him if he wanted to build for me a plant light stand. I figured he has all this extra metal laying around his shop that this would be a super way for him to re use. And for my money to go towards family instead of a stranger.

The next thing I know after I tell my Aunt what plants they are she for no reason starts to be rude to me. I mean seriously what is her problem? Meanwhile I hear my uncle getting so angry that he starts yelling at the top of his lungs with disrespect about me to her saying "that's ok he can just get caught and go to jail".

I try to tell her to tell him that his statement doesn't make any sense since I have a medical card and that I will not be going to jail. But it's no use all I can keep hearing from both of them even though they have been informed of my card and the laws is "that's ok, he can just get caught and go to jail".

I tell them again about my card for a third time and then I hear her snap back at me saying that my card doesn't allow me to grow it though. I then inform her that it does in Washington state and up to 15 plants. She then says sarcastically back to me like she does about everything she is ever proven wrong about "um uh huh, are you suuuuuuuuure about that, oh it's legal you say, suuuuuuuuureeeeee it is, whatever you say". I then tell her it's not what I say at all, it's what a doctor says and it is therefore medicine. And ofcourse she ends the conversation with no apology of any kind. And more jail talk.

My questions to the forum is this:
Has anyone else experienced this negative disrespectful response from friends or family members for no reason at all too?
Does anyone know why? Because I'm baffled and can't understand it.
What do you do when the law being the law isn't proof enough of what the law is?
Does anyone know why when you speak to your elders they have a tendency to yell the repeated same misconception even AFTER being properly informed of law?
Forgive me if I'm wrong but I find it amazing that I'm almost 29 in a couple months and yet I still seem more mature then my entire family of elders.
Oh and compared to the rest of my family my Aunt and uncle are the mature ones. Now that's scary.
 

wwfjdraw

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PS. I remember when my uncle use to brag to me about him illegally getting high when he was a kid, but me as an adult legally is wrong. DOUBLE STANDARD ANYONE.
 

bud nugbong

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jelousy i would say... or they are just ignorant.

And just go to a grow shop and buy a setup, Im sure you could get it cheaper than what your hemroid uncle would charge you.
 

cheechako

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Let me get this right...

You told someone that you choose a certain lifestyle, and now that someone - who seems set in their beliefs against this lifestyle - is acting like a nut and not listening to reason.

Nope. Nobody else has ever experience anything like that. You're the first.
 

hornedfrog2000

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lmao. Who does this? Did you ever wonder if his wife is extremely against weed before you just started blurting this shit out? Maybe its something you should be asking him in private ya know? Ever think he got his ass chewed out after she hung up the phone with you? Don't fuck with a mans marriage man. You might have gotten a different reception if you asked him in confidence, you know, not through his wife...

I'm not trying to be a dick or nothing, but I know a lot of women that try to keep their men out of trouble and that's why I don't get in the middle of it. If you got something kinda borderline socially taboo you might want to take them aside and then respect their response if they are doing whatever for their family reasons. They will pick their family over you 99% of the time fyi.
 

unohu69

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yes. the root cause is people suck. get used to it. the older you get, the less use for other people you will have.
 

wwfjdraw

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Let me get this right...

You told someone that you choose a certain lifestyle, and now that someone - who seems set in their beliefs against this lifestyle - is acting like a nut and not listening to reason.

Nope. Nobody else has ever experience anything like that. You're the first.
If taking medicine for medical problems is a lifestyle. I may not agree with lifestyle decisions that they have made but I certainly don't get off on using that as an excuse to be rude or offensive. And with their age. I expected some maturity.
 

hornedfrog2000

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If taking medicine for medical problems is a lifestyle. I may not agree with lifestyle decisions that they have made but I certainly don't get off on using that as an excuse to be rude or offensive. And with their age. I expected some maturity.

You gotta understand how these people are thinking. They probably have heard that the feds do not approve and hear about placing getting raided even though it's "legal" in the state. People are going to see it however they want.
 

cheechako

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If taking medicine for medical problems is a lifestyle. I may not agree with lifestyle decisions that they have made but I certainly don't get off on using that as an excuse to be rude or offensive. And with their age. I expected some maturity.
It is still a choice. You could disagree with the side effects or on some (misguided) principle or whatever. I was prescribed anti-depressants. I choose illegal weed instead. You got a script. Good for you. Some people hate both of us equally. Educate the ones you can. Walk away from the lost causes.

You don't have to disrespect. You didn't. That's what it is all about - mutual respect. All too often, family has little to do with that.

p.s. From what little you said about them, I think it is save to assume that they think: a) it is a lifestyle choice, and b) if a doc was giving you meds, you would go get pills like everyone else and not grow weed.
 

wwfjdraw

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lmao. Who does this? Did you ever wonder if his wife is extremely against weed before you just started blurting this shit out? Maybe its something you should be asking him in private ya know? Ever think he got his ass chewed out after she hung up the phone with you? Don't fuck with a mans marriage man. You might have gotten a different reception if you asked him in confidence, you know, not through his wife...

I'm not trying to be a dick or nothing, but I know a lot of women that try to keep their men out of trouble and that's why I don't get in the middle of it. If you got something kinda borderline socially taboo you might want to take them aside and then respect their response if they are doing whatever for their family reasons. They will pick their family over you 99% of the time fyi.
Well technically she's my family by blood and he's mine by marriage. And I thought since she has been my family my whole 29 years of my time of life on this planet that. By now she should know I'm responsible enough to know what I'm doing. I don't see how a. Construction job is fucking with a mans marriage. And as for me pulling them aside. I had no intention of telling anyone what plants I was growing. I don't know how you remember it. But they way that I remember it is didn't even tell her it was for weed at first. In fact I told her it was for growing roses in doors. But since she wouldn't believe me no matter how much I tried to convince her I decided that since she so badly wants to think it's weed and since it really was weed then why spend my time arguing with her. So yea I told her tge truth. But no it's not the way you make it sound like I just came out with it.
 

wwfjdraw

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lmao. Who does this? Did you ever wonder if his wife is extremely against weed before you just started blurting this shit out? Maybe its something you should be asking him in private ya know? Ever think he got his ass chewed out after she hung up the phone with you? Don't fuck with a mans marriage man. You might have gotten a different reception if you asked him in confidence, you know, not through his wife...

I'm not trying to be a dick or nothing, but I know a lot of women that try to keep their men out of trouble and that's why I don't get in the middle of it. If you got something kinda borderline socially taboo you might want to take them aside and then respect their response if they are doing whatever for their family reasons. They will pick their family over you 99% of the time fyi.
You gotta understand how these people are thinking. They probably have heard that the feds do not approve and hear about placing getting raided even though it's "legal" in the state. People are going to see it however they want.
Well if that it. All she had do. Was say so. But instead she didn't instead she was rude and she never mentioned anything like that.
 

hornedfrog2000

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Well if that it. All she had do. Was say so. But instead she didn't instead she was rude and she never mentioned anything like that.
She probably assumed you're an idiot. Not saying you are but some people just always have that condescending tone/attitude. My sister does it all the time and it's not just to me. She comes off rude a lot of the time, and frankly she isn't the brightest person either so it just compounds it.
 

AltarNation

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Well technically she's my family by blood and he's mine by marriage. And I thought since she has been my family my whole 29 years of my time of life on this planet that. By now she should know I'm responsible enough to know what I'm doing. I don't see how a. Construction job is fucking with a mans marriage. And as for me pulling them aside. I had no intention of telling anyone what plants I was growing. I don't know how you remember it. But they way that I remember it is didn't even tell her it was for weed at first. In fact I told her it was for growing roses in doors. But since she wouldn't believe me no matter how much I tried to convince her I decided that since she so badly wants to think it's weed and since it really was weed then why spend my time arguing with her. So yea I told her tge truth. But no it's not the way you make it sound like I just came out with it.
Well you set yourself up nicely for this one by trying to deceive her first. You acted like you had something to hide, and then you are surprised when conservative fuckwits jump on ya? Think that one out bro. Honestly it was just a big mistake all around to divulge to such people. I don't know how you don't know your own aunt and uncle well enough to know whether or not it's safe to ask something like that... and even further, I can't understand how you would choose to divulge that information to someone you don't know well enough to know that about.
 

cheechako

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I can't understand how you would choose to divulge that information to someone you don't know well enough to know that about.
Well, there is the risk that they will turn out to be stuck in the Reefer Madness mindset. But doesn't mmj card holder lessen the need for the first rule of grow op?
 

AltarNation

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Well, there is the risk that they will turn out to be stuck in the Reefer Madness mindset. But doesn't mmj card holder lessen the need for the first rule of grow op?
depends on what you mean by that... legally, less risk obviously... but it's not like I don't tell certain people all about my weed smoking because I'm trying to avoid jailtime... I only tell people I know are chill simply because I hate drama...
 

cheechako

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depends on what you mean by that... legally, less risk obviously... but it's not like I don't tell certain people all about my weed smoking because I'm trying to avoid jailtime... I only tell people I know are chill simply because I hate drama...
That's why I said lessen - better off not talking, but not the end of the world if it gets out. Sometimes, though, maybe it is good to get the drama out of the way and find out who you can really count on to be who they seem to be.
 

AltarNation

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That's why I said lessen - better off not talking, but not the end of the world if it gets out. Sometimes, though, maybe it is good to get the drama out of the way and find out who you can really count on to be who they seem to be.
yeah, I can see your point. It just makes me paranoid when crazy people start screaming "HE CAN JUST GO TO JAIL IT'S OKAY"--heh. State legal or not... it's just not the kind of drama I want near me... for all I know they'll start telling my neighbors because they're 'good samaratins' and I'll be robbed before sunrise...
 
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