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Title: Marin Mom Says Smoking Marijuana Makes Her A Better Parent
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sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
URL Source: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20 ... juana-makes-her-better-parent/
Published: Nov 4, 2017
Author: Betty Yu
Post Date: 2017-11-06 14:52:03 by Gatlin
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Views: 859
Comments: 27
MILL VALLEY (KPIX) — You could call it mother’s little helper. A new survey found that 20 percent of parents use pot. Emma Cunningham is one of them. She’s mom to 10-year-old Julian and 12-year-old Dylan. Keeping up with them isn’t easy, so she says to stay on her game she uses marijuana – regularly – and she isn’t shy about it. “It makes me present and calm and I have two boys, and they fight and they argue with me and so instead of reaching for a glass of wine here and there in the evening when I come home from work I can go downstairs, outside my door and vape,” said Cunningham. Forty-five-year-old Emma lives in Mill Valley, and she’s been smoking marijuana more than 20 years. First as a way to heal aches from a car accident in her 20s. She found that she needed more of it, when she became a stay-at-home mom for 5 years. Emma now works as an executive coordinator and office manager at Eaze – the San Francisco-based marijuana delivery startup. “It doesn’t make me less of a parent because I’m honest about the one thing I need to help me get through the day or get through an evening,” she said. “It’s not all the time but it is most of the time and I think it makes me a better person and a better mom just by being honest about it – because it’s natural.” And what does her husband think? “He’s very proud of me – he’s proud that I’m open and honest,” Cunningham said. A recent study on the “Modern Marijuana Consumer” by Eaze found that one in five cannabis users in California are parents. And of those – 63 percent consume it daily. Emma always keeps her products in a locked bag, and out of sight from her children. She vapes and smokes flower but says she never uses in front of them. She does talk about it openly with her sons. “Much like medication that most of us take – Advil, any medication, it substitutes that for me and I would prefer if I had a headache to partake in marijuana than I would popping pills,” she said. Anna Lembke is chief of Stanford University’s Addiction Medicine Program. “I’d just like to reach out to her and say there are better, safer, more effective ways for her to achieve the same thing,” said Lembke. By using marijuana daily in this way not only is she exposing herself to physical harm because of smoking… but she probably is likely after 20 years of using marijuana at the very least physiologically dependent on it and probably addicted.” The CDC says it has strong evidence that marijuana use can lead to addiction, and breathing and memory problems. “I take her at her word that she feels that it is helping her be more calm and more present but I think especially when it comes to mood altering substances, it’s very important to check in with others to access the objectivity of our own subjective experience,” said Lembke. Using marijuana hasn’t come without judgement for Emma. “A few of the moms were just appalled,” said Cunningham. Others pulled me aside, because they were curious about using marijuana. She says she wants to help erase the stoner stigma. Poster Comment: “Better parenting with marijuana, it’s possible, it’s definitely possible, learn your strains and know that it’s okay if you need a little extra help,” said Cunningham.
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#1. To: Gatlin, misterwhite, GrandIsland (#0)
Of course it does. She is much better parent, that you guys would ever be. Uptight self-righteous pricks ;)
Of course it does. Read the following you contemptuous self-proclaimed pothead and tell everyone why you definitely feel that a mom smoking marijuana makes a better parent. WYOMING, Mich. — Six-month-old Noah Johnson, who died last week from suspected child abuse, was born with marijuana in his system and weighed only 12 pounds when his decomposing body was brought to a Grand Rapids hospital. Those are some of the revelations contained in documents from child protective proceedings involving the young mother charged with his death. Lovily Johnson, 22, was arraigned Monday on charges of felony murder and first- degree child abuse. Investigators say Noah was left buckled in a car seat for two days. During that time, he was “knowingly and intentionally deprived’’ the necessities of life, court records show. The mother did not call 911 and instead asked her father to drive her and Noah to Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital the afternoon of July 19, court records show. “Noah’s body was in advanced stages of decomposition,’’ court records show. “His stomach was obviously bloated, his eyes were glossy, and he was emitting a strong, foul odor. Noah had blood on his genitals and buttocks.’’ When Wyoming police returned to Johnson’s apartment on McKee Avenue SW that evening, the temperature was 90.5 degrees in the room where Noah had been left. Lovily Johnson told investigators she left her son alone for about 12 hours on July 17. She fed him a bottle in the morning, but did not change his diaper, court records show. She spent time with friends and smoked marijuana, investigators wrote in court documents. She was also gone for about eight hours on July 18 and did not check on Noah when she returned home that afternoon. She left the house again and did not return until the morning hours of July 19, according to court records. “Ms. Johnson admitted smoking marijuana during that time,’’ an investigator wrote. “She did not check on Noah when she returned home.’’ [The number of abused and neglected children in Michigan has risen to its highest level in more than 25 years. Tap to read more.] She left the morning of July 19 to run errands, stopping at Family Fare, a gas station and a bank. “She returned home that afternoon, checked on Noah and found him unresponsive. Ms. Johnson contacted her father for a ride to the hospital. She did not call 911.’’ The disturbing details are contained in a petition by the state to take custody of Johnson’s two-year-old daughter. A Kent County referee on Friday granted that request. The girl, who was born in March, 2015 and Noah, who was born on Jan. 6, tested positive for marijuana via a meconium screen, court records show. That led to Child Protective Services complaints alleging abuse on Johnson’s part. Another Child Protective Services complaint was filed against Lovily Johnson earlier this month, alleging improper supervision of Noah. That came after Wyoming police responded to Family Video at 3556 Byron Center Avenue SW on a report of a child left alone in a vehicle for 20 minutes. “Officers located Noah in a vehicle belonging to Ms. Johnson’s boyfriend,’’ court records show. “The vehicle was unlocked, not running and the windows were slightly rolled down.’’ The responding officer stated that Johnson “did not appear to care the child was in the vehicle and unsupervised and she kept defending why she needed multiple DVDs.’’ Police located in the vehicle a large glass marijuana smoking pipe, a skull-shaped glass marijuana water smoking pipe, a plastic bag with suspected marijuana, a digital scale and a metal marijuana grinder. The day after her son’s death, Lovily Johnson admitted to suffering depression. “She reported previous suicide attempts and was observed with linear scars on her left forearm,’’ court records show. “Ms. Johnson reported that hospital staff requested she go to Pine Rest on three occasions and she refused to go each time.’’ Johnson has a probable cause hearing scheduled for Aug. 2 in Wyoming District Court. If convicted of felony murder, she faces mandatory life in prison. First-degree child abuse is punishable by any term up to life.
A-Hole is one of the sites pro drug liberals... just like his buddies, Hondope, Decktard, T-paper and Ba ba ba... Buck the stupid F***
To: Gatlin A-Hole I simply fail to understand how anyone with any intelligence at all can read the numerous media articles and court records where mothers were smoking marijuana to the extent they neglected their child and the child suffered or died....then say, “of course a mom smoking marijuana makes her a better parent.” [Paraphrasing]
I am glad that your mutual adoration club is gathering. But where is Mr Whitie?
I thought about it, but there is so much wrong with what she's doing I didn't know where to begin.
You need to support your buddies, so they don't feel alone in this pothead infested forum.
I provide inspiration. Looks like Gatlin stepped up. Now if I can talk Roscoe into coming back we'd really kick some ass.
He's still licking his wounds from all the beatings he got here.
I'm glad that pot is the catalyst that brings you close to the Dem, socialist and fag supporting posters. I bet you and Meguro would be pot loving pals, if Stone would let that freak of nature pole smoker rub elbows with you.
Seriously? A majority of Republicans support marijuana legalization For the first time in nearly 50 years of Gallup polling on the question, a majority of American Republicans say they support marijuana legalization.
Respond to my original point... you'd rub elbows with ANYONE (BLM, OWS, Dems, Socialist, ANTIFA, FredMertz, A-hole, Meguro) that supports legal drugs... wouldn't ya?
You mean like 51% of Republicans do?
lol... yeah, ok. Don't bother showing proof of your bullshit... I don't need to see another poll showing Shitlary will easily win within 24 hours of the election. There is a slight rise in marijuana legalization support in the (R)'s... but all these heroin overdoses have set you drug lovers back 25 years. Personally, I love it. Just like AIDS was brought about by Mother Nature... fentanyl will wipe out natures WEAK... that just can't survive without living in servitude to a substance I loath weakness. I encourage natural selection to eliminate those too weak to get high on life ONLY or too weak to not act upon any freak of nature sexual urges.
Was the graph too difficult to decipher? I guess they didn't teach you how to read those when you got your GED. No wonder you became a cop. fentanyl will wipe out natures WEAK... Wow...cheering the deaths of THOUSANDS of Americans. What a pathetic little man you are.
Do you have a graph showing how many heroin addicts support fentanyl? Lmmfao
How about a graph that shows the average IQ of cops? Hint - it's below 100.
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#8. To: A Pole (#1)
Mom Says Smoking Marijuana Makes Her A Better Parent
Mich. mom says she smoked pot, ignored son while he died in car seat
#9. To: Gatlin (#8)
#10. To: GrandIsland (#9)
#11. To: Gatlin, misterwhite, GrandIsland (#10)
To: Gatlin A-Hole
#12. To: A Pole (#11)
But where is Mr Whitie?
#13. To: misterwhite (#12)
I didn't know where to begin.
#14. To: A Pole, Gatlin (#13)
You need to support your buddies, so they don't feel alone in this pothead infested forum.
#16. To: misterwhite. A Pole, Gatlin (#14)
Now if I can talk Roscoe into coming back we'd really kick some ass.
#17. To: Deckard, A hole (#16)
#18. To: GrandIsland (#17)
I'm glad that pot is the catalyst that brings you close to the Dem, socialist and fag supporting posters.
#19. To: Deckard (#18)
#20. To: GrandIsland (#19)
that supports legal drugs
#21. To: Deckard (#20)
(Edited)
#22. To: GrandIsland (#21)
(Edited)
Don't bother showing proof of your bullshit.
#23. To: Deckard (#22)
#25. To: GrandIsland (#23)
Do you have a graph
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