When I met my fiance she was a teacher, and subject to random testing on a regular basis. She had never smoked herself, and her only real experience with it was an old boyfriend that had been a real slacker-stoner-loser. He just wanted to sit on the couch and play video games and get stoned all day long. Since he was so busy getting high, he figured she could do all the work and support not only his lazy a$$, but also support his habit, which was about a $20 sack a day.
Now she knew when she contacted me on a dating site that I was a non-card carrying MMP, and was cautious about getting too involved until she saw my usage, which at the time was pretty minimal. I mostly just smoked some when I was in an insomnia cycle, a hit or two to get to sleep, or when I was experiencing a FM flair-up. I had, in the past, had a card for a year, but my condition improved enough that no longer needed enough to bother with a card.
So we agreed that I would only keep small amounts at home, and it would always be stored and consumed out in the garage. She was still skeptical about it being medicine, but had seen that I wasn't a slacker just cause I smoked too much dope, so she was OK with the occasional use.
Fast forward about a year and a half, after I had a rather traumatic brain injury that screwed up my whole metabolism and endocrine system. I had run up over two million in medical bills over a one year period, and was taking several medications that were very expensive. I began slowly increasing my usage, and she saw an immediate improvement. We were also going through a financial crisis, and she had been hearing my son (also a patient and grower) talking about how much he was making growing the max allowed by law and selling the extra to a dispensary.
So she comes to me and asks "If you were to get your card, and grow for personal use and profit, how much could you show in profit?" Now right then this was just her asking for info, so I told her to talk to my son, and find out how much he had spent on set up, how much he was spending on utilities and supplies, and how much he was getting when he sold his excess. It wasn't a week later that she came back and said that she had some money she wanted to invest in me. She paid for my card, and she contributed about a third of my initial start up expenses.
My son came down from WA and gave me some stuff, and we went shopping for the rest. We built my room that day, and set in the starts he had brought me. That was the first weekend of June this year (2013). As I have gone through the process, taking care of my garden, she has not only seen my use increase from a hit or two a couple times a week to about two-three bowls a day. I still have only gotten high once accidentally when I tried a new vaporizer pipe (a very cool tool that you use a regular lighter to bring to vaping temps) Around the same time that I started growing we took in a room mate who is a patient. He and I began smoking recreationally on occasion, and so she has seen me high, or at least as high as I like to get.
Now she is totally supportive, helps me with my garden, and is even enjoying the aroma of buds hanging in the bedroom closet to dry. I don't know if she will ever try it herself, as her job may still test her, but she has expressed a curiosity about it. She's no longer teaching, so maybe after a while in the new career she may feel safer trying it. I do know that only reason she hasn't is the work issue.
By the way, here are some pics of the vaporizer pipe along with how it works:
This is the bowl. Notice how clean it is. This is after vaping at least a hundred bowls.
This is the cap. It has a ceramic plug that is porous. The lighter flame heats this plug up to vaporize the medicine.
This is the whole pipe assembled.
This makes for a great portable vaporizer! It never needs to be recharged, and I can put a dab of hash on top of the marijuana if I want. As long as there's enough pot in the bowl to hold the melt above the screen it works great, and as you can see in the pic, there isn't any residue.
Now she knew when she contacted me on a dating site that I was a non-card carrying MMP, and was cautious about getting too involved until she saw my usage, which at the time was pretty minimal. I mostly just smoked some when I was in an insomnia cycle, a hit or two to get to sleep, or when I was experiencing a FM flair-up. I had, in the past, had a card for a year, but my condition improved enough that no longer needed enough to bother with a card.
So we agreed that I would only keep small amounts at home, and it would always be stored and consumed out in the garage. She was still skeptical about it being medicine, but had seen that I wasn't a slacker just cause I smoked too much dope, so she was OK with the occasional use.
Fast forward about a year and a half, after I had a rather traumatic brain injury that screwed up my whole metabolism and endocrine system. I had run up over two million in medical bills over a one year period, and was taking several medications that were very expensive. I began slowly increasing my usage, and she saw an immediate improvement. We were also going through a financial crisis, and she had been hearing my son (also a patient and grower) talking about how much he was making growing the max allowed by law and selling the extra to a dispensary.
So she comes to me and asks "If you were to get your card, and grow for personal use and profit, how much could you show in profit?" Now right then this was just her asking for info, so I told her to talk to my son, and find out how much he had spent on set up, how much he was spending on utilities and supplies, and how much he was getting when he sold his excess. It wasn't a week later that she came back and said that she had some money she wanted to invest in me. She paid for my card, and she contributed about a third of my initial start up expenses.
My son came down from WA and gave me some stuff, and we went shopping for the rest. We built my room that day, and set in the starts he had brought me. That was the first weekend of June this year (2013). As I have gone through the process, taking care of my garden, she has not only seen my use increase from a hit or two a couple times a week to about two-three bowls a day. I still have only gotten high once accidentally when I tried a new vaporizer pipe (a very cool tool that you use a regular lighter to bring to vaping temps) Around the same time that I started growing we took in a room mate who is a patient. He and I began smoking recreationally on occasion, and so she has seen me high, or at least as high as I like to get.
Now she is totally supportive, helps me with my garden, and is even enjoying the aroma of buds hanging in the bedroom closet to dry. I don't know if she will ever try it herself, as her job may still test her, but she has expressed a curiosity about it. She's no longer teaching, so maybe after a while in the new career she may feel safer trying it. I do know that only reason she hasn't is the work issue.
By the way, here are some pics of the vaporizer pipe along with how it works:
This is the bowl. Notice how clean it is. This is after vaping at least a hundred bowls.
This is the cap. It has a ceramic plug that is porous. The lighter flame heats this plug up to vaporize the medicine.
This is the whole pipe assembled.
This makes for a great portable vaporizer! It never needs to be recharged, and I can put a dab of hash on top of the marijuana if I want. As long as there's enough pot in the bowl to hold the melt above the screen it works great, and as you can see in the pic, there isn't any residue.
, but I think growers are usually just good people. 
hahahaha
