MILL VALLEY (KPIX) You could call it mothers little helper. A new survey found that 20 percent of parents use pot.
Emma Cunningham is one of them. Shes mom to 10-year-old Julian and 12-year-old Dylan. Keeping up with them isnt easy, so she says to stay on her game she uses marijuana regularly and she isnt 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 shes 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 doesnt make me less of a parent because Im honest about the one thing I need to help me get through the day or get through an evening, she said. Its 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 its natural.
And what does her husband think?
Hes very proud of me hes proud that Im 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 Universitys Addiction Medicine Program.
Id 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, its very important to check in with others to access the objectivity of our own subjective experience, said Lembke.
Using marijuana hasnt 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, its possible, its definitely possible, learn your strains and know that its okay if you need a little extra help, said Cunningham.
#1: A Pole To: Gatlin, misterwhite, GrandIsland (#0)
Of course it does. She is much better parent, that you guys would ever be. Uptight self-righteous pricks ;)
A Pole posted on 2017-11-06 15:01:36 Reply Private Reply
#2: misterwhite To: Gatlin (#0)
My guess is that's the only job she could get.
misterwhite posted on 2017-11-06 15:18:49 Reply Private Reply
#3: Gatlin To: A Pole (#1)
The only thing she told us was that she had smoked some marijuana early in the evening, Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse said.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/03/texas-mom-accused-killing-2- kids-hours-after-deputies-visit-home.html
Marijuana didnt help much here to make Sarah Henderson a better parent .now, did it?Except maybe the marijuana she smoked made here more relaxed as she pulled the trigger each time to kill her two beautiful children .ya think?
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-06 15:25:51 Reply Private Reply
#4: Pinguinite To: Gatlin (#0)
This claim:
says something very different that this:
If it's supposed to be, it's obviously flawed logic. In no way would I believe the first claim. The second, I could.
Pinguinite posted on 2017-11-06 15:31:24 Reply Private Reply
#5: Gatlin To: A Pole (#1)
Johnson spent time with friends that day and smoked marijuana, court records show.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand- rapids/index.ssf/2017/07/room_infant_died_in_reached_90.html
Marijuana didnt help much here to make Lovily Johnson a better parent .now, did it?Gatlin posted on 2017-11-06 15:42:26 Reply Private Reply
#6: A Pole To: Gatlin (#5)
A Pole posted on 2017-11-06 18:54:41 Reply Private Reply
#7: Gatlin To: A Pole (#6)
Your foolish pothead inconsequential opinion is absurd and is of no significant importance.
Nothing a self-confessed pothead can say about smoking marijuana making a mother a better parent can be held in belief or in the acceptance of something as true.
As I now say, I will continue to present the negative aspects of marijuana for open consideration by all:
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-06 20:58:15 Reply Private Reply
#8: Gatlin To: A Pole (#1)
Read the following you contemptuous self-proclaimed pothead and tell everyone why you definitely feel that a mom smoking marijuana makes a better parent.
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-06 22:42:07 Reply Private Reply
#9: GrandIsland To: Gatlin (#8)
GrandIsland posted on 2017-11-06 22:50:36 Reply Private Reply
#10: Gatlin To: GrandIsland (#9)
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]
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-07 00:05:22 Reply Private Reply
#11: A Pole To: Gatlin, misterwhite, GrandIsland (#10)
I am glad that your mutual adoration club is gathering. But where is Mr Whitie?
A Pole posted on 2017-11-07 04:26:29 Reply Private Reply
#12: misterwhite To: A Pole (#11)
I thought about it, but there is so much wrong with what she's doing I didn't know where to begin.
misterwhite posted on 2017-11-07 09:08:41 Reply Private Reply
#13: A Pole To: misterwhite (#12)
You need to support your buddies, so they don't feel alone in this pothead infested forum.
A Pole posted on 2017-11-07 16:39:56 Reply Private Reply
#14: misterwhite To: A Pole, Gatlin (#13)
I provide inspiration. Looks like Gatlin stepped up. Now if I can talk Roscoe into coming back we'd really kick some ass.
misterwhite posted on 2017-11-08 11:41:29 Reply Private Reply
#15: CZ82 To: misterwhite (#14)
I thought he kicked the bucket at the same time the "Rear" Admiral did?
CZ82 posted on 2017-11-17 06:32:45 Reply Private Reply
#16: Deckard To: misterwhite. A Pole, Gatlin (#14)
He's still licking his wounds from all the beatings he got here.
Deckard posted on 2017-11-17 06:34:07 Reply Private Reply
#17: GrandIsland To: Deckard, A hole (#16)
GrandIsland posted on 2017-11-17 06:38:02 Reply Private Reply
#18: Deckard To: GrandIsland (#17)
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.
Deckard posted on 2017-11-17 06:47:48 Reply Private Reply
#19: GrandIsland To: Deckard (#18)
GrandIsland posted on 2017-11-17 06:51:08 Reply Private Reply
#20: Deckard To: GrandIsland (#19)
You mean like 51% of Republicans do?
Deckard posted on 2017-11-17 06:53:32 Reply Private Reply
#21: GrandIsland To: Deckard (#20)
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.
GrandIsland posted on 2017-11-17 07:02:57 Reply Private Reply
#22: Deckard To: GrandIsland (#21)
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.
Deckard posted on 2017-11-17 07:06:16 Reply Private Reply
#23: GrandIsland To: Deckard (#22)
Lmmfao
GrandIsland posted on 2017-11-17 07:08:00 Reply Private Reply
#24: Deckard To: GrandIsland (#21)
Like you? How much alcohol do you consume you drunken sot?
Does booze count as "getting high on life"?
Stupid assclown!
Deckard posted on 2017-11-17 07:09:23 Reply Private Reply
#25: Deckard To: GrandIsland (#23)
How about a graph that shows the average IQ of cops?
Hint - it's below 100.
Deckard posted on 2017-11-17 07:10:20 Reply Private Reply
#26: misterwhite To: CZ82 (#15)
Nah. Alive and well, writing books and opening his own web site.
misterwhite posted on 2017-11-17 10:59:26 Reply Private Reply
#27: misterwhite To: Deckard (#18)
What was the question? "Would you rather have legal marijuana or be diagnosed with cancer?"
misterwhite posted on 2017-11-17 11:04:55 Reply Private Reply