High Number Of Phoenix Moms And Teachers Admit Pot Use

[DeSwiss]

High Number Of Moms Admit Pot Use
Site Finds Moms, Teachers Smoking Pot

POSTED: 11:52 am PDT May 18, 2007

PHOENIX -- A number of mothers in the Phoenix area admit they use marijuana to wind down after a long day, television station KPHO reported. Shay Pausa surveyed hundreds of mothers through her Web site, Chikii.com. She targeted women in affluent suburban areas.

"These were middle to upper-middle class women, professional women, mommies. We had some that were members of the PTA and one school teacher even reported," Pausa said. They're women like Jan, who's 30 and has one child. "I like it just to relax, if I'm very stressed out and I just need some time, just to relax. It's good for that," Jan said.

Sue is 37 and has two kids. "But I've also used it for headaches. I've used it when I've been sick with the stomach flu, when I've been really nauseous and, I mean, I need to function. So it's in my medicine cabinet," Sue said.

Of the hundreds of mothers Pausa surveyed, 52 percent said they smoke pot at least 10 times a year. Twenty-seven percent said they smoke it one to seven times a week. Some of the women even said they would someday tell their kids about their secret. That's what most concerns some anti-drug groups.

"So what kind of message is that sending to a child? If it's OK to smoke pot in the house, is it OK to steal? Bottom line, it's illegal," said Sarah Christiansen of NotMyKid.org.

So where do the women get marijuana? Some said they drop hints among friends until they find one that shares the habit. Others said they grow it themselves.

http://www.fox5vegas.com/family/13347772/detail.html

*** - I don't understand. If they have that many pot smoking mom's there, then why isn't Arizona BLUE???

[Bombtrack]

1. Arizona just keeps becoming a more appealing state

my whole life I've known I should like it, and I've only been there once recently.

[DesertRat]

11. Don't forget our two Senators...McCain and Kyl

:puke:

[aquart]

15. Now I know why my contractor's moving there.

And just when we finally found a good one.

[MadHound]

2. Yeah, so?

Why is this news?

[lonestarnot]

3. bwwwwwwwwwwwa

:rofl: Zonies living up to their name.

[ixion]

4. millions of people smoke pot... so why is it illegal?

:shrug:

non-toxic, non-addictive, non-lethal...when the hell are they going to legalize it?

[qdemn7]

8. Why????

Because it's too easy to GROW it yourself, that's why. If pot was legalized tomorrow what would that do for the beer, wine and spirits profits? They would fall like a rock in Jupiter's gravity, that's what. BUT, the REAL reason is TAXES, TAXES, TAXES. Just think of how much taxes liquor sales provide to all levels of government. When it comes to taxes, politicians are like crack whores with crack. the thought of all that tax money being lost would cause them to....... I don't know, do something REALLLY stupid.

[eridani]

18. People would continue to drink alcohol

Whay would that change, even if some also used pot?

[Clark2008]

43. I was about to ask the same - the two "highs" are different.

I, for one, can't get "high" from pot. All it does to me is make my throat hurt and makes me sleepy. I don't like it (but, I don't begrudge anyone else from using it. I don't care).

I'd still drink (I mean, once I'm not pregnant anymore).

[intheflow]

25. Most people would probably buy it in packs.

Pre-rolled, like cigarettes. You can grow your own tobacco and distill your own booze, but most people don't do it, it's too much of a hassle. Hell, Americans barely even cook anymore, we're totally into prepackaged consumption. So I've always wondered why the government doesn't legalize it and cash in on the tax benefits!

[Warren DeMontague]

37. You know, back when I was in my reckless youth, pot smoking and beer drinking were not mutually

exclusive.

In fact, I seem to remember doing both of them together, quite a bit.

[Warpy]

5. What kind of message?

Pot is better for you than booze is and the government is wrong about it.

[Drum]

6. Amen, sisters....

:D

[rucky]

7. Ahhh, the old slippery slope...

"If it's OK to smoke pot in the house, is it OK to steal?"

Reefer Madness in the 'burbs!

[OnionPatch]

10. Yeah....WTF!!??

So now if you smoke pot, you may as well just break all the other laws, right? :crazy:

[Warren DeMontague]

38. More like, "if it's okay to smoke pot in the house, is it okay to blaspheme, or have sex before

marriage?"

"Is it okay to be friends with a gay person? Is it okay to watch a movie that shows -gasp- naked people?"


Uh, yeah.

[DesertRat]

9. I'm a Phoenix teacher and mom

I live in an upper middle class area and I don't know anyone who smokes pot. I wouldn't even know where to get it if I wanted some. :shrug:

edit: interesting that this Phoenix "news" story is from a Fox station in Las Vegas.

[Spinzonner]

12. More likely that

You don't know if you know anyone who smokes pot

[DesertRat]

22. I guess all of my friends are holding out on me.

[Spinzonner]

34. It would only take ONE

to negate your initial assertion.

[Lost4words]

41. They can tell you dont approve maybe?

there are signs.

[blondeatlast]

48. It doesn't bother me, I just don't know women who do it to "wind down."

Parties, yes, but as framed in this survey, I'm doubtful.

[AlCzervik]

13. i don't know where to get it either but i wouldn't mind it if someone hooked me up.

[DesertRat]

19. I hear ya

;-)

[slampoet]

40. 28% of adults smoke weed as of a 1994 stat I heard and we are told that 50% or more kids smoke it..

...so Statistically you'd have to know fewer than 10 people in order to have any real chance of not knowing someone, or you'd have to live in a very conservative area with only small children.

If you could walk around your neighborhood smoking a joint, i think that you would find a few people who would want to share a hit a even a few that might ask you where to get some since THEY think they don't know anyone who can get it.

Even if you didn't find anyone who joined you, I think that in any neighborhood there would be a HUGE amount of people who wouldn't turn you in. In fact i'd say that Most people wouldn't turn you in. Especially if they knew you and you didn't have or work around children.

[blondeatlast]

47. Same here--(except for the teacher part, altho an ex!)

I'm thinking of my wide circle of acquaintances and don't know any that I can believe would even respond to such a survey, much less that actually smoke pot.

I guess we run in the wrong crowd, DR!

[JNelson6563]

52. Such networks are often pretty tight

You'd be surprised at the people you have contact with who smoke pot but you don't know about it.

Julie

[Gregorian]

14. It's so much fun when the big drug companies get jealous.

Hopefully it's taking the place of Valium.

[aquart]

16. Don't knock Valium.

[ellisonz]

26. Do knock Xanax.

[aquart]

27. Yes. Knock Xanax.

[ellisonz]

29. I think it's probably number 3 on the Bushies favored drug list behind whiskey and cocaine.

[tblue37]

31. I believe her drug of choice is Vicodin. (eom)

[ellisonz]

32. Nope, it's Xanax and also Crack Cocaine.

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/black-sheep/noelle-bush/

She may indeed prefer vicodin, but her arrest was for a fake xanax scrip and then she got busted in rehab with crack.

Edit: She did steal vicodin from the rehabs dispensary.

[emilyg]

30. Hard to get nowadays.

[TahitiNut]

17. Culican or Zacatecas purple? Must be the "Rocky Point connection."

MIL...GHW? :smoke:

[Jed Dilligan]

20. So if you don't come to a full stop at every stop sign,

you might as well be shooting speedballs.

:eyes:

[DeSwiss]

21. Also in the article...

Sue is 37 and has two kids. "But I've also used it for headaches. I've used it when I've been sick with the stomach flu, when I've been really nauseous and, I mean, I need to function. So it's in my medicine cabinet," Sue said.

See, this is why you should always check into people's medicine cabinets when you visit their bathrooms....

:rofl:

[senseandsensibility]

23. delete

eom

[Exultant Democracy]

24. Arizona is starting to turn blue in fact it is a very deep shade of purple already

with a Democratic Gov and 4 of 8 house seats in our control. There is rather large and very conservative Mormon population so there is a limit to how far we can get there.

[ellisonz]

28. Arizona will be blue within 4 election cycles.

It is a simple matter of demographics. Remember when there was talk in 2004 about how Bush was going to do well with Hispanics, well I think the wall has pretty much eneded that fantasy. Arizona is a state in political flux.

:smoke: :smoke:

[BlueIris]

33. I support decriminalization and all, but--what goddamned morons.

[Warren DeMontague]

36. Why are they morons? nt

[Warren DeMontague]

53. Guess I'm not gonna get an answer as to why they're morons. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

35. OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!!!

You mean the $40 Billion a year we spend to keep consenting adults from using a relatively benign plant isn't working?

What "kind of message is it sending the kids?" Well, probably the same message that gays in consenting adult relationships in Texas were sending until the Lawrence SCOTUS decision: That some laws are just fucking idiotic and wrong, and some things just aren't any of the government's business.

"It" is sending the message that the government is full of shit when it tries to dictate personal morality to consenting adults... and that what consenting adults do with their own bodies on their own time is their own business insofar as they aren't getting behind the wheel, harming anyone else, neglecting the kids in question, etc. etc... and that just like not everyone who has an occasional beer or martini is an alcoholic, not everyone who smokes pot recreationally is a drooling, addled dope fiend. It's sending the message that just like in the days of Al Capone, prohibition is a wasteful, idiotic joke--- and that busybody control freaks in our society really ought to find more constructive hobbies than using law enforcement to tell everyone else what to do.

Jesus. I don't even smoke pot anymore- but in the years I've been clean and sober my tolerance for the idiocy of the drug war has somehow gotten even lower. Oddly enough, despite all the trouble I had with booze in my youth, I never felt that throwing people in jail for having a flask of jack daniels would "solve" anybody's drinking problem. And pot is a far less dangerous drug than alcohol. Legalize it, regulate it, Tax it (seeing as it's the number one cash crop in some states $$$) and be done with it. Enough, already.

It's time to get our heads out of our collective ass on this, and I would LIKE our party to lead the way as the United States' standard bearer of personal freedom (as opposed to the theocratic, Christofascist nutjobs who have taken over the other party). If we did this- adopted an across the board agenda of respecting personal choice on matters of reproduction, health, and what one does with one's own body... and reinstating civil liberties, I think we could broaden our appeal to reach many independents, Libertarians, and the disaffected libertarian wing of the GOP.

[slampoet]

39. Millions of Baby Boomer voted to keep Reagan in office and then got their weed from my Generation X

It is called SELFISHNESS.

That is why anyone smokes weed and still is a Republican.


It seem like 90% of the people who say they need a "stress relief" would benefit from being a better person in their everyday life.....

I can't count the amount of people who need pot, counseling, alcohol, pills, or other things to sleep at night, who have jobs that involve killing people or the environment.

"You need me to find you weed so you can sleep at night? Maybe you should stop designing Bombs/Bombers for a living?"

I have had to say this twice in my life.

(for the record i have never gotten weed for anyone who wasn't dying from some awful disease and the last time beyond the statute of limitations)

[Lost4words]

42. I think your post is a little misdirected?

Millions voted against him as well my little genXer. And millions of genXers didnt even bother to vote. I'll admit to the failings of my generation but you have to be realistic about yours as well.

8643

[slampoet]

46. The oldest Gen X was 19 years old in 1984

Your argument doesn't hold water.

Your "little" Gen X'er would be 41 years old by now.

[OnionPatch]

44. Well, this baby boomer

Did NOT vote for Reagan or any other Republican. Not ONCE in my entire life, did I ever vote for a Republican.

We didn't have to get our weed from GenX, either. They got it from us. ;)

[Lost4words]

45. YEA! Me neither!

8643 :hi:

[Telly Savalas]

49. It's a good thing the Minutemen are already present in Arizona

so they can crack down on these ILLEGALS.

[lies and propaganda]

50. Random!!!

why would that constitute as news?

[Neshanic]

51. If that's Phoenix, I wonder what the numbers are for Tucson.