This year I will be spending most of the xmas season at our parent’s lake house up north.
- They have several spare living rooms in the finished living room and consistently invite our siblings and I to stay for a few days for both the Christmas and New Year.
I generally enjoy seeing and spending time with our parents, but staying in their lake house can be genuinely stressful. My dad is always drinking a bunch and the crew of us like to pry in our personal lives and cast doubt and scrutiny. I don’t enjoy feeling interrogated at a family dinner, but that is normal in their household. On top of the uncomfortable feelings, they’re also severely anti-cannabis and have been for as long as I have been alive. Since I’m a weekly cannabis lover, it’s hard staying in our parents’ lake house knowing that I can’t bring any marijuana products with me. However, this year I’m bringing a few cannabis vaporizer pens with me because they have botanical terpenes inside instead of cannabis-derived terpenes like a full spectrum vaporizer cartridge. The latter smells just like marijuana flower products so you can’t genuinely hide using one. But with the botanical terpenes, your vapor odors enjoy candy or fruit. All I had to do was go to the powder room and exhale the vapor into the ceiling vent with the fan switched on. No one said a word and I didn’t gain any weird looks either. I drank with the rest of our family so they assumed I was simply intoxicated from the eggnog instead of being on a drug like cannabis.