Dear Sugar: Is My Husband's Pot Habit A Problem?
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
If someone smokes pot multiple times a day, but is still a highly functional partner, parent, and worker — is there a problem? That's the question to the Sugars from a letter writer whose husband has been a habitual marijuana smoker for years. If it is a problem, she wonders, is it his or hers?
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| 0:00.0 | Must remember, do not forget. |
| 0:07.0 | Remind me to bring photo ID. |
| 0:11.0 | Reminder, set. Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, love. |
| 0:19.0 | However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May. |
| 0:24.1 | Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. UK slash voter ID. |
| 0:29.2 | Dear Sugar is supported by |
| 0:42.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heart sick. Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your |
| 0:46.2 | ears. I'm Cheryl Strade. I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio. |
| 0:51.6 | Oh dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:59.0 | Share some little sweet days with me. |
| 1:05.0 | I check my bell-bives every day. |
| 1:20.0 | Oh in the sugar you see in my way. |
| 1:29.9 | Hey Cheryl, Hi Steve. So today we're going to talk about pot. Yes. And as somebody who is not a devout pot user but but a pretty happy content pot user, this letter was pretty illuminating |
| 1:36.4 | because it made me aware that it is also a drug and like any drug, it's in the hands of the user how serious you use it and |
| 1:44.9 | what kind of problems it reeks in your life and so you know this for me was a |
| 1:50.8 | little bit of a wake-up call I have pot in this category of totally benign. |
| 1:55.1 | And that is a toweringly stupid and naive perspective, |
| 2:00.0 | and this letter is evidence of that. |
| 2:02.1 | Right. |
| 2:02.3 | I think you're not alone in that belief. |
| 2:05.0 | We seem to have no problem being able to think about alcohol |
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