Just get your own place and grow there.
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I think I speak your mom’s language.
Im turning 40 in July. I’m a woman with two teenage kids and I’m a teacher in the local public school. I’m the normalist normal person that has ever normaled. She likely doesn’t know what indoor growing looks like, and she likely fears it’s going to get weird and she will end up living amongst the plants. Which I am not saying is a bad thing, but obviously something your mom doesn’t want. I get that, she’s been making this house her home for a long time.
Here is a picture of my drug operation.
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Tough spot to be in and I think that there isn’t a lot of arguments you can do. Only thing you can do is trying to get her see it from your perspective and why it’s so important for you. I have been in the same situation, but with an ex girlfriend and it didn’t end well.
In the end, the only option you really got is to get a super cheap apartment where your plants live. All other options will be on the expense of your relationship with your mother.
Pz 
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Does she know your brother and his fam partake?
I’m thinking about whether you might be able to cite Tikkun Olam in bringing her around?
Your odor control game is probably going to have to be really on point
ETA: Just to be clear, I didn’t mean the Israeli medical cannabis people, I meant the concept of healing the world.
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just put a shower curtain in front of it
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Tell them drugs are expensive
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Other thoughts… you’re in a legal state. You aren’t running a drug operation, you’re providing yourself with high quality legal cannabis rather than buying it from a legal commercial operation (saving money and making a higher quality product where you have control over inputs, etc). You’re exercising your right, as an adult, to grow a plant. Also it sounds like you’re a highly responsible adult, so…
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I’m pretty stuck at home were both old and have medical problems.
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I haven’t been able to read all the replies yet, but as far as convincing family to allow indoor growing vs outdoor here’s my opinion.
It seems that your family is already okay with growing, correct? Since you are already “allowed” to grow outdoors. Well, wouldn’t growing indoors be more secure for you and your family? It would allow for more privacy as well as the ability to control certain things like the climate, amount of light, etc.
So I would try to make part of the conversation about family security. Growing cannabis plants outside on the property could potentially attract some attention. Even if it’s a legal grow in a legal state there’s the possibility of someone seeing the plants and deciding to take them for themselves. It would be more secure for the family and the home to grow the plants indoors.
If family members have an issue with growing indoors due to limited space, well, there are ways of doing it that take up barely more than 2x2 feet. Lots of members here have tiny indoor grows. Or heck it could even be done smaller in something like a Space Bucket or @PhilCuisine’s Phototron.
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Perfect response. This is what I’m looking for. More please!
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I would continue growing outside for now but tell your mum that you really enjoy the gardening aspect of it and you’re going to set up a tent/wardrobe/whatever to grow some chillis or orchids as you enjoy the mental peace it brings you. This way you can get things set up, get the lights and pots in and do a couple of rounds and show her that it’s cheap and quiet and not taking over the house etc to quell her fears. Then calmly pose it as, would it be ok to swap one of the chili plants out for something else?
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Tell her its cbd. No thc, hence no drugs. Is an outside shed/garage an option ? Out of sight out of mind.
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How often does she enter your room?
If never then just grow it in your room and grow strains you know don’t smell, or smell like fruit.
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You mentioned a brother and family who benefits from it. That would be the avenue I would take to gain some indoor space… in his home.
Then continue your outdoor at you and mom’s place.
the outdoor shed/garage suggestion is another good one. That’s where i’m at… my own lil personal space.
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start the plan by getting all the equipment you need. grow some veggies or peepers or flowers etc. as a “hobby” tell her your bored want to try new things. eventually toss a plant in and grow it out small and show her it aint so bad.
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Tell her the burning bush was weed and moses was a pot head. That should work
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Make your own it’s cheaper…
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I’d just make the deal of - you won’t smell it or see it and see if she is okay with a trial run
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If you live at home depending on how mobile your family members are grow in an area they can’t get to
Attic, basement garage
When my mom was alive she never went into the attic or basement
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My argument for growing my own was always this:
If I grow it myself, I know EXACTLY what’s in it. I know it wasn’t treated with any harmful pesticides or cancer causing plant growth regulators. Nah minimal heavy metals as possible (which can accumulate in the plant)
As for indoor vs. outdoor:
I can control the environment. Make sure the buds don’t get moldy (unlike outside). Less likely to have to spray them with pesticides, etc.
It’s also much less visible/noticeable to neighbors indoors. You don’t have to worry about someone robbing your plants or targeting your house.
These days with all the grow tents and cheap carbon filters available, you can do it indoors without anyone being any the wiser. No smell, no light leaking out, etc.
Good luck man! I remember what it was like desperately wanting to be able to grow indoors and not being able to.
But hey, at least worst case you can still do it outdoors! So you can still at least grow your own.
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