Trees, please help me with my project to inform my parents of the benefits of marijuana.

My parents are very much against marijuana, and it hurts me. I feel like if they ever found out that they would be ashamed of me, which brings me to this. I want to put together basically a folder of reports, studies, facts, quotes, stories, and really anything else that shows marijuana for what it really is. So, if anyone has anything of the sort that they wouldn't mind posting, I'd really love and appreciate the help. Just things that could help ease a parents mind about the whole situation, maybe even some words from other parents about the topic. I just want to be honest with my parents because I love them to death and it's really been brining me down lately that I have to hide it (mainly because my older brother went down the wrong road, and, because he also smoked pot, my parents attributed his failures and his problems to the weed). I'm a 19 year old guy who plans to attend Oakland University in the spring and pursue my dream of becoming an art teacher. I started smoking in my senior year of high school and it's helped dramatically with mood improvement, motivation, relationships, and really everything about life. The only thing bringing me down now is having to hide. Thanks in advance reddit, I know a group of intelligent, kind, and understanding people like you can do wonders.

tl;dr- I need help informing my parents about the benefits and truths of marijuana, so please post anything related to the topic. Also, posts from any tokers who hold a successful career would help (my parents are very convinced that a pot smoker is automatically a dead beat).

EDIT- I told my dad today and this is how it went.. I sat him down and showed him my post and some studies and what not, and he seemed pretty mad. He was telling me all these he learned while my brother was in rehab for weed (I know) like how some weed is sprayed with meth and how soon I'll want to try things like crack. He told me that smoking weed was blah blah blah insert every myth you've ever heard. He said he'd rather me not have told him and that this is the last time he wanted to hear about it. But I eventually talked him into calming down. I assured him that many of the things he knows about weed is false, and, after an hour or so, although he isn't thrilled with my smoking, he thanked me for telling him and his only request was that I don't smoke and drive. He said everyone smokes and began telling me of how him and his buddies would smoke once in a while and how him and my aunt and other family members used to do it a long time ago. I don't know how his mood took such a dramatic turn, but now he seems to mostly okay with it. I feel a lot better about not having to hide it from him anymore, but he still requested that we keep this from my mom unless it comes to her finding out on her own. Thanks for the help everyone, you've helped make my life a little less stressful.