Listen, if facts aren't enough to change someone's mind, then they are to be distrusted and dismissed; facts are exactly that. Everyone's got an opinion, but facts don't change. If they are guiding their life strictly by emotion or opinion, they are not someone I care to share much time with.

That's not what I wrote, but thanks for twisting it to suit your agenda.

1-3 drinks when they drink. 1-3 times a month.

Eh, legalizing weed would make things a lot easier.
but at the same time, legalizing weed isn't the best choice.
you should look into this.

if the problem with weed is that its illegal well i say its time we legalized it we could sure use the money especally considering how fast our alcohol drinking government is pissing it down the nearest urinal ..if people are going to smoke it no matter what, wouldnt be best if we were the ones seeing the profit...ENUFF SAID

Well, obviously the government created the illegal drug trade. MJ didn't used to be illegal so the trade of it wouldn't be illegal either, as soon as the government passed a law prohibiting it that trade would now be illegal...thus creating the illegal drug trade.

I used to smoke a lot of pot, I quit last year. I'm not really against it but I just didn't want to keep spending money on it. I don't think that MJ makes you dumb or retards your brain to any large degree. I used to smoke daily in college and scored somewhere in the top 85th percentile on my MCATs. I've smoked daily for about 8-9 years and I still score about the same on IQ tests as I did before I smoked pot. I don't feel like I retain any less information or that I have a harder time grasping things than I used to.

I'm more opposed to the lack of studies on the medicinal effects that THC might have than the legality or illegality of it. Recent studies done by Harvards division of experimental medicine have shown that cannabinoids found in pot decreased lung tumors in mice by up to 50% and severely inhibited it's ability to metastisize. There have also been similar studies done showing that cannabinoids inhibit angiogenesis of tumors in glioblastoma which is one of the most aggresive forms of brain cancer. Angiogenesis is the formation of new blood vessels to feed cancerous cells, by inhibiting this you starve cancer cells. These studies have been peer reviewed and published.

Just because a lot of irresponsible idiots might smoke pot doesn't mean that pot made them idiots or irresponsible. I always did all my school work and waited till I was done with work before sparking up.

i have a seven yr old son and a pot smoker or a drunk would not be the type of male role model I would want my son exposed too.I don't give a **** what other people do with their lives but I do care when it has the potential to screw mine and my sons up.

Well hell boy, you're gonna be rich! Able to come to conclusions all on your own! Doctors, scientists, politicians; they pale in comparison to your skills of deduction!

Seriously, anyone can "reach their own conclusion" but without facts, which you can't possibly get without research, your "conclusions" are nothing more than speculation.

I like how you say. "you can smoke weed and still get a excellent job" Do you smoke weed and have a excellent job? Most people want to know a person is secure.It sounds like you upset because someone that is accomplished refuses to be with someone that is unaccomplished. You say that a smart person would know when a test is coming. Well sometimes people get hurt on the job and there is no time to clean up. As far as owning nice things and raising children they may possibly become a governor. Why not! It's all about choices. If you want to say hey I didn't sell out to the man. I smoke weed daily and my life is great. Then why does it matter. I'm not going to loose my freedom so someone can stay high.Example. I'm not willing to go to jail because someone left a seed or a roach in my car.I'm not going to lose my house because my partner bought or sold weed and gets busted.

Why do I prefer to not date a person who smokes weed?


I guess because of the related history for me. I grew up in the late 60's early 70's by the beach....pick a drug, they were around

My younger brother suffers with Marijuana induced schizophrenia, (yes he has a genetic weakness there in the first place, with a family history of mental illness....I don't, I'm adopted )...Directly related to the vast amounts of pot he smoked from age 14 through to now.

With the high levels of thc, and other chemicals used in making Hydro, there are plenty of permanent mind altering risks associated with pot smoking.

Also not to just single marijuana as the demon weed, there are plenty of other nasties around, like ICE, that can twist a mind permanently.

My kid's father was a huge pot smoker, and the mood swings that appeared when he had 'dry spells' were downright frightening.

In all fairness, I will not bring anyone into my world who have any addictions, I have kids, so no habitual drinking, even the daily beer after work, and the three after dinner, will I welcome in my home.

People can do what ever they like, I just prefer not to have it (alcohol or pot) in or around my home or my children.

I'm not merely telling you that "weed is bad". I haven't spent my entire life hearing that it's bad and based my decision on that. I have done extensive research on the subject so that when my children reach the age I should be concerned about their potential use I have already given them relevant data.

I am aware that there have been documented cases of improvements in various aspects of health. Yet, the totality of these cases pales in comparison to the number of documented cases of deteriorated health as a result of usage.

The point you just proved that you missed is that you have been doing research, which has been written with a particular judgement. Your research has been clouded by those judgements. Your judgement has been clouded by that clouded research.
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Like, for instance, the idea that marijuana has no adverse affect on you? Or the idea that the government created the illegal drug trade?

How exactly do you go about learning things on your own without having someone else's judgement to cloud it? Read books? Author's judgement. Read the newspaper? Author's judgement. Listen to the radio? Announcer's judgement.

And don't get me started on the companies and corporations that employ said authors or announcers.

Please, explain how you learn without sources of information that aren't "tainted" with judgement?

I don't know. But can you say without a shadow of a doubt that your usage did not create and/or contriute to the problem? That your continued usage is the reason for your continued misspelling?

And TV is the only source for information?

The perfect example of the poor and/or lack of judgement that natrually accompanies drug use; I can stop doing it long enough to get hired.As it clearly did not impair your spelling.Sorry, that's patently false. Their is significantly more evidence that disputes your position than arguments to support it.

Yes, but also look how much they are raked over the coals. Who remembers how much Clinton went through for "not inhaling". Shrub has a known alcohol and cocaine past. These things weigh on voters minds, although seemingly heavier when it's a Democrat than reTHUGlican.

The point is, yes people do it and succeed, yes some successful people used to do it, etc. But how many of them have you EVER heard defending their decision to ever have done or continue doing it?

Perhaps not. But life is about accepting that your choices are going to affect the rest of your life.

Marijuana users are significantly less likely to succeed to any noticable degree.

If you are content working jobs as were described, living with your parents or grandparents, never owning property, etc., more power to you.

But don't pretend that your choice to smoke "weed" shouldn't or won't affect your life in negative ways.

Personally, I think there is probably an argument to legalizing it to some extent. But it's not legal. As such, I would like to see all non-medical use prosecuted heavily.

Period.