what a bunch of hooey. Propaganda scare tactics. The people I know in their 80’s and 90’s who have used it since young are still highly intelligent, responsible, successful, caring people. The use of it does not reduce one to a drooling idiot.
Many others have spent time in jail for DUIs, domestic violence related to drinking too much, public drunk and disorderly charges, etc.
And yet find me someone who overdosed on smoking pot and I will show you someone who has simply fallen asleep on the living room couch.
When I was in the Air Force, most of the physicians and all of the dentists I worked with at the base hospital, smoked pot. It's use is not limited to slacker stoners and pot head stereotypes the media portrays it as.
Pot is not a debilitating drug like alcohol can be. It's not addictive. It's habitual. No withdrawal symptoms because you don't get "hooked". I think it is much safer and less damaging than drinking alcohol is. The associated health problems from alcohol are not there with pot.
I'm not recommending or encouraging people smoke pot. Nor am I saying that pot doesn't have "issues" or that some people will have problems, not matter what they imbibe in.
But I agree with your notion, Pilated, that this "Pot is a dangerous 'recreation'" is a "bunch of hooey".