Yes pot makes people SMARTER and that is why the term “pot head” came about. To identify people sitting in clouds of smoke in their mother’s basement with stale pizza boxes all over the floor and, not having bathed for 3 days, online managing their revenue streams from patents and selling futures and lastly, managing their offshore accounts in the Caymans. Pot is always the hallmark of a real corporate competitor. /sarcaaaaasm!
In my college there was one instructor whom people would refer to by rolling their eyes and joking about his pot use. That’s the real image of pot - stoned and sitting around being stupid. But pothead’s lives matter! right! They are all Einsteins!
Everybody who uses pot is not a stereotypical "pot head" as you call them. That's naive.
Many people function just fine their whole lives while using pot as their recreation drug of choice. Same with alcohol drinkers.
But painting everyone with a brand brush of generalizations like you do, is not accurate.
Personally, I would rather be around someone who is stoned than someone who is drunk. The difference is dramatic.
And that image is false. You've been duped. Who's the sucker now?