OK, chilren, let’s do some math. Pothead hippies take over the arts, media, academia and two generations later, conservatives find their butts getting kicked, scratching their heads and wondering if they really are obsolete. Two pothead phone phrackers invent the personal computer and here we are typing messages on Free Republic. Am I getting through to anyone here? So where do you think we should put the equal sign?
SMARTER - FASTER
And if you think Pot did all that then you aren't knowledgeable enough or intelligent enough to bother arguing with. I don't think you believe that, but you felt the need to throw that out there as a cheap shot.
I could probably write a 20 page essay on what social changes occurred to create the liberal dominance of the media and academia. The prime factor is money, not pot. Money Liberalizes. After World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation on Earth. That and other factors fueled the rise of Liberalism after the war. (And not the least of which was the development of sound and image recording systems which allowed heretofore lowly regarded Libertine "Actors" to have far more power and influence.)
Two pothead phone phrackers invent the personal computer and here we are typing messages on Free Republic.
I didn't see Steve Jobs doing a hell of a lot of "inventing" other than new marketing schemes. His talent was sales, not development. I think it was Wozniak that did the lion's share of the "inventin."
Now I just did a search for Steve Wozniak and "Pot" and also "Marijuana" and pretty much every return I looked at said Jobs smoked pot and LSD, but I never did find anything saying the Woz did. Maybe he did and I just haven't found it yet, but it certainly doesn't seem to be a prominent aspect of his life.
I will also point out that Woz is still alive, and Jobs is dead. Apparently killed by his nutty idea of being a "fruitarian."