Gee no word of brain fungus with cannabis users let alone the dumming down factor,comes down to one thing ONLY it’s all about the buzz.Never saw a stoner with logic keep an eye open for the UFO’s.
Are those ailments worse that the SEVERE PERMANENT brain damage and cognitive impairment PROVEN to be caused by even moderate alcohol use?(1) There is not a single study that says long-term(even extreme) cannabis use will cause ANY brain damage. Except the well-debunked(2) 1982 study where poor monkeys were suffocated by smoke until brain dead.
Is "brain fungus" worse than alcohol poisoning that kills thousands every year? There is not a single case of cannabis ever causing harm to the user's body, much less death.
Alcohol has NO medical use beyond a (poor) disinfectant. ALL about the buzz, my FRiend. Marinol is 100% proof that cannabis has at least one proven medical use.
If the drug war was actually about saving people from themselves, alcohol would be illegal. Oops, almost forgot, they already tried that.
(1)Brain damage is a common and potentially severe consequence of long-term, heavy alcohol consumption. Even mild-to-moderate drinking can adversely affect cognitive functioning (i.e., mental activities that involve acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using information) (1) Evert, D.L., and Oscar-Berman, M. Alcohol-related cognitive impairments: An overview of how alcoholism may affect the workings of the brain. Alcohol Health Res World 19
(2)William Slikker, Jr. et al, "Chronic Marijuana Smoke Exposure in the Rhesus Monkey," Fundamental and Applied Toxicology 17: 321-32 (1991)