[PowderMonkey]

"Even if he was stoned out of his mind from smoking the best weed ever grown, he still wouldn’t have been in an aggressive state because weed is a downer and not an upper."

Ursula doesn't get around much. Weed isn't a downer. I believe weed is classed as an hallucinogen. I've crossed paths with soldiers and insurgents throughout Africa and Central America who, while high on weed, got off on wiping out entire villages, and hacking off people's limbs with machetes. Nothing more scary than being stopped at an African military checkpoint by a leering, red-eyed Congolese with an RPG, and joint between his teeth.

[Tax-chick]

I believe weed is classed as an hallucinogen.

Correct. And my goodness, you've had an interesting life!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Assassin comes from (Arabic: حشاشين Ḥashshāshīn, also Hashishin, Hassassin, or Hashashiyyin)

[ichabod1]

I don’t think that’s marijuana. I think that’s a drug called Khat. I don’t think mj automatically makes you a peacenik though either.

[CrazyIvan]

Doesn't the word hashish come from the same root as assassin?

[JerseyDvl]

Marijuana cannot be classified as a depressant because it increases the heart rate blood pressure and cardio pulmonary system.
I went to saint johns university in the ninety’s and they actually had a class called “drug use in society” as a part of the criminal justice program.
It was in this class that the professor explained that because of these unique characteristics marijuana has its own classification as a drug.

Now is that education money well spent or what! Heck, at least I remember at half a lifetime later .

[Carriage Hill]

I’ll take your work for that one... sir.

[Yardstick]

Exactly. Those Janjaweed militias in Africa are known to smoke MJ before doing some very unpeaceful things.