[Tublecane]

No one ever died of a marijuana overdose, but that’s not the only way to be harmful. It impares your judgement, which is why you can’t do the same sort of things you can’t do while drunk on it. It also damages the lungs in a manner similar to other kinds of smoking, although the overall effect is milder than cigarettes, for instance, because you don’t smoke as many of them.

[Gargantua]

It doesn't "impair" your judgement, but it does "alter" it. As someone who was, from 1965 until 1990, a walking, breathing, self-induced pharmaceutical experiment, I won't be lectured to about the "effects" of any drugs by someone who hasn't spent decades learning intimately the indications, contra-indications, sympathetic interdependencies and singularly remarkable active properties of them.

The decades since 1990 have been spent, among other things, evaluating the improbably vast gulf of difference between the promised and much-ballyhooed "negative long term effects" of all of these drugs (as presented by still more "experts" who never chopped a line or split a windowpane), and their actually negligible lasting clinical legacies.

The "reality" about drugs as sown by all the "experts" paid to create boogey-men to frighten the children is for people who can't handle drugs. It has no place in an adult discussion of the facts. Period.

Deal with it.

;^\