Who are you trying to fool, me or yourself? If you have spent all that time studying the effects of marijuana you must know it is a psychotropic drug affecting the central nervous system so as to produce the same inability, for instance, to operate heavy machinery as when drunk. I did specify judgement as opposed to the physical reactions and mental awareness which mainly make it harder to drive, for instance, but it impares judgement too. You cannot possibly not know that.
“It doesn’t ‘impair’ your judgement, but it does ‘alter’ it.”
Is that like how the handicapped or whatever you want to call them are “differently abled”? You don’t want to cast aspersions on marijuana smokers because though it diminishes their capacities in some ways, it also helps them write better beat poetry? I realize idiot savants are savants as well as idiots, but that doesn’t mean the idiot part isn’t a bad thing.
“the improbably vast gulf of difference between the promised and much-ballyhooed ‘negative long term effects’ of all of these drugs...and their actually negligible lasting clinical legacies”
Di you accidentally trip into one of your other ongoing arguments? What does this gave to do with what we’re talking about? I never said anything about longterm harm. I was talking about harm done while high.
“for people who can’t handle drugs”
Ah, but if there’s something to handle then presumably there’s some effect that is bad or could lead to bad consequences. Even if you do handle it, it was there. Otherwise there would have been nothing to handle. I don’t presume it is any more of a challenge than legal products like booze. In fact it is less harmful. Just saying the harm is there.
You may go back to beating up your straw man.
Exactly and precisely the opposite of the truth.
Alchohol is a CNS (Central Nervous System) depressant. It directly impairs neuromuscular activity and, in sufficient dosage, can completely destroy one's most basic motor-control functions.
Marijuana is not a CNS depressant, it is a psychedelic which can actually stimulate alertness, motor-control functions and observational acuity. Please, think before you type. Stick to the facts, and check the hormones at the door.
Emotional hyperventilation has no place in a serious discussion, despite that it may look rather good on you...
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