[tacticalogic]

I don't think so. I have smoked almost my entire life and have smoked my fair share of dope when I was younger. I have never experienced any diminished mental capacity after smoking a cigarette where as I know for a fact I am not safe to drive a car while stoned. If I am stoned, figuring out the stereo remote control might be something of a chore.

"Mind altering" is not limited to diminished mental capacity. In the case of nicotine the most significant alteration is establishing a physical addiction. Wheather the temporary alteration of mental ability of THC is more dangerous than the rapid physical addiction of nicotine is a subjective determination.

[Prodigal Son]

Well, you can spin it anyway you like. But in the case of this argument with the surgeon I don't think any amount of spinning ever results in me choosing the stoned surgeon over one who has just smoked a cigarette.

When I used to smoke dope- we called it 'getting F--ked Up' for a reason ;-)

[Huck]

Wheather the temporary alteration of mental ability of THC is more dangerous than the rapid physical addiction of nicotine is a subjective determination.

But tacticlogic, when the question is the mental state of a surgeon about to perform surgery, it's not that subjective.