[antiRepublicrat]

If there was a Nobel Prize for Sophistry, this gentleman's statement should certainly place him in consideration.

The statement is hyperbole, but it does reflect the fact that overall the greatest harmful consequence of a person using marijuana is getting arrested for it, and the consequences that follow from that.

[headsonpikes]

That was not what he was saying - he was quoted following this:Experts who phoned in to the Senate committee meetings last session tried to show that in some cases smoking marijuana could lead to violence.

I assume the unstated implication in the good psychologist's statement has something to do with amotivational syndrome, or some other attribute of pot that causes job loss.

Faulty metaphysics, essentially. ;^).