The study involved 54 marijuana users and 18 control subjects. The marijuana users volunteered to take part in a month-long inpatient program. (snip)
I appreciate you having presented this study. I've been studying cannabis for about 33 years and there have been few weeks that experiments were not performed. What I have found is that I work with some relatively complicated software driven machinery and with hundreds of other people and I do this with complete competence. I also know dozens of other persons who have used cannabis for that long and almost everyone of them are doing great mentally. The first guy I ever smoked marijuana with is a self made millionaire and a well respected citizen. If there were any great amount of real problems with cannabis use - I think it would be showing up in a notable way.
"The latest treatment data indicate that, in 2000, marijuana was the primary drug of abuse in about 15 percent (236,638) of all admissions to treatment facilities in the United States. Marijuana admissions were primarily male (76 percent), White (57 percent), and young (46 percent under 20 years old). Those in treatment for primary marijuana use had begun use at an early age; 56 percent had used it by age 14 and 92 percent had used it by 18..."