[Ueriah]

“Sounds like the perfect drug to turn otherwise normal and intelligent people into liberals.”

You will find amongst cannabis users both the young and the old, the rich and the poor, the talented and intelligent as well as the ignorant unwashed masses.

Likewise, you will find people of all sides of the politicial spectrum who smoke pot. I think that most conservatives tend to be quieter about their pot use than liberals are, as a general rule.

I find it interesting that you can go to the store and buy a pack of cigarettes once you are 18, yet it has been proven beyond any reasonable measure that cigarettes have a _provable_ correlation to cancer, but you can’t buy cannabis, which does not have a proven correlation.

There is a difference between research suggesting something, and research proving something.

[TexasGator]

“I find it interesting that you can go to the store and buy a pack of cigarettes once you are 18, yet it has been proven beyond any reasonable measure that cigarettes have a _provable_ correlation to cancer, but you can’t buy cannabis, which does not have a proven correlation.”

Cannibis cures cancer.

[Magic Fingers]

“You will find amongst cannabis users both the young and the old, the rich and the poor, the talented and intelligent as well as the ignorant unwashed masses.”

Yes - just like the use of alcohol among people of all ages, income levels, intellect, etc.

[Vigilanteman]

Maybe. But every habitual pot smoker I've ever known (and I'm not talking about the occasional user to relieve glaucoma or whatever) had (a)delusions of grandeur which superior intelligence or creativity, (b)a tendency to punctuate their speech with a lot of filler material (ahhh, and, umm . . ., etc.) and (c)poor short-term memory.

Yeah, I've known people who were easier to deal with when they were stoned. I've also known people who were easier to deal with when they were drunk.

Neither drug is so much of a personality changer as a personality enhancer.