Posted on 11/11/2014 8:22:52 AM PST by elhombrelibre
Whoa - getting loaded on anything three times a day is probably going to affect you. Can’t say I ever did that, but I smoked it for years and can’t say I’ve ever noticed any long-lasting side effects. Other than the purple spiders.
Amen, brother Laz! If it weren’t for God, AA, and my wife I would be laying dead drunk in an irrigation ditch somewhere.
I did an experiment once where I took an IQ test, then drank three glasses of Merlot and took a very similar IQ test again.
My IQ results dropped by 7.4% My mathematical skills were most affected. Verbal skills were hardly affected at all (at least on the test).
Probably because they're often used by drug warrior types to justify all the arresting, prosecuting, and jailing that goes along with the so-called War on Drugs, which puts marijuana in the same category as heroin or cocaine.
> Pot heads swear this isn’t true.
They should be in here any moment now talking about how it solved their medical problems (addiction) and inspired new creativity...: )
I hope all that grass I smoked back in the ‘60s hasn’t given me drain bramage.
The US government can’t hire the best programmers and hackers because they all do pot. Just last spring there was an appeal by the FBI to drop the rule for hiring pot-heads because this rule eliminated the smartest people.
I watched it on CSPAN.
Here’s one small article on the topic. http://wrrv.com/the-fbi-cant-find-hackers-who-arent-stoners/
Take a good gander at what booze can do.
So the best ones according to you are the drug users?
Just as in the military they may have a problem always filling their jobs with the numbers and standards that they desire, but what makes you think that they don’t already have the best, and that the ones rejected are part of the lower levels?
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy-PING.
Regards,
Are you sure that is their sole toke?
my wife smokes this stuff every damn night.. this is a gal who was an amazingly driven songwriter, she had a record deal, the whole nine yards..
she is less driven, does very little writing now, and is never able to finish a darn song.
as for me, I don’t smoke the stuff, and I write music every night.. I am still extremely driven to do this, even at this age of 62... I can’t sell the stuff, but what the heck.. it’s either building songs, or building things out of wood in my garage. The point is, I want to do something that I find fun and fulfilling in my spare time. And the fun comes from the accomplishment... the building of something.
I have seen first-hand with other members of my family back in Detroit and my wife, how that drug robs you of motivation... that old “I think I’ll just chill tonight” syndrome.. I have discussed this with her many times, to no avail. The rest of our life is just fine and she works quite hard during the day at her job. It’s just a drag that someone with so much talent, has no motivation and spends nights on her iPad.
-— sigh -— different strokes I guess.
What is sad is that he had the brains and the grades and the people skills to become a physician if he wanted.
Instead, he skipped college and has worked menial jobs all his life - just enough to keep his pot in check.
He never married, has no kids, but he does have a thriving pot business.
Not the ones I’ve known. I’ve seen highly social people start to use pot and become quite withdrawn. I’m also surprised how many people treat pot as if it couldn’t possibly have some side effects for some people that are not beneficial.
(Sorry. It was CNN, not CSPAN.)
*I* did not say that. FBI said that.
And they aren’t finding people to fill the slots at the current standards. They are still trying to recruit. Always trying to recruit. The talent is out there, but most of them are not qualified because they smoke pot.
I’m only point out that, if regular pot use is really as terrible for brains as this study suggests, why is it that pot-users have the highest IQs? The people with the highest IQs are more likely to be drug users.
(I’m not saying that drugs makes people smart or that drugs do not impair cognitive ability. But the meme that pot use=stupid just isn’t true.)
So, here we have a study that says that pot use permanently hurts brains. And here’s another study that says the exact opposite.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/10.11/marijuana.html
(and no. I don’t do pot. Never have. But I have a problem with over-hyped BS gov’t propaganda. I despise the anti-drug hype just as much as I hate the Global Warming alarmist BS.)
Have you noticed that those who are pro-pot, however, are like Obama voters. They’re so loyal to pot that they cannot possibly believe it could be in any way harmful.
It should have been, included before and after, but the separate clauses do not necessarily demand the America tense. If it was formal writing, rather than a simple post, the clause would have had a separate subject and more specific verbs.
Your reasoning is indeed flawed. By the way, my IQ is higher than 98% of the population, in case you are wondering.
Pot seems to decrease the rational thinking abilities, so it only makes sense that the tokers fail to understand the dangers.
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