This confirms my lifelong experience Kama which is that most people who use marijuana start out as dumbasses. Note that I said most. Those who qualified under my experience stayed dumbasses.
So the suspicions of "many" are validated.
However, the twin that smoked marijuana always had his shoes on the wrong feet.
This kind of observational study answers very little.
Is the family behavior a result of, or cause for, the drug use?
Can a decrease of IQ—which implies a physical disruption of brain processes—really result from bad family environment, or is it a result of the drug use?
The problem is that these factors act in an additive or synergistic fashion and feed back on each other. This is why good studies are designed to control for various factors, which allows researchers to examine only the experimental question. Without proper controls, there are too many confounders to make any kind of conclusion about the study results.
This sounds like a flawed study. Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
...what it really means to say is that weed users are losers from the start...
kids that are losers turn to weed...
Maybe it’s just that the people who smoke it all the time have really low IQ’s to begin with.
All I know is that people who smoke a lot of marijuana tend to be really stupid.
I am not sure how much the extended use of marijuana lowers someone’s IQ... but most of the people I know who have been heavy pot users are idiots. Most of them do not get to be President, but when one of them does... it is a complete disaster.
Self-inflicted IQ destruction is absolutely unacceptable, outside of culturally permitted means such as television, alcohol, pills, and processed food nastiness.
My (limited) observations suggest not a loss of IQ, but a loss of will to use that talent.
So, getting your kids to smoke dope is the new conservative point of view on drugs?
Just make it legal and stop this nonsense.
Just shoot druggies and put us all out of their misery.
Paging the ghost of Carl Sagan