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To: Hemingway's Ghost
As one of the few FReepers willing to admit he smokes grass, with a long history of doing so, when it comes to this subject, I do have expert standing. Sorry.

You being a user of this "ILLEGAL" drug does not make you an expert on the smoking habits of all marijuana users, sorry. I'm now handing your hat to you, sir. My being a professional psychologist working in the field of mental health and having worked with and around those who use illegal drugs, including marijuana, for the past 11 years probably gives me a little bit of validity on this subject, thanks.

167 posted on 07/11/2007 12:20:30 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier fighting the terrorists in the Triangle of Death)
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To: SoldierDad
You being a user of this "ILLEGAL" drug does not make you an expert on the smoking habits of all marijuana users, sorry.

Of course it doesn't, but it makes me an expert on the smoking habits of most of them, excepting the edge cases, which, by definition, are extremely atypical. I've seen both ends of the spectrum, from the chronic to the casual.

I'm now handing your hat to you, sir. My being a professional psychologist working in the field of mental health and having worked with and around those who use illegal drugs, including marijuana, for the past 11 years probably gives me a little bit of validity on this subject, thanks.

Allow me to hand you your hat back, my friend. In another life, I was married to a woman whose entire family was in the field in which you labor. Were I to publish what I thought of you and your profession, based on direct, first-hand observation and experienced, I would risk getting banned from this forum. Nothing personal, of course, but by definition you are working with atypical people, so what you see is going to be skewed, decidedly, from the norm.

170 posted on 07/11/2007 12:31:47 PM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: SoldierDad
My being a professional psychologist working in the field of mental health and having worked with and around those who use illegal drugs, including marijuana, for the past 11 years probably gives me a little bit of validity on this subject, thanks.

Frankly I don't know what could cut your credibility more. I have seen the results of your professions handiwork a few times over and it ain't pretty.

193 posted on 07/12/2007 5:23:47 PM PDT by TigersEye (My heart is broken but my conscience knows its cause.)
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