Let's Not Kid Ourselves About Marijuana

Wall Street Journal ^ | January 15. 2014 | MITCHELL S. ROSENTHAL

[MeshugeMikey]

Let's Not Kid Ourselves About Marijuana Adolescents are vulnerable—and not just to pot. That's how they are programmed. They make rash and risky choices because their brains aren't fully developed. The part of the brain that censors dumb or dangerous behavior is last to come on line (generally not before the mid-20s). Meanwhile, the brain's pleasure-seeking structures are up and running strong by puberty.

When you link adolescent pleasure-seeking and risk-taking to marijuana's impairment of perception and judgment, it isn't surprising that a 2004 study of seriously injured drivers in Maryland found half the teens tested positive for pot.

[TigersEye]

Uh, no, you’re the one who refuses to answer anything with objective evidence or substantive logic. We’ve been right on topic all along.

[TigersEye]

Yes, I painted you in a corner with it.

ROTFLMAO

[TigersEye]

Alcohol is a drug so it is not another subject. Dishonest sophistry again.

[TigersEye]

That statement was a question in hypothetical.

I'm a FReeper. I don't buy BS.

[TigersEye]

You already admitted you had no problem with pilots on it.

That is not true. You asked me if I would fly with a pilot stoned on pot and I said yes. I also said it was not acceptable to me for pilots to fly stoned. More dishonesty, F15Eagle!?! The farther into this we go the worse you get. WTH?

[TigersEye]

So now tell me, why do you need your pot?

I never said that I did.

[TigersEye]

Wow! Major point there!!! /s lol

[deltanine]

“Gosh, are you TigerEye? Because you repeatedly cannot distinguish between a comment to him and to you.”

You did continue asking me about stoned pilots after I engaged you. Re-read the thread.

You can continue to play these word games and parse your previous words all you want, but you aren’t fooling anyone. You have made some very poor points so it has been fun to debate you.

But I still respect your opinion.

[TigersEye]

I’m not trying to justify anything. Not one post of mine leans that way. I have nothing to justify to you or anyone else. I stated some facts and you respond with straw men and sophistry.

[TigersEye]

So now tell me, why do you need your pot?

~~~I never said that I did.~~~

Then why did you obtain it, for decades?

My reply has nothing to do with your question so how can I respond to it? You are twisting ever further down a rabbit hole of sophistic arguments to the point now that they are non-sequitur.