[Ol' Dan Tucker]

And what makes me the expert? Apart from the experience I have had with numerous and sundry drug addicts and specifically pot-heads, I have been arguing about and researching this topic for the last seven years with a psychotic pot-head loon on another website.

Are you a certificated drug counselor? As you probably know, anecdotal evidence is not scientific evidence. Correlation is not the same as causation. Just because the losers you encountered used drugs doesn't mean that all drug users are losers. For example, James Garner (the actor) smoked marijuana for almost his entire life, yet no one would call him a loser.

Have you publish the findings of your 'research' in any scientific journals for peer review?

But, you still haven't answered my question. Have you smoked marijuana?

[DiogenesLamp]

As you probably know, anecdotal evidence is not scientific evidence.

So everyone tells me when my own personal experience goes against whatever it is they wish to believe.

It's like a variation of "Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes? "

For example, James Garner (the actor) smoked marijuana for almost his entire life, yet no one would call him a loser.

Not everyone has the opportunity to play "make believe" for a living. Most other people have to do real work.