Smoking Pot Lowers IQ

[TFinnegan]

Champ, I have to concur with most of what you're saying especially the bit about expounded assumptive results, but I think they're factoring out some pretty major datum in that study.
Like, what diets were these people eating?
I'll expound...

If I put rubbing alcohol in my car, it will run.
It will run all wonky, and not for very long, but it will run.
It's just not the correct fuel source.
The same will happen to your brain when you eat processed non-food foods.
Your brain will run all wonky, and not for very long.

Diet can be as big a factor to falling IQ as drugs.
So can carcinogens.

I'd bet you my aunt's left leg that I could do a study showing that breathing automobile exhaust while walking down the side of the road affects IQ as well, if not even equally.

No one lives in a vacuum sealed box.
To draw a line from cause to effect, circling around variables, is bad science.

Also for every study that shows this:

Cannabis and marijuana usage have been shown to:
Dramatically increase incidence of anxiety disorders
Dramatically increase incidence of cancer
Cause schizophrenia
Stunt brain development and other growth
Cause permanent damage to unborn foetuses

I can find one that refutes it.

The evidence is by NO MEANS overwhelming.
Unless you WANT to believe it, in which case no amount of facts is going to convince you (much like religion)


EDIT: Burg, I wasn't trying to insult you, in fact I tried to find the person I know that is LEAST likely to take umbrage to my poke.

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