Smoking Pot Lowers IQ

[Champ]

Finnegan, can't agree more. Controlled longitudinal experiments are practically impossible because we're not allowed to put people in vacuum sealed boxes. At the same time, removing them from a normal life would have a huge impact on their IQ and their sanity, for that matter - so keeping them in their normal routine and then seeing that frequent marijuana usage is part of that is important. Still though, I can completely appreciate where you're coming from, and yes, sadly because of the nature of this topic people often refuse to be swayed or often even consider the opposing argument. While you can no doubt find some studies to oppose what I stated in my first post, the idea I was pointing at is that multitudes of studies in favour of those statements exist.

Believe you me, I'm hugely in favour of medically prescribed marijuana. It does some awesome stuff in the right biological circumstances. I'm just against over the top recreational usage, or what I'm tempted to term abuse.

I'd be very much curious to see that automobile exhaust study. Very, very curious. You can keep your aunt's left leg though. And her right one. Whatever. But it'd be interesting to see if there is a statistically significant decrease :3

Marburg, hey, no worries. Bubble burst away, if no-one challenged ideas we'd still be in the dark ages. I do take a little offense about you saying I obviously have no real clue about anything, and then criticising me for failing to show evidence after you didn't yourself. It's presumptuous to say the least. Introspection I might add, is little use in trying to argue with me on this matter. I was going to try to keep empirical studies out of this because they do get a bit tedious :lol:

I also didn't pull my facts from any ass, but from papers. That I've read. Papers by scientists.
I agree the common propoganda used by either extreme of the debate is often hugely false and stupid, though. I too, reference Fox news here. However, keep in mind that certain things are wives' tales, and certain things have repeated reliable experimental evidence. I'm not blind, for example :crazy:

Finally, I'll also (also also also also) note that I'm happy for people to use marijuana recreationally even if it's illegal, so long as it has no impact on me, in any direct or significant indirect sense, regardless of what I believe the effects to be, on the cynical but valid perspective that the world is over-populated as it is.

So, I'll go hunt down some of those papers if you like. Give me a few days or a week or something; I'm a busy guy, but I'll see what I can find. And hey, if I fail I'll even consider changing my stance.

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