Smoking Pot Lowers IQ

[TFinnegan]

So what is it that's lacking in people's lives for them to try and seek it, whatever 'it' may be, by sinking into a red-eyed coma?

Comfort? A distraction? If your life requires those things to be generated externally, then you're already in a pretty bad state socially anyway.

See there ya go again, Joe, giving me something to disagree with.
:P
You just described the human condition.

Unless you're a sufi or a monk, it's very nearly impossible to achieve these things internally.
Thats why sex, drugs of one kind or another, fear/adrenal rush seeking, and any multitude of things meant to stimulate us externally can be found in every society, everywhere.

We have eyes, ears, nose, mouth, skin, all to experience external stimuli.
All of it.
We haven't developed an inner third eye (or pineal gland) yet, because humans are externally motivated creatures.

I get what you're saying, metaphorically, but scientifically, its incorrect.

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