Smoking Pot Lowers IQ

[Timbuktu]

You know, people who say "those scientists they didtnt know what they was doing man listen to me lower IQ is correlated with with pot smoking cause most pot smokers they do other stuff that makes you dumb too"...

If you read the thing says, you'd see that the people who made the study also said that this is a possible cause that couldnt be excluded by them, but it doesnt change the fact that there is still a clear correlation between pot smoking in teen years and having lower (lower... not low) IQ as an adult than those who didnt.

Also, notice the difference between "it lowers" the IQ, and "it gives you low IQ". The second could make you go from superdumb to just standard dumb. The first can make you go from dumb to dumber, from smart to dumb, or from supersmart to a little less supersmart but no one will know the difference cause they're still dumber than you so they'll just thing your supersmart cause you smoke.

If weed made lowered people's IQ we'd not have many of the technologies we have today. Most of your brilliant people are 'pot smokers.'

Weed is illegal in the US merely because it would be hard for the government to tax its sale and thus profit from it being legal like they do tobacco and booze (both of which cause more deaths than weed).

Oh and no, I don't smoke it

"Most brilliant people are pot smokers"

Really?

By "brilliant" do you mean Mozart, Beethoven, Einstein, Darwin, Martin Luther King, Watt, Keppler, Newton?

Or do you mean Cheech, Chong, and Jimi Hendrix?

Don't get me wrong, I think the last three are brilliant too, but in different ways.

I'd maybe agree that someone's somewhat weed-altered perseption makes them do things that are brilliantly funny because actually they're brilliantly stupid, and that it may help you do brilliantly "different" and thereore brilliantly "interesting" music, but I would not agree that smoking pot will help you invent the steem engine and formulate the theory of gravity.

My personal opinion being based on my own experience with pot, and having talked about it with people who smoked a lot more than me, I came to the conlclusion that smoking pot makes you think that a lot of things that you are thinking/experiencing while you are high are unbelievably clever and brilliant.

But the sad reality is that's not because you are really temporarily more clever and brilliant, but because it affects your brain in a way that makes you believe something very simple, which you think is true, is unbelievably clever simply because you happen to think its true at that moment.

In my opinion that's kinda where the whole stoner propaganda that weed makes you cool and brilliant comes from.

Sadly, believing that the next best random thing that came to your mind while you were smoking pot it totally genius doesn't exactly help you with training your deduction and reasoning skills.

Fortunately, I never really got reliant on pot to make me feel clever about myself, so I never got addicted to it, in contrast to some of my less fortunate friends.

What does it for me is constantly seeing that no matter how much people thought that what I was saying was totally outlandish and ridiculous, it always turns out that I was right in the end.