Franck, you keep insisting that pot, like any other drug, is bad for you. Several times you mention it causes brain damage. I surmise you have no evidence to back this claim up. You're more or less going by what you heard or what you think you know.
Could you please cite a source, any source for this? Now I don't mean more anecdotal evidence like you know some pot heads, or "everybody knows it causes brain damage.".
I'll start so you can see what I mean. Here's a Doctor, a well respected one, that ran a study and feels that THC does NOT cause permanent brain damage.
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The use of cannabis does not cause permanent brain damage, researchers from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), who reviewed the available data on the issue, said on 27 June. "The findings were kind of a surprise. One might have expected to see more impairment of higher mental function," said Dr. Igor Grant, a UCSD professor of psychiatry and the study's lead author. Other drugs, including alcohol, can cause brain damage.
His team analyzed data from 15 previously published, controlled studies involving 704 long-term cannabis users and 484 nonusers into the impact of long-term, recreational cannabis use on the neurocognitive ability of adults. The results, published in the July issue of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, show that marijuana has only a marginally harmful long- term effect on learning and memory. No effect at all was seen on other functions, including reaction time, attention, language, reasoning ability, and perceptual and motor skills.
Researchers said the problems observed in learning and forgetting suggest that long-term marijuana use results in selective memory defects, but said the impact was of a very small magnitude. Earlier reviews had come to similar results.
(Source: Reuters of 27 June 2003, dpa of 29 June 2003)
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