Daff, the studies have shown, that cannabis doesent do any permanent damage and the short-term memory loss comes with heavy usage, when the metabolites of cannabinoids dont get enough time to get out of the system and eventually they _impair_ some of your brain functions (they store themselfs in fatcells and in some parts of brain) untill you stop smoking and let the metabolites to burn (takes month or two).
Most of the "known" problems comes when the person is high all the time, as you cant study or learn efficently if you are high. This can be strongly linked to the "drop-outs" of schools, who are chronic potsmokers.
There are many cases, when the invidual has had multiple problems in his life and sometimes smoked pot. Now you can imagine the gossips when he drops out of school: "Thats what the pot does yep" and such types of BS.
The pot doesent harm you if you use it properly (which is very very easy) so you cant blame it for your problems.
Pot doesent come even close to the physical harms made by alcohol. Everybody knows, that the morning after tells you just how bad the dinking is doing to your body.
Occasional drinking wont kill you as you dont live long enough to suffer the PERMANENT damage done by it. There aint no safe alcohol drinks, but there surely is safe joints if we think about the chronic damages. The short term impairments dont mean nothing, since they are all well below the same made by alcohol.
Pot smoke isnt good for your lungs, but there are other ways to use it, like eating, so if youre worried about your lungs, just make some Space-Cookies..
For Miko: The wealthiness of person isnt by any ways linked to his/hers integellience. People can be very very rich and still be stupid as a monkey (go Bush, go Gore!). It goes just as well otherwise; You being poor doesent mean, that you arent integellient. You can be good in everything, but still not get any situations in your lifetime, that would make you rich using your skills.
So, if you see a poor person walking past of you, you just cant know, that he could count 43252x155325 faster than you with your calculator or he can see all the patterns of the shapes in IQ tests instantously. He just doesent know it, or just doesent know anyplace, that he could use his skills.
The wealty=intelligence is always pointed out by a wealthy persons, as they usually think, that they must be something special when they have had such a good money making opportunities in their life. Most of todays multimillionares have made their money by an accident, like investing 10 years ago in Nokia just for the phuck of it.
Oh and our society supports only few types of skills. The arts/philosophy/musical types of persons get often nothing, no matter how good they are in their things. IQ test is as good as predicting the weather from the frogs. Intelligence is something so widely featured, that it just cant be measured by any single tests.
