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Originally Posted by Frame57
Really? name one
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Catherine Craven, late wife of a good friend of mine. Pathologist, specialized in Pediatrics. Leading expert in the field of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Wrote several papers on the subject. Testified in front of Congress. Alcohol problems nearly wrecked her career. Pot use didn't. She stopped smoking while in med school, but she still did have a history of prior use, so by your lights her brain should be fried.
http://en.scientificcommons.org/20208328
http://hyper.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/32/4/683
And then there's me. I tried a whole lot of different drugs right after I got out back in 1970. I do consider myself lazy, but I was accused of that long before I knew what a joint was, and I don't like to blame my failures or lack of responsibility on anything other than my own innate abhorrence of work. And I don't think anybody who knows me is going to argue that I'm stupid, or that I don't still possess the best memory for facts and details of anyone they know. In fact I'm cursed with explicit memories of a great many stupid things I did long before I was a teenager.
Yes, it can be argued that teens who smoke weed can do damage to their still-forming brain tissue. But that's also true of smoking tobacco and especially alcohol use. And it is illegal to give those things to teens. No reason other drugs can't fall into the same category.