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Switchblade:
with your powers combined, you are Captain 1950s!

Patrick:
I'd prefer Captain 1880s but I will take what I can get.

öde:
If I am tipsy I find myself more sociable and I have a little buzz (desireable!).
If I'm drunk I slur my speech, think slower, and have bad fine motor skills (undesireable!).
If I'm very drunk I'll probably do things I'll regret, maybe hurt people or damage things, and have worse gross motor skills and lack the ability to communicate. I'll also have a hangover the next day (very undesireable!).

If I'm a little high I'll be happy and calm (desireable!).
If I'm stoned I'll be all 'it's an awesome day and you are awesome too,' hungry, and I'll probably be a bit slow (desireable!).
If I'm stoned off my tits I'll space out and go to sleep (not negative!).

I don't really drink any more (a couple of pints of nice beer or a few glasses of nice wine are nice on occasion though), and I've never gone out of my way to get weed except when I wanted to find out what all the fuss was about.

So there's some more anecdotal evidence for you.

Cam:

--- Quote from: Switchblade on 14 Mar 2008, 02:48 ---My own experience and research tells me that Marijuana is Bad, Alcohol is Not Bad (it's not necessarily Good, but few things are).  Clearly you have arrived at a different conclusion, and I suspect that there's little I can do to change your mind.

--- End quote ---

The bulk of medical research disagrees with you sir.  Give onewheeledwizard's post a read or go search through some journals.

tania:
if we're going by anecdotal evidence now, i'll also add that literally every single one of my friends smoke pot and they are all smarter and funnier and better than me at just about everything, including school. both my sisters smoke pot too and they are incredibly intelligent successful people. i only ever met a couple of people who smoked so much that they let themselves get addicted (addicted in the sense that joe explained) and it started to interfere with their daily functioning.

this is one of those instances where the assumption is that correlation equals causation. lots of people who are lazy and probably not too smart smoke pot but that doesn't necessarily mean pot is responsible for them being lazy and unintelligent. it could just as feasibly go in the other direction - that people who are already lazy and maybe kind of dumb start smoking pot because it's easier to incorporate into their lifestyles. as demonstrated, lots of very intelligent people smoke pot too so there isn't really a lot of evidence backing up the conclusion that pot makes you stupid.

i realize this can also be applied to my argument about alcohol, that maybe people who are already sort of aggressive and violent are drawn to alcohol and not vice versa, but i still think this is a valid argument because i've yet to see any convincing evidence that pot causes harm to other people aside from those smoking it (and even that's debatable) in any way.

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