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Weed kills motivation, hopes and dreams, and limits potential. This is true, but not universally for everyone. Some people truly do function better stoned, eve
by kjdsiheioahef 9y ago
Weed kills motivation, hopes and dreams, and limits potential. This is true, but not universally for everyone. Some people truly do function better stoned, even perpetually as many hackers apparently are.
Numerous studies suggest clearly that long-term marijuana use reduces IQ.
Perhaps in the future we'll have customized DNA-derived profiles that accurately tell whether someone is better doing no weed, lots of weed, some weed, and so on and so forth for all chemicals. We all have unique chemical makeups, after all.
Some background: My father was an extensively published pharmaceutical (toxicology, pharmacology, brain expert) academic researcher. Drugs are entirely about dosage. The logic applies here.
FBI policy may be antiquated but does exist for a good reason. Perhaps that reason needs refinement at a societal level, through technological progress.
I do expect this comment to get downvoted. HN'ed.
- Nomentatus 9y agoYou know your audience, well: they supplied the downvotes, but no contrary bibliography.
- sakuronto 9y agoWhat can be asserted without a bibliography can be dismissed without a bibliography.
- kjdsiheioahef 9y agohttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=marijuana+IQ+loss+studies https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=marijuana+IQ+loss+studi...
- zzz157 9y ago>Numerous studies suggest clearly that long-term marijuana use reduces IQ. https://www.leafly.com/news/health/marijuana-and-iq-studies https://www.leafly.com/news/health/marijuana-and-iq-studies
- drb91 9y agoThis is such a tired argument when alcohol is legal, far more toxic of a substance, far more addictive, and it actively kills people daily. People can and should make decisions for themselves about what they put in their bodies. It’s natural to balk at doing drugs. It’s harmful, however, to talk about weed without comparing it to harder substances, especially when it has been a prime reason for imprisoning people for decades. Even if weed is physiologically harmful at all, prohibition is socially a crippling disease.
- qume 9y agoI know a lot of computer science folk who could do with trading a few IQ points (in plentiful supply) for some of the other more positive side effects it provides.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoAnything that provides happiness can kill motivation, hopes, and dreams. Whether it's weed, alcohol, harder drugs, gambling, or even video games like DoTA and WoW. Obviously if someone is high at work, that's a problem. Same as someone being drunk, or playing games at work. But what we do in our own time is our own business.
- gehwartzen 9y agoWhy is it obvious that someone being high at work is a problem? We're not all airline pilots, neurosurgeons, and bomb techs.
- verylittlemeat 9y agoAnyone who goes after weed as being the "life killer" before even making a casual mention to alcohol can usually be safely dismissed as moralizing.