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Not every counterargument or counterevidence to your worldview is an appeal to taste, authority, tradition or religion. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2014/10/07/what-20-years-of-research-has-taught-us-about-the-chronic-effects-of-marijuana/?sh=17c0795017be https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2014/10/07/what-20... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_cannabis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_cannabis That said, outcomes may vary by individual, daily quantity, and whatever strain was most commonly smoked, and frankly, if it had been decriminalized and taxed instead of demonized from the get-go, research would have been much further along by now (can't exactly easily study an illegal substance).