[mcbear]

I am certainly for choice in pot decisions. I think you can substitute alcohol for pot and neither the article nor the supporting study would change. The only difference is that alcohol is regulated and taxed.

That said, I will have to say that the very vast majority of folks that I know who actively smoke pot, from friends in the 60s-70s through many of my programmer friends now, I can see how it has taken its toll. There are a higher number of suicides due to depression. There are a number who just drop out. A couple of very smart ones have come to live on the street.

So in a very unscientific, yet very broad based sampling that cuts through a pretty wide socio-economic cross-section, I have seen what kind of damage long term pot use can do. I guess the telling result is that I can COUNT the folks that it HASN'T negatively affected, either their health or career.