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To: Brumar89 who wrote (4997)	11/19/2006 2:51:02 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Damn silent observers! Where are they? As for alcohol, I'm sure you are well aware of the long standing well known problems it presents, both short and long term. Perhaps I don't need to recount the dreadful effects on the reflexes causing many highway deaths, death by bravado and fighting/abuse of others, death by destroyed liver, etc. As for Marijuana, well (marijuana having perhaps 1/100th or less the time delay effect on the reflexes as alcohol; a delay which has been on the bleeding edge of our ability to measure/confirm), studies show definite problems with it in children in particular, and yet for all the effort made, "important consequences" from it's use remain difficult to discern. Here ya go, from 2004: healthcentral.com "Dr Macleod comments: "Despite widespread concern, we have found no strong evidence that use of cannabis in itself has important consequences for psychological or social health. This finding is not equivalent to the conclusion that use of cannabis is harmless in psychosocial terms; problems with the available evidence render it equally unable to support this proposition. Better evidence is needed in relation to cannabis, which is widely used, and in relation to other drugs that, although less widely used, might have important effects". Hopefully this will confirm for you that the stereotypical notions you've repeated here, for instance that regular marijuana users likely commonly neglect their children, are simply not in evidence (aside from, as I've suggested, anecdotal stereotyped portrayals of behaviors actually associated realistically with drugs other than marijuana). It isn't a matter of one opinion vs another, really. If Marijuana were as debilitating as you've previously come to believe, we should think that I simply couldn't report from any source what I just have, wouldn't you agree? Dan B.