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To: Dan B. who wrote (5024)	11/30/2006 12:04:53 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Damn silent observers! Where are they? Hiding like the cowards they are. As for alcohol, I'm sure you are well aware of the long standing well known problems Sure, but that's a poor argument for weed. 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". I noticed this: Research Needed to Assess ... ..... use ... by young people is linked to psychosocial harm including psychsocial health problems, the use of other illicit drugs, reduced educational attainment, ... That doesn't sound like a clean bill of health to me. Hopefully this will confirm for you that the stereotypical notions ... Actually it tended to confirm my stereotypical notions. 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? I notice you presented the link as giving a clean bill of health to use of weed and it doesn't. It cited studies saying it was very harmful for young people and said more research was needed.