@snood,
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In other words, just how the **** can you say with conviction that pot doesn't harm anyone?
I haven't seen convincing evidence that it does, either from an anecdotal level or a research level. I think there are people who have problems with it, but no more so than ciggies or alcohol, other drugs which are considered socially acceptable.
However, there are many other drugs that I have seen wreck people's lives, so I have a different opinion of them. Steroids are one of those drugs, and they carry very negative connotations in my mind specifically because of the negative effects I saw they had in the lives of people I knew when I was younger. I rate them right up there with meth and heroin and coke, in terms of how it can take a person and really change them.
Quote:I find that statement as another example of your tendency of late to make broad unqualified statements as if they are empirical fact.
I think it's always appropriate to ask someone if what they are saying is intended to be their opinion, or a categorical fact. I'm not the world's leading expert on Marijuana or studies relating to the effects of using it. But I have enough experience with it to have an opinion about it.
Cycloptichorn