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Well, in all fairness, have we all forgotten that the average drug indulger almost certainly has a predisposition to those habits by way perhaps of genetic carry-over by the practices of their biological parents present or past or perhaps even during pregnancy
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Where did you get that from? Total fabrication I’m afraid.

You should be aware that the vast, vast majority of cannabis users suffer no ill-effects at all from their cannabis use.

Of course you can overdo almost anything.

I’ve combined your four comments into one, please don’t post multiple comments.

To your first point – and if you’d taken the time to read around this site and it’s blog you would know that one of the prime aims of UKCIA is to see a properly regualted trade in cannabis, which would include age limits for purchase. So no, children shouldn’t using cannabis. Under prohibition, there is nothing to stop them however.

As to your othe points I think they are quite distasteful really and there have always been people with mental heatlh problems as you describe, long before cannabis became popular.

And yes, there have been several studies of cannabis use and intelligence, check out the research section of UKCIA

It’s strange isn’t it how some people seem to know lots of cannabis users who became mentally harmed in some way, whereas most of us who have been close t the culture for some time never met any.

There is this tall, blue eyed, handsome man living in London who smokes it daily. He now works at a hospital and claims cannabis is not harmful. Yet, after smoking it for many years, whereas he used to display intelligence, now he cannot understand simple math equations and worse, misinterprets 80-90% of very simple sentences. He has other visible signs of physical, mental malfunction problems. No, do not think that, there is palpable evidence (proof) he was not always like that. It was only after the years of use that his brain became “addled”. He always keeps a good size stash in his flat, smokes daily and smells like pot, yet he wants to get married and have children! As a woman, would you have his child, that is, knowingly let YOUR child being created with such sperm and worse, be raised by such a man?

If you do get pregnant from such a person, it is better to give the child up for adoption so that he can never have a hand in raising a child who already has problems just by being created by such defective sperm.

I wonder if a study has been made of people’s IQ and other mental capacity and intelligence measurements at age 20 and again 20 years later, with half the test subjects using cannabis daily and the other half not. The people I have observed who used cannabis for many years display paranoia, some sociopathic symptoms (no consideration of others’ feelings and others), obvious narcissistic actions and reactions to everyday functions, some with daily use also display some schizophrenic symptoms.