There are plenty of studies that show regular users of marijuana have slower motor response rates. Additionally, It's well known that marijuana has long term impacts on brain chemistry. I think the solubility, the difference between water soluble alcohol and lipid soluble marijuana is ignored by everyone now.

It's only been within the past 15 years, when a male can cut his pecker off and get validated as a female by the medical community that most of this isn't acknowledged.

I'm not saying there isn't a place for it, especially in a world that prescribes mind altering drugs like anti depressants instead of recommending people go to counseling or look into religion.

But recreationally, those who use pot often are damaging their intellect abilities permanently. Whereas, with alcohol, they're generally damaging their liver and kidneys, beyond the dependency factors which exist for both