XPost: talk.politics.drugs   
   From: repro007@hotmail.com   
      
   MP wrote:   
   > "Zaphod B. \"Stil prez\""  wrote in message   
   > news:<4bttc.2922$YZ4.1535@bignews2.bellsouth.net>...   
   >   
   >> Not according to my shrink who is one of the most respected ones   
   >> around here. According to him   
   >> 1. Pot is a gateway drug that leads to heroin   
   >   
   > Doesn't say much for the education of shrinks in your area. Any   
   > correlation between pot use and later hard drug use can be explained   
   > simply by the people willing to try pot being more willing than others   
   > to try heroin.   
   >   
   >> 2. Pot can cause psychotic episodes in the right person.   
   >> 3. Causes brain damage.   
   >   
   > Also true of alcohol.   
   >   
   Normal Cannabis use cannot cause brain damage. I thought this myth had been   
   well and truly debunked already. The irony being that proper scientific   
   studies have found it actually has neuroprotective properties.   
      
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