That explains soooooo much.
Hah - I was just going to post, “Can we not turn this thread into another episode of The Diogenes Show?” 
Sorry about your workshop, Cartooniverse. Here’s hoping that one idiot won’t besmirch your good name.
Are you high?
That would be fine if you made no claim whatsoever. That’s not the case, though. You likewise made a claim – namely, that marijuana does not affect one’s cognitive abilities or motor skills. You made that claim, so it’s just as fair to ask you to defend it.
As MsWhatsit said though, you continually hold yourself to a much lower standard. “I’m right because I say so” is not a valid form of argumentation.
My guess? He “found” it in the bin by diving down head-first, taking it out from under his jacket, and putting it there.
<argument sketch> Yes it is. </as>
That’s my guess. He was hoping it wouldn’t be noticed until after it was over and he was gone. When he realsized he could easily be discoverd he “found” it.
NO IT ISN"T
ding Sorry times up.
A classic.
Yeah I’m having trouble following what happened too. So, the people owning the camera saw through the surveillance cams that stoner-guy did it, but since he brought it back, they decided to play it like he hadn’t stole it to avoid to embarass him (maybe?)?
I’ll also have to go with “self-serving pothead twaddle”. There’s a goodly amount of researchthat’s been done on the question of pot use and cognitive impairment, and it does not support your anecdote-based claim.
And if you truly wouldn’t care if your doctor was stoned, you’re an idiot. Having a family doctor high on pot wouldn’t pose as immediate a threat as being operated on by a stoned brain surgeon, but some dire things could happen if your doc took a flawed history under the influence, ordered inappropriate tests and prescribed you the wrong drugs.
State medical boards do not grant exemption from sanctions if one’s drug of abuse is marijuana, nor should they.
And me makes three. If Cartooniverse has seen video footage of aforementioned junkie-toerag’s thieving exploits, he’s entitled to his rant.
Oh, please. Don’t do this again. You make a statement which is true in some hyperbolic sense, but then when called on you draw a fjord in the sand and refuse to give an inch. The TRUTH is that one might be able to function pretty well after smoking pot. BUt it depends both on the quality and quantity. I haven’t smoked pot for years and years, but I know damn well that it can bake your brain. I remember sitting on a couch trying hard to recollect the steps necessary to stand up.
Also, a lot of my friends liked to smoke pot when we skied. But I hated it. I was really into skiing and pushing myself in some gnarly areas—off cornices and out of bounds—and being high simply interfered with that. Now those are FACTS. So, just smoke a bowl and ease up. Pot can and does definitely inhibit performance.
Look, I can’t help it if you buy the cheap stuff that doesn’t really get you stoned.
Me also too. Was there video footage showing the theft, or is the OP just assuming that the person who “found” it was the thief?
That assumption would represent the most probable scenario, but not any sort of certainty.
This article comes from a subscription database of medical literature.
A quick read through the conclusions and/or the abstracts of a few other papers suggests that, while marijuana (or, to be more precise, the THC in marijuana) can and does impair cognitive and motor skills in most users, there are some users who show little or no effect from using the drug. This is generally explained by a combination of genetic predisposition (i.e., some people seem to have a sort of natural resistance to the effects) and accumulated tolerance (i.e., some people who smoke a lot can build up their tolerance for it, and avoid some of the worst effects).
Obviously, as the above-cited study and other similar studies demonstrate, the strength of the weed (its THC content) plays a role in levels of impairment, and in how long this impairment lasts.
I’m not trying to make an argument for or against weed here. I don’t use it myself, but i know plenty of people who do, and i have no problem with people who use it. I have a medical marijuana dispensary within a couple of blocks of my house, and i think that’s excellent. I’m also hoping California passes Prop 19 and legalizes the stuff in November. But a blanket statement that it doesn’t impair cognitive or motor function is simply unsupported by the recent medical literature.
A criminals a criminal.
But was it weak pot, or weak school?
That depends on how wasted you are. I’ve definitely been too stoned to think.
Are the effects of habitual marijuana use any worse than the effects of habitual alcohol use?
Thanks for the cite. I am one of those people who never seemed to suffer any impairment. My friends would often comment on it a lot that I seemed more straight when I was stoned than when I wasn’t (I’m naturally kind of a space case. Pot actually seemed to clear me up and help me concentrate).
I still maintain that whatever imparment occurs is still pretty negligable even for those more susceptable to it, and anyone who’s ever been a stoner or around stoners knows that it’s not even close to the same kind of impairment as being drunk.