| Okay, since you brought the subject up. While MJ, as well as alcohlol are fairly harmess to the non-addict, there is another factor that will affect the addict even though it causes no physical harm. This item is called state memory.
State memory is the effect of learning something in an altered state, lets say you have an important test in the morning, a monday morning and you did not sleep saturday night. So you find something to help keep you awake to study for the test. You figure that if you study good the day before and get a good nights sleep you are set, right? Then you wake up monday morning and go to class, you are fresh and relaxed, but you cannot remember anything you studied because you studied it when you were sleepy, and hyped up on caffine (or something else).
Yes, the above is a special case and not going to happen very much. But the fact is that if you spend a third of your life high, a third of it drunk, and a third of it sober, you could be 30 years old and have access to less knowedge than the average 14 year old. If you know someone that learned to play pool while drinking and does not play well until their second or third drink, you are witnessing state memory.
Drugs do not have to "hurt" you, to mess up your life. |