Flutterby™! : Making policy from this? 2014-03-18 19:22:33.169275+01

Making policy from this?

2014-03-18 19:22:33.169275+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The study the US Gov uses to claim pot is detrimental has insanely skewed samples. They claim "the average pot user" smokes 1,880 joints/yr.

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Seriously. Look at Table 1, "Characteristics of sample cannabis users:" http://brain.oxfordjournals.or...rly/2012/06/04/brain.aws136.full

Sheee, you don't even have to get that far into the paper to see that it's bullshit:

... Lower Global Assessment of Functioning scores are typical of the general population of cannabis users and are most likely due to cannabis use impacting on functioning in daily life.

Uh. Yeah. Correlation vs cause much?

Addendum: Elf continues:

@danlyke A National Academy of Science agrees with you: http://www.pnas.org/content/ea...3/01/09/1215678110.full.pdf+html (warning: PDF).

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