How many ironies can one life have. I now find myself as an anti-drugs campaigner when the evidence of the harm that mind-altering drugs is so open and shut you have to be brain damaged not to understand it. Alas, many of those who support legalisation may well be of this brain-damaged variety.

As reported by the government’s National Institute on Drug Abuse, adolescent use of marijuana does something that alcohol does not; it causes permanent brain damage, including lowering of I.Q.

No reason not to think that’s possibly also true of adults.

UPDATE: Here’s more non-news along the same lines. This is from Howie Carr in the Boston Herald:

Marijuana makes you stupid.

Nobody wants to acknowledge the obvious fact, but that’s what this whole legalization debate is all about. That’s why most of the candidates for governor, of both parties, have come out against legalization, even if they have to obfuscate why they’re opposed to the Colorado-ization of Massachusetts.

After all, the pols can’t offend that pivotal ganja-American voting bloc, assuming they can remember to vote in November.

What a voting bloc the Democrats are constructing. It may not work for society as a whole, but as long as they remember to vote should work wonders, at least for them.