Cannabis

I have no idea how reliable this is considered by professionals in the field. Considering that they may be using the app while stoned, or drunk, or both, brings up some obvious questions.

There is an obvious chicken/egg question-- are generally less aggressive people drawn toward weed? My personal experience is yes, but that's merely my personal experience. I don't hang out much with biker gangs and do what Breed called "Killer Weed". (Tried it once, though, and it's, umm..., not your Papa's pot. They don't let on what the extra ingredients are)

So, over quite a few years of smoking everything from mild home grown to whacky weed and Afghani opiated hash, I have never, ever seen a violent act started by potheads. Stupid acts? Yeah, a lot of those. A whole lot. But most of the time that's part of the fun. (Unless someone gets hurt)

Haven't seen any violence from users of other hallucinogens, either. But, again, that's just me. I always considered using alcohol and other substances to be social activities, and rarely used alone and didn't know all that many serious stoners or addicts.

That's all in the past, though, so I really don't know much about what people are doing these days. I do suspect however, that there are physical and psychological changes from psychoactive drugs. What they all are, I don't know, but I had acid flashbacks for years and something you could call "pot flashbacks". Nothing to get upset about, though. Not really any more than the same stuff we all go through in our lives.

One last point-- for many years the only funding any Federal agency would grant for pot were for "studies" that showed an intent to show something bad about the stuff. Not good science when your grant application says something like "will explore the relationship of pot smoking with wife beating".