I wasn't talking about the government in any way here. I don't know what the government tells people. I guess I didn't have those classes in school or ???
The reasons you posted are many of the same things the government claims is true. This information is passed down via schools, it also comes down through tv shows, commercials and word of mouth. It doesn't matter if you got it from a government page, the government is the main source of this type of disinformation.
Did you read my last few posts? I only know what I have seen and heard from those who have experienced it. It isn't hard to put it together what they tell you their life and how drugs screwed up so much of their lives. The drug was more important than family, etc... Many of those I know started drugs in the 70's and years later then are getting free with much remorse and paid a huge price. They would all say stay away from pot even if pot wasn't the only thing involved. I don't need a government to tell me their stories, in fact if the government was to get involved it probably wouldn't have helped them much.
Ahh yes just like anything can have a form of addictiveness, pot is not addictive like crack, heroin, cigarettes, etc, etc. Caffeine is also addictive, so is chocolate, should those be banned? Surely doesn't appear to be a good reason to ban something when something a child can go and buy legally at any store has the same effect. 'if' smoked it can. Pot does not need to be smoked, one of the main reasons it's smoked is because of the laws banning it. If anything this is a reason to make it legal. Long been debunked. Even 'if' it did, so do many, many other substances. A myth. Most who use 'other drugs' start with tobacco or liquor, the true gateway drugs. Most pot users do not use harder drugs. Of course you have those who simply will try anything, this isn't pot causing it, but the person themselves. It surely does not help when people are lied to about pot being bad, they try pot and find it to not be the menace people claimed. Next thing you know they don't believe you on crack being as bad as claimed.' Yes it does, so does drinking, having a tan, after a workout or massage. How do you figure? People who smoke pot smoke very, very little compared to that of a cigarette. Most also smoke pot away from children, not next to children like they do with cigarettes. Hemp is not 'pot'
The things you stated would not be in almost all cases known by someone from simply smoking pot. This would not tell them about cancer, about addictiveness, pretty much about anything you posted except maybe about reaction times. Yes I did read what you posted, I also know from first hand being an X pot smoker, knowing many, many pot smokers, current and X, many crack smokers and other hard drugs, many alcoholics and cigarette smokers to know fact from fiction. ---in other words they may have told you this, but where did their info come from? Almost guaranteed from the governments mantra.