http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-food/201012/alcohol-vs-marijuana-in-the-brain

No I am not a typical pothead trying to prove to the world that weed smoking isnt bad for you.
Everything in its own sense is bad for you. It would just be pretty interesting if they found
out it does increase the rate of neurogenesis. Can you imagine the amout of people who start
smoking weed to increase the amount of retention of their memory span.
Obviously with anything like this you must take it with a grain of salt.

tl'dr version:
Alcohol is still bad for you
Weed might actually increase the rate in which neurogenesis occurs

Edit:
I posted this in general chat last night so if you read it there its the same one.

This post was edited by impulse155 on Dec 14 2010 11:41am

Just did a 12 page research paper on the effects of THC on cognitive function/memory.

Basically, slows the process of memory several days after smoking, causes an increase in risk-taking, and slower rationale.

What about long term effects?

why the hell do you have alcohol is still bad for you? i hope you realize that alcohol has several positive effects along with negative effects- like every other drug.


tl'dr version:
Weed is still bad for you
Alcohol raises the concentration of "good" cholesterol !

increases random firing of neurons..

That would be really fucking scary if that's what smoking pot really did to you. I don't want to turn into a bag of skin!

meh

pot should be legal and used in moderation. its not meant to smoke it every day

I think it should be legal and people should stop giving a fuck what other people want to do in their spare time.

people are too stupid to make marijuana legal. sure while illegal its pretty easy to get at least there is punishment for all levels of it at that point which serves as a deterrent for a significant number of people.

That post made little to no sense.