Some of the dangers of Cannabis include..

[Hekate]

42. Interesting. Well, we now know he is ADHD, which drives other people crazy. OTT, I don't know

Typically for ADHD, though, he started self-medicating early. He was smoking tobacco by age 12 and drinking in high school. When he graduated from high school at 17 he moved out of home, got a job as a dishwasher, and had a goal of getting drunk every single day for that summer of 1966. Oddly enough he moved back home broke and jobless by the end of the summer.

Since tobacco is known to have a calming effect on the brains of those with ADHD (or it was the last time I read about it), that seems to be why the Joe Camel ad campaign was targeted at barely adolescent boys with such success. Worked for my daughter, who was just the right age and disposition for that ad campaign. My brother just had to start up the usual way.

Of all the people in my family who ever tried cigarettes, those two remain the most thoroughly hooked.

Lest anyone here think I'm just an old meanie for my comments about driving other people crazy, you didn't have to live with him. Now that we know what it is my sister and I can pretty confidently say ADD and ADHD run in the family. (I'm moderately ADD myself, but developed coping techniques that served me pretty well, despite my mother believing I was being a space cadet just to spite her. Sis, otoh, became a highly focused engineer.)

When I say that pot should be regulated like alcohol, I do know the hazards of alcohol. The same brother -- well, that runs in the family as well. And Prohibition of alcohol was a resounding failure, despite best intentions. Better to just acknowledge that most people like a quiet drink now and then, or a convivial couple of drinks with friends, and that a minority should never touch the stuff. Try to keep it out of the hands of kids under 21, heavily fine or jail the DUIs, and leave the rest of society alone to occasionally legally alter reality a bit.