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MarkostheGnostic said:
None taken. It is phenomenologically identical as symptoms go. Names change across time. I have seen worse cannabis-related developmental problems, like when an 18 year old who has been stealing and using cannabis since he is 6 has normal processes and understanding of empathy disrupted. Not exactly sociopathic, but non-comprehending of why, for example, a man becomes frantic when his dog is hit by a car, and explains the event like: 'I suppose the man was upset because the dog was a good Frisby player, and if he died, the man was probably worried about where he was going to find another good Frisby-playing dog.' A sterling example of long-term and possibly permanent personality damage due to early cannabis use.

I started cannabis use New Years Eve 1969 and was pretty much done with it a decade later. It's use stunted my own emotional growth, not so much physiologically, but psychosocially ("...the hashish eater would not lift as much as a finger for the prettiest maiden in Venice."). It enhanced my introvertive nature when learning to extravert would have been more developmentally efficacious. It was escapist, and I wasted a good deal of time being stoned. Fortunately, in returning to grad school, I could not afford the dope or the time being stoned.

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