Steve Yegge comes to rescue:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;steve-yegge.blogspot.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;have-you-ever-legalized-marijuana.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;steve-yegge.blogspot.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;have-you-ever-legali...</a><p>So... one minor, teeny-weeny almost insigificant caveat before I continue: I have smoked marijuana (and inhaled it, deeply) on more occasions than I can count. And yet I&#x27;m almost undoubtedly smarter than your kid that you&#x27;re so goddamned worried about. I skipped three grades (3rd, 7th and 8th), entered high school at age 11 and graduated at age 14, took A.P. courses, had stellar SAT scores, was a U.S. Navy nuclear reactor operator, went to the University of Washington and earned a Computer Science degree, worked at major corporations like Amazon.com and Google for many years as a senior staff engineer and&#x2F;or senior development manager, and now I&#x27;m an internationally famous blogger.<p>I don&#x27;t usually dwell on that, but today it&#x27;s relevant. It&#x27;s relevant because I&#x27;ve smoked a LOT of pot, and I dare you to prove that it has impaired me in any scientifically detectable way. We would debate, and you would lose; nevertheless I double-dog dare you.