Unfortunately in order to properly refute this it would require me writing a formal retort with opposing medical research cited. i don't really have time to gather and write up that many resources for the sake of some post on the flood. If you actually get access to a medical database of research at your college i would ask you to look through it and also to look up independent research from other countries rather than just looking a .gov and going "government said it must be true." Particularly the first and final paragraphs are the most inaccurate to the research i have been reading. They make far to many assumptions and are far to broad. It is very very difficult to link anything to mental illness with any more convincing certainty than loose correlation. And saying that chronic users statistically have a worse life is just putting the cause before the effect. They are smoking Pot because they have troubles they are deciding to handle with cannabis, self medicating, they don't have the troubles because of cannabis. that's just backwards.