he just questioned the morality of pot as an aide in student studies
No I didn't.
I challenged the appropriateness of a #1 hn post from a student who uses drugs to get by and then brags about it.
The reaction seems very mob-like.
I didn't know what to expect, but this was no surprise. Since "net" scores are the only thing that show, I'm curious how many up votes and down votes there were. Even though the net is negative, I wonder how many people agreed.
It would have been more meaningful if he was a physics or science PhD. A pot smoking liberal arts PhD is... eh. Not news.
Right. Until some voted it up to #1 here.
I voted you up just based on all the crowd-voting going on.
Sorry about misrepresenting your post. It had been a while since you posted it, and it's gone now.
I thought it was funny -- reminded me of a cranky old guy saying "Dang kids today! Toking up and killing brain cells"
Note I'm a libertarian and don't think that government has any business with what I choose to ingest. But heck, if you want to post an article on how good it is to toke up for your schoolwork, you gotta expect to hear some people who disagree for various reasons, right? What do you guys want, to be able to smoke it up and not have anybody say "what a waste -- can't you succeed without all the partying?" The reaction seems very mob-like.
There's all kinds of cool subtopics to this - the role of self-medication, the differences between pot and alcohol cutlures, the various moral implications of ingesting various substances, the stereotypical toked-up college liberal going to school for life, etc. Fun stuff to kick around, in my opinion.