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My dad is being completely ignorant on the subject of me smoking marijuana. He caught me about a month ago with a pack of cigarettes and Visine (obviously guessing what the Visine was for). He gave me the silent treatment for a few days, drank himself into a semi-coma, then told me he won't drink if I don't smoke.

So now I ask him, why? Why can't I smoke? What are you basing that decision off of? You smoked back in highschool, so why can't I find all these so called "bad things" about marijuana?

I have shown him documents written by actual doctors and scientists, research reports online, etc. in hopes that he might be persuaded. He stands by his story that marijuana is bad for you, that it slows you down, makes you stupid, makes your grades fall, and kills your brain cells.

He basically gives me a Reefer Madness explanation with nothing to back it up. He has had extensive experience in the drug world (alcohol, fentanyl, marijuana, cocaine, percosets, vicodin, cigarettes, etc), but tells me marijuana is just as addictive as nicotine and alcohol.

Is he being totally rational, and I'm just stuck inside of my marijuana-infested mind? Or am I the correct one and have the actual evidence versus his dead-set moral system?