Have you ever thought to know your intelligence level?

Nah. In kindergarten, they gave me a 144. At about age 30 or so, I bought a "self-scoring IQ test" at some bookstore for about five bucks, and scored 142, while high. %-}

So it just shows to go you, a high IQ is no guarantee that you're not an idiot. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Geez, first you Rich and now Michael Phelps... apparently you can be smart and athletic even if you toke a few joints, eh? :-)

Joel Koltner wrote:

Actually, beyond not being bad for you, there's some thought that it might be **good** for you.

Of course! Phelps really screwed up - what he should have said was something like "Anti-drug laws cause more damage than any drug ever has. There is no constitutional authorization to do violence to persons who have done no harm."

But he wimped out. Sigh.

Thanks, Rich

Marijuana is chemotherapy for the cancer of big government.

Cheers! Rich

"Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@doubleclick.net...

If my major source of income were endorsement deals where I was being portrayed as an "all American politically-correct emotionally-sensitive kind of guy," I probably would wimp out too. :-)

After the olympics last year, I read a "whatever happened to..." story on former olympic atheletes. Somewhat surprisingly, most of them don't end up living nearly as high on the hog as, e.g., professional athletes do -- many end up with relatively mundane, not-so-high-paying jobs like sports announcers, coaches for small schools, motivational speakers, etc. They also had a story of some former Chinese medalist who ended up bedridden after her body just gave out, and while she's apparently "comfortable" she's living permnanently with her parents in borderline-poverty. :-(