Well PabloMack
I have used it to relieve me of Migraine occurrences since 1966, about the time I started playing guitar and all these decades later I am still focused and able to learn new things musical as well as teach same to any who ask. When my eyes went South focus wise I migrated to computers in 1995 to be able to still do graphics. Although I was relegated to a trade type school in a 'social experiment' locally called the Major Work Program, and was never given the access to higher math, and board feet and calculating area et al was what I was taught, I developed intuitive skills that helped me circumvent that lack and do not too badly in Terragen and modeling in Imagine3D.
Given that I am colour blind like a high percent of males, my work around using colour pickers and establishing colour that way I still struggle a bit but it hasn't dulled my creative edge. I now smoke, on a daily basis, a decreasing amount compared to what we smoked when I was young and it's almost not an expense.
As soon as it's fully legal here I should be done with smoking as I've almost got tobacco under control and from what a friend tells me edibles are as, if not more, effective as smoking the Herb, that will be my choice
Maybe do some current research on Medicinal Cannabis as lots of research has been conducted since your research on the brain.
Having attended(well walked through) a 420 'celebration' here yesterday I agree that many who smoke ought to rethink their method and just go back to alcohol if intoxication is what they seek.
I don't recommend it to all and sundry but I do know at least 3 peers who went through a cancer dilemma and Cannabis/Herb is all that helped overcome the poisoning of follow up chemo therapy and one who's Dr. stopped his chemo when he saw such positive results from using 'edibles'. He's in remission as cancer never really ends, just apparently backs off.
So in my 70th year of life and my 52nd year of Herb use I figure I'll continue.
Thanks for your input and if you have a link to that lecture, surely it was published as well, I really like to read it.