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> being a heavy marijuana user is correlated with other features that are causal for infection risk, e.g. unhealthy diet, inconsistent sleep, lack of exercise.

FYI, I've smoked weed every day for 44 years straight.

Today, I am at, or near the peak, of my physical health (180 lb, 6'2, daily swimmer), I sleep like a baby and wake up every day at 8 am. And I swim every day.

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> Today, I am at, or near the peak, of my physical health (180 lb, 6'2, daily swimmer)

Swimmers, in general, are optimistic and far more tolerant of misery, and you haven't accounted for that bias.

FYI, I've smoked every day for about 6 years and definitely get inconsistent sleep and less exercise than I'd prefer. Correlation doesn't have to be an r-squared of 1.

This is why we use statistics and probability when analyzing data. No model is going to perfectly describe everybody. A couple of individual counterexamples is not necessarily strong evidence against a trend or association.

Also there are plenty of other athletes who swear by marijuana usage, you aren't even unique in that! My point is that the stereotype of a heavy marijuana user is very different from you, and that said stereotype could provide an alternative causal mechanism that we need to be accounted for in research.

if you were so proud about it, you wouldn't create a socket puppy to post it...

or s/he could be in a country or position where for whatever reason it is prohibited, or could be see as admitting to a crime as no where in the US had legalized weed 44 years ago... I have zero problem stating that I am frequent user but I also have the benefit of only every smoking with a medical card and have never frequented a black marker dealer, so what is your response to me? Still want to tell me im evil and smoking the devils lettuce?

its not about you. Its about him. He can say that he is 2m, 100kg, but in the end he is a 1.60m, 120kg chubby hobbit and we are never going to know. Those anecdotes have 0 value, specially coming from a HN user, who decided to get a socket puppet to post. It is just noise.

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