My view on the matter is that Cannabis only effects my immediate memory. For instance, i'll be sitting on the couch watching a movie, and i'll get up to go take a shit, while i'm on the crapper, I can't remember what movie was I was just watching. Eventually it comes to me, it just takes alittle longer for me to remember. I know i'm not going to be smoking all my life. Once I have kids to raise, i'll have to give it a rest. So i'm really not too worried about my memory.