Once you have kids, it all changes, well it should if you want to set a good example for your kids.
No, I think you will be okay, you just gotta quit smoking the stuff and let your brain start to reroute and clean up the clouds.
It will take some time, but when I was younger, I had some pretty good memory loss, but now I can remember so many details about the past while growing up that it's to the point where it is scary for some of my family members that I can remember that stuff, and they never toked.
No I did not read that thread about getting your stuff back, but I can only imagine you either had a good lawyer, knew someone, needed it for supposed medical reasons, or the cops smoked some of it before you got there and became complacent little kittens. ha, ha.