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College students lost access to legal pot and started getting better grades

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Re: College students lost access to legal pot and started getting better grades

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Post by perpetualcrayon »

perpetualcrayon wrote: post #8

It might be interesting for them to keep track of how long it takes the black market to reappear, and see whether the negatives that come along with allowing criminals to monopolize the business of dealing drugs to people in the area reappear also.

Come to think of it, given that they state in the article:

  drug tourism was posing difficulties for the city
I wonder if they take into account the fact that these "problems" could've been affecting students and their grades as well. What happens if only the "drug tourism" disappeared?

Re: College students lost access to legal pot and started getting better grades

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Post by venning »

devrandomguy wrote: post #4

I bet banning refined sugar products would have a more significant effect.

Honest question: is there any evidence that refined sugar has a deleterious effect on brain function? I can find this: [1], but I'm not sure how to interpret it.

Yes, weed and sugar are both addictive, but it is my understanding that the reduction in performance is not due to the addiction itself.

[1] http://neuro.hms.harvard.edu/harvard-mahoney-neuroscience-in...

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Post by travisjungroth »

chillwaves wrote: post #14
meri_dian wrote: post #2

Weed is not a panacea. Some people foolishly think otherwise. It should still be legalized, but we have to be realistic about its negatives

Nobody believes weed will make you better at studying. Nobody.

Not directly, but many people take weed to relax or relieve anxiety and believe that those things are helpful for their studies.

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Post by FullMtlAlcoholc »

venning wrote: post #12
devrandomguy wrote: post #4

I bet banning refined sugar products would have a more significant effect.

Honest question: is there any evidence that refined sugar has a deleterious effect on brain function? I can find this: [1], but I'm not sure how to interpret it. Yes, weed and sugar are both addictive, but it is my understanding that the reduction in performance is not due to the addiction itself. [1] http://neuro.hms.harvard.edu/harvard-mahoney-neuroscience-in...

While I'm not aware of any study that ties intake of excess sugar to a decline in cognitive function, there was a study that linked diets with a high glycemic index to higher rates of depression, specifically post menopausal as the participants were new mothers:

http://m.ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2015/06/24/ajcn.11...

Re: College students lost access to legal pot and started getting better grades

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Post by sevenfive »

chillwaves wrote: post #14
meri_dian wrote: post #2

Weed is not a panacea. Some people foolishly think otherwise. It should still be legalized, but we have to be realistic about its negatives

Nobody believes weed will make you better at studying. Nobody.

Undergrad here.

Plenty of people believe this.

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