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Would love to see the same experiment repeated somehow, but for alcohol / partying. Then compare the two.
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.
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.
Still less detrimental to a life than prison, because let's face it - legal or not, students will smoke pot.
Weed is not a panacea. Some people foolishly think otherwise. It should still be legalized, but we have to be realistic about its negatives
It also shouldn't need saying that this is hardly unique to pot. Also, it won't change. How many millennia have been spent since someone figured out fruit ferments into something that makes you feel good? And yet people continue to slide into alcoholism every day, in every culture. Even the ones where it is illegal.
That said, sure, I can see a temporary effect where legal pot is "new" (really, very old, but that's a different discussion), and so trendy, and the media feedback-loop kicks in so certain kinds of parents have something vaguely novel to upset themselves with. We'll be past that in a generation.
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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.
They believe it's helpful to their life in general, which this study isn't measuring. Nobody in their right mind smokes weed to improve their GPA.
I bet banning refined sugar products would have a more significant effect.
Seriously though, I don't get what we're supposed to take away from your statement. Your guess that there might be something worse than weed? Just because weed causes less problems than something else doesn't mean it causes no problems.
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?