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Cannabis Smoking Makes Students Less Likely To Pass University Courses
Bruce66423 writes: A large scale European study shows that students who were unable to buy cannabis legally were 5% more likely to pass their University courses. Below-average students with no legal access to pot were 7.6% more likely to pass their courses, and the effect was five times more pronounced when dealing with courses involving math. One of the study's authors said, "We think this newfound effect on productivity from a change in legal access to cannabis is not negligible and should be, at least in the short run, politically relevant for any societal drug legalization and prohibition decision-making. In the bigger picture, our findings also indicate that soft drug consumption behavior is affected by their legal accessibility, which has not been causally demonstrated before. ... Considering the massive impact on cognitive performance high levels of THC have, I think it is reasonable to at least inform young users much more on consequences of consuming such products as compared with that of having a beer or pure vodka."
I grew up in the Deep South, and was exposed to Traditional Southern Ideals during my formative years. My parents owned a metal yard, and were moderately wealthy, so they helped pay for me to attend an Ivy League college. My first year was spent studying the Humanities, but I switched after that and majored in Anthropology. During my studies I learned from professors who would likely be pejoratively labelled as "social justice warriors" by many here. My opinions and beliefs did change after this experience. I realized that the Traditional Southern Ideals I was exposed to as a youth were wrong. It turns out that men do unjustly prevent women from excelling, even in the modern world. Visible minorities are repeatedly victimized by whites. Africa had great civilizations millennia before anyone else did. Although I was brought up to believe that white men had accomplished great things, in college I learned that the opposite is true. Everything good in our modern society is the work of everyone but white men. So while you may think that I was "re-educated", I prefer to look at it as me being enlightened. I learned what the truth is. I learned what the reality of reality is. Opening one's mind to the truth is not "re-education". College is not a "re-education camp". College is a place where those who know nothing go to learn about how the real world works.