Students who smoke MJH perform less

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/25/these-college-students-lost-access-to-legal-pot-and-started-getting-better-grades/?utm_term=.96989f361512

These college students lost access to legal pot — and started getting better grades

A new study provides credible evidence that marijuana legalization will lead to decreased academic success. (Elaine Thompson/AP)

The most rigorous study yet of the effects of marijuana legalization has identified a disturbing result: College students with access to recreational cannabis on average earn worse grades and fail classes at a higher rate.

Economists Olivier Marie and Ulf Zölitz took advantage of a decision by Maastricht, a city in the Netherlands, to change the rules for “cannabis cafes,” which legally sell recreational marijuana. Because Maastricht is very close to the border of multiple European countries (Belgium, France and Germany), drug tourism was posing difficulties for the city. Hoping to address this, the city barred noncitizens of the Netherlands from buying from the cafes.

This policy change created an intriguing natural experiment at Maastricht University, because students there from neighboring countries suddenly were unable to access legal pot, while students from the Netherlands continued.

The research on more than 4,000 students, published in the Review of Economic Studies, found that those who lost access to legal marijuana showed substantial improvement in their grades. Specifically, those banned from cannabis cafes had a more than 5 percent increase in their odds of passing their courses. Low performing students benefited even more, which the researchers noted is particularly important because these students are at high-risk of dropping out. The researchers attribute their results to the students who were denied legal access to marijuana being less likely to use it and to suffer cognitive impairments (e.g., in concentration and memory) as a result.

Other studies have tried to estimate the impact of marijuana legalization by studying those U.S. states that legalized medicinal or recreational marijuana. But marijuana policy researcher Rosalie Pacula of RAND Corporation noted that the Maastricht study provide evidence that “is much better than anything done so far in the United States.”

States differ in countless ways that are hard for researchers to adjust for in their data analysis, but the Maastricht study examined similar people in the same location — some of them even side by side in the same classrooms — making it easier to isolate the effect of marijuana legalization. Also, Pacula pointed out that since voters in U.S. states are the ones who approve marijuana legalization, it creates a chicken and egg problem for researchers (i.e. does legalization make people smoke more pot, or do pot smokers tend to vote for legalization?). This methodological problem was resolved in the Maastricht study because the marijuana policy change was imposed without input from those whom it affected.

Although this is the strongest study to date on how people are affected by marijuana legalization, no research can ultimately tell us whether legalization is a good or bad decision: That’s a political question and not a scientific one. But what the Maastricht study can do is provides highly credible evidence that marijuana legalization will lead to decreased academic success — perhaps particularly so for struggling students — and that is a concern that both proponents and opponents of legalization should keep in mind.

[dannydevito 10,658]

i smoked it and i turned out fine

[PartySick 174,865]

Well yeah  pot makes most people all kinds of lazy...and hungry

Who wants to study when you're seeing colors in the air and your bones turn to rubber?

Though bad grades > decade(s) long sentences for holding a few ounces

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

I want to smoke ARTPOP or Aura instead  they seem way more psychedelic 

[Allan 3,948]

So do students that use social networks frequently, so do students that are addicted to GGD, so do students that have anxiety problems, and so it goes... I don't think this is a valid reason to be against the legalization, there might be a bunch of more impactful ones tbh.

[ryanripley 86,575]

isn't it a fact that overuse of marijuana before the brain is fully developed causes problems?  

but this isn't a reason to keep it illegal, spending too much doing anything apart from your classwork will cause you to perform less  

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4 minutes ago, Allan said:

So do students that use social networks frequently, so do students that are addicted to GGD, so do students that have anxiety problems, and so it goes... I don't think this is a valid reason to be against the legalization, there might be a bunch of more impactful ones tbh.

The problem is the misuse of its legalization. Instead of focusing on improving health, curing diseases, etc, which are its primary goal and is already achieved, they voted for its legalization above all problems the whole world possesses to satiate their selfish recreation. They're taking advantage of what seems to be for medical purposes only, and it backfired on them.

But these selected students for this experiment may be dumb af for all we know 

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2 minutes ago, ryanripley said:

isn't it a fact that overuse of marijuana before the brain is fully developed causes problems?  

but this isn't a reason to keep it illegal, spending too much doing anything apart from your classwork will cause you to perform less  

I don't think it could become illegal again after it's been legalized  but Trump's America could mean anything 

[ryanripley 86,575]

Just now, MetalliGa said:

I don't think it could become illegal again after it's been legalized  but Trump's America could mean anything 

i meant like in countries like the UK etc  people may use this as ammo to be anti-legal weed when really, it's as useful as marshmallows in a shotgun  

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[SonOfAphrodite 1,838]

30 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Well yeah  pot makes most people all kinds of lazy...and hungry

Who wants to study when you're seeing colors in the air and your bones turn to rubber?

Though bad grades > decade(s) long sentences for holding a few ounces

girl what are you smoking ??? 

as with anything you should be responsible and use in moderation 

[Born To Slay 10,996]

I'm not shocked. Drugs are not healthy.

[Gagaloo911 12,959]

Yea well it's not like it's the ONLY thing affecting their academic success. 

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3 minutes ago, Gagaloo92 said:

Yea well it's not like it's the ONLY thing affecting their academic success. 

It is tho. They stopped for a while and started to do better   

[LordEnigma 11,313]

9 minutes ago, Born To Slay said:

I'm not shocked. Drugs are not healthy.

Then why do they use it medically 🤔