Cannabis, for the most part, helped with my academics. My teachers enjoyed my "novel" takes on subjects they had seen a thousand times. My Lit teacher said she "saved my papers for dessert"! I was ripped out of my gourd when I wrote most of them! I look at cannabis as a "mind lubricant", the ideas get slippery and flow in new ways. Language arts, psych, art, anthro, history- all went well with getting stoned.

My grammar and spelling did suffer, but that was easily taken care of by going over the papers later in a more sober frame of mind. The ideas, themselves, were "golden". I graduated with honors- not bad for a gal in her mid-50s!

Studying, I had a mixed approach. I would skim read the text sober. Then get ripped and re-read while taking notes. Later, I would re-read a third time, sober, but with the "stoned" notes. My insights while stoned are quite different from the ones I get sober.

Taking tests I would have a puff or two, to take off the edge (test anxiety ), but not "stoned".

Math was a totally different proposition! I am not a "math person"! To do math, I must be absolutely sober. I squeak by with a "C".

I am about one semester short of a BA in psychology. My GPA was a 3.78, if I remember rightly. (Went back to work in 2001 and dropped out, but I will go back) I work as a teacher's aide in Special Education. I do not wish to be a teacher. I have all the fun of teaching (I work with a great gal! :thumbsup and NONE of the ton of paperwork! I am the only aide who can handle 8th grade math.