Marijuana use has been linked to poor performance in school!

[nickx760]

sexy chicks in high school leads to bad grades, they are so distracting...but i love it

[GHoSToKeR]

You're preaching to the converted, man.

[Ganj]

I saw a huge ad in the New York Times today aimed at parents, trying to convince them to stop their kids from smoking weed or else they'll drop out of school and their hair will fall out or something. Then they hit you with some statistics to prove their point, that D students are 4 times more likely to have used marijuana in the past month than A students.

Ok, so this means that smoking pot causes bad grades, right? Well for those of you who haven't learned yet, statistics can be used to prove just about anything you want. This ad makes out pot to be a cause, and bad grades an effect. Now this may very well be true, but what if it goes deeper than that? What if pot use and bad grades are both symptoms of another affliction?

Now, I didn't use pot until the summer after I graduated high school (I'm a sophomore in college now), but the majority of kids who smoked pot and got bad grades in my high school had troubled home lives. For some kids I knew this to be a fact, but for others, it's just too obvious. The academic achievers (some of whom smoked weed) in my school were, by and large, from loving and intact families.

Now, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that when Dad is out of the picture and Mom is struggling with two jobs and is verbally abusive, getting high looks like a great idea. Such an environment doesn't exactly create the self-esteem and motivation needed to excel in school either. So does this make pot the cause of the problems in school?

Learn to pick out these half-truths in the anti-pot propaganda.

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[Ganj]

of course...blame marijuana for your children dropping out. it wouldn't look too good if the media blamed the parents and the children. too bad. i dropped out because i was too focused on dicking around and not giving a damn that i dicked my way right to a g.e.d.

[Shane O Mac]

Thats bollocks because i know someone who was high whilst doin there exams n ge didnt get below a c in anything

[beachguy in thongs]

Yo, it just hit me that I've pulled a Ricky Williams before...and then was taken off the roster, for life.

[Storm Crow]

I think it is rather funny that they claim that smoking pot lowers grades. Last time around in college (graduated in 2001), I hung with the intellectual/stoner crowd. I don't think that any of us had lower than a "B" average. I wrote most of my papers stoned (although I cleaned them up straight) and graduated with honors and a 3.76 GPA. Doesn't seemed to have hurt MY grades.

[chisme]

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[highjinx]

how come they let the kids be stoned in school....
new laws or people just lying again????

[goodtimmy]

I got baked virtually every day of my Junior and Senior years of high school and my grades were fine. The people I saw getting bad grades has no ambition to get a higher education, so high school didn't matter to them. A lot of the "dumbasses" who got bad grades and barely graduated, are now running million-dollar companies and pulling 6 figures per. Home life plays a factor, but the goals and expectations which come from the parents are just as important.