Smoking Pot in College
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Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Who says “my high stats kid” anyway? |
Anonymous
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I smoked weed every day of my senior year of high school, and then pretty regularly throughout my time at Harvard. Yes, sometimes before class.
I did cocaine as a study aid a few times a year also at Harvard. I attended a party at my TF's off-campus apartment; everyone at the party smoked opium. And I once did acid and had a memorable afternoon looking at the Glass Flowers. |
Anonymous
It’s legalized. Isn’t this what you wanted? Isn’t this what you voted for?? |
Anonymous
The reason we discount all the “evidence” is that we were bombarded with all this propaganda in the 80s and 90s too, but we were intelligent enough to see through it and realize that pot could be fun with fewer side-effects for most people than booze. I don’t advocate smoking as much as I did in college, or taking it at all, but the fact is that many people- including most of my friends at a top 10 college- smoked pot frequently at college with no long-term damage. We are now very successful members of society. |
Anonymous
You think research is propaganda? Such a pothead response lol |
Anonymous
+100 Scientist here that gets latest med studies, reads a lot of scientific journals for work. Weed today is very different. I discourage my kids from it. |
Anonymous
| ^ mental health issues are through the roof in HS-college age kids. |
Anonymous
Is it because of drug usage or otjer factors (loneliness)? |
Anonymous
Speak for yourself. I didn't and I went to an Ivy in that era and very few of my set smoked pot on any basis. We weren't judgmental about it, but pot users, like all substance users, greatly exaggerate how many people around them use the substance. Here's the simple reality of the situation. A segment of society is high performing and can handle any substances without impeding their performance. Another segment of society cannot handle the substances without negatively impacting their well-being. We have middle class people who want to indulge in their favorite substances but stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the social costs imposed on others. Back in the early days of pot legalization someone commented to me it would be an out of the frying pan into the fire situation and that's turned out to be true. The data coming out is off the charts and not in a good way. And there are indicators to suggest we're going to see a swing back to where things were a few decades ago. |
Anonymous
| My kid smoked freshman and sophomore year. It has dwindled to almost nothing now. They also tried or did a lot of other stuff. Not narcotics and nothing with needles but shrooms and stuff. I know which of their friends did cocaine regularly too. Now they don’t do anything they are so focused on other things. I feel like it was a phase. And had I known that I would have worried less. |
Anonymous
If you think the use of weed today is anything like it was in the 90s, I have a bridge to sell you. |
Anonymous
67 |
Anonymous
| This thread must be triggering the junkies lol they are so defensive |
Anonymous
It's not legal under 21. But it's easy to get with an illegal fake ID. |