Cannabis use on campus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. No, we are not Amish. Just shocked at the widespread use of cannabis on college campuses. We walked the Yale campus and saw no fewer than one dozen incidents of cannabis use out in the open. Students were actually consuming cannabis gummy bears in a pizza parlor. It was like whole campus was stoned on a late Saturday afternoon. It was snowing too. If it’s happening at Yale like this, I can only imagine what it’s like at other schools. The sheer ubiquitousness of it is what stunned me.

Did you go to college? It was everywhere back in the 90s but we kept the joints and bongs in the dorms. That’s the only difference. And yes, this was a prestigious school and the same at all of the other schools when I went to visit friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s definitely more prevalent now than in my day.

Antidotally recently read something on DCs university parents facebook page about someone’s child having a roommate who smoked weed. The parent was upset because her child’s clothes reeked of weed and the kid wasn’t able to maintain his internship because the clothes smelled so much. It’s a real problem much more so today than in my day

My DD called campus police on her randomly assigned suitemates due to weed. They were covering the smoke detectors with plastic bags, too.

What happened next? Genuinely curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone who is dismissive - "this is no big deal, it's legal now, college kids have always smoked pot" - are you aware that pot is much stronger, more addictive, and more dangerous today than the kind you used to grow in your dorm? You really ought to discuss this with your kids.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6312155/pdf/ms115_p0482.pdf

And that's even leaving aside the concern it might be laced with fentanyl.

It's not laced with fentanyl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. No, we are not Amish. Just shocked at the widespread use of cannabis on college campuses. We walked the Yale campus and saw no fewer than one dozen incidents of cannabis use out in the open. Students were actually consuming cannabis gummy bears in a pizza parlor. It was like whole campus was stoned on a late Saturday afternoon. It was snowing too. If it’s happening at Yale like this, I can only imagine what it’s like at other schools. The sheer ubiquitousness of it is what stunned me.

I’m with you OP. I just caught my HSer vaping weed and learned that what is being used today is many times stronger than the old stuff. It is highly addictive too. I feel like we’re rotting from the inside out.

Totally agree. I get so angry about what legalization has done to this generation. And I smoked weed in HS/college. But we were excited when we could rarely get it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. No, we are not Amish. Just shocked at the widespread use of cannabis on college campuses. We walked the Yale campus and saw no fewer than one dozen incidents of cannabis use out in the open. Students were actually consuming cannabis gummy bears in a pizza parlor. It was like whole campus was stoned on a late Saturday afternoon. It was snowing too. If it’s happening at Yale like this, I can only imagine what it’s like at other schools. The sheer ubiquitousness of it is what stunned me.

Did you go to college? It was everywhere back in the 90s but we kept the joints and bongs in the dorms. That’s the only difference. And yes, this was a prestigious school and the same at all of the other schools when I went to visit friends.

I volunteer for a non profit group dedicated to raising awareness of cannabis induced psychosis. The founder lost her son to suicide. Two days before his death, he told his mother that she was right about his pot use and that he destroyed his brain. Today's pot has THC concentrations nothing like those in the past. State legislatures legalize it because they want the tax revenue, but largely ignore the externality cost.

I don't come at this unbiased. From a young age I completed at a high level in track and was tested in competition. Pot was and is on the banned substance list, although I don't think it is performance enhancing. So my livelihood and means of getting an education were at stake. Many of my classmates used to decide me for not using pot - of course - they were by and large rich kids spending their parents money and not mentally tough - so it was easy to ignore. There were a minority of kids addicted to it with the associated amotivational aspects, but psychosis was not a problem with lower THC concentrations. Those in my the cannabis psychosis group were initially laughed at - but emergency rooms are reporting many more cases and the scientific literature is catching up. Doubters deny the problem claiming there is conflation of correlation with causation but the science is indeed evolving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. No, we are not Amish. Just shocked at the widespread use of cannabis on college campuses. We walked the Yale campus and saw no fewer than one dozen incidents of cannabis use out in the open. Students were actually consuming cannabis gummy bears in a pizza parlor. It was like whole campus was stoned on a late Saturday afternoon. It was snowing too. If it’s happening at Yale like this, I can only imagine what it’s like at other schools. The sheer ubiquitousness of it is what stunned me.

Did you go to college? It was everywhere back in the 90s but we kept the joints and bongs in the dorms. That’s the only difference. And yes, this was a prestigious school and the same at all of the other schools when I went to visit friends.

I volunteer for a non profit group dedicated to raising awareness of cannabis induced psychosis. The founder lost her son to suicide. Two days before his death, he told his mother that she was right about his pot use and that he destroyed his brain. Today's pot has THC concentrations nothing like those in the past. State legislatures legalize it because they want the tax revenue, but largely ignore the externality cost.

I don't come at this unbiased. From a young age I completed at a high level in track and was tested in competition. Pot was and is on the banned substance list, although I don't think it is performance enhancing. So my livelihood and means of getting an education were at stake. Many of my classmates used to decide me for not using pot - of course - they were by and large rich kids spending their parents money and not mentally tough - so it was easy to ignore. There were a minority of kids addicted to it with the associated amotivational aspects, but psychosis was not a problem with lower THC concentrations. Those in my the cannabis psychosis group were initially laughed at - but emergency rooms are reporting many more cases and the scientific literature is catching up. Doubters deny the problem claiming there is conflation of correlation with causation but the science is indeed evolving.

Is it a bigger problem than alcohol? The data on alcohol is pretty clear, and massively worse than cannabinoids.

Do you lobby for prohibition of alcohol?

Why the double standard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably less than when you were in college, to be honest. There’s more variety in entertainment these days.

I went to college in the late 70s. It was a serious, academic, now “Top 10” national university. The dorms didn’t reek of weed, but off campus apartments and every fraternity party did. It wasn’t in short supply, or hard to get - even though it was illegal.

[Anonymous]

My ds was recently caught on campus smoking at his school and has to pay a fine and other consequences. So, it happens but probably against the rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They may be legal but it really made the campus feel like Woodstock with everybody sort of zoned out.

Illegal on 99% of college campuses.

Mostly not illegal, just technically against the largely unenforced rules.
Same as with alcohol. The colleges just look the other way and try to keep usage in the dorms and away from the local police force. Who may not care anyway - since most states are legal for medical use, and kids who want to use weed regularly will pay $100 or whatever to get medical use cards.

[Anonymous]

I worry about the kids who smoke weed or take gummies nearly every day for four years of college and impact it has on their ability to connect with other people, academic performance, career ambitions, and long term happiness. The occasional users in college don’t worry me so much. The ones who do it to take the edge off, sleep better or calm anxiety daily worry me. Anecdotally, young college males seem most prone to becoming potheads and are quietly checking out. The higher levels of THC make it so addictive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. No, we are not Amish. Just shocked at the widespread use of cannabis on college campuses. We walked the Yale campus and saw no fewer than one dozen incidents of cannabis use out in the open. Students were actually consuming cannabis gummy bears in a pizza parlor. It was like whole campus was stoned on a late Saturday afternoon. It was snowing too. If it’s happening at Yale like this, I can only imagine what it’s like at other schools. The sheer ubiquitousness of it is what stunned me.

Did you go to college? It was everywhere back in the 90s but we kept the joints and bongs in the dorms. That’s the only difference. And yes, this was a prestigious school and the same at all of the other schools when I went to visit friends.

I volunteer for a non profit group dedicated to raising awareness of cannabis induced psychosis. The founder lost her son to suicide. Two days before his death, he told his mother that she was right about his pot use and that he destroyed his brain. Today's pot has THC concentrations nothing like those in the past. State legislatures legalize it because they want the tax revenue, but largely ignore the externality cost.

I don't come at this unbiased. From a young age I completed at a high level in track and was tested in competition. Pot was and is on the banned substance list, although I don't think it is performance enhancing. So my livelihood and means of getting an education were at stake. Many of my classmates used to decide me for not using pot - of course - they were by and large rich kids spending their parents money and not mentally tough - so it was easy to ignore. There were a minority of kids addicted to it with the associated amotivational aspects, but psychosis was not a problem with lower THC concentrations. Those in my the cannabis psychosis group were initially laughed at - but emergency rooms are reporting many more cases and the scientific literature is catching up. Doubters deny the problem claiming there is conflation of correlation with causation but the science is indeed evolving.

What is the name of the group? I think we parents need to act quickly to get some guardrails put on legalisation.

[Anonymous]

It isn't just on college campuses. You can smell weed on any block in Manhattan (in my opinion, noticeably moreso than in Boston or Chicago).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably less than when you were in college, to be honest. There’s more variety in entertainment these days.

I went to college in the late 70s. It was a serious, academic, now “Top 10” national university. The dorms didn’t reek of weed, but off campus apartments and every fraternity party did. It wasn’t in short supply, or hard to get - even though it was illegal.

Why are Boomers on here? Have your kids not already finished college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. No, we are not Amish. Just shocked at the widespread use of cannabis on college campuses. We walked the Yale campus and saw no fewer than one dozen incidents of cannabis use out in the open. Students were actually consuming cannabis gummy bears in a pizza parlor. It was like whole campus was stoned on a late Saturday afternoon. It was snowing too. If it’s happening at Yale like this, I can only imagine what it’s like at other schools. The sheer ubiquitousness of it is what stunned me.

I think privileged kids abuse drugs earlier and more widely.

I teach at a low income HS and this is definitely not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably less than when you were in college, to be honest. There’s more variety in entertainment these days.

I went to college in the late 70s. It was a serious, academic, now “Top 10” national university. The dorms didn’t reek of weed, but off campus apartments and every fraternity party did. It wasn’t in short supply, or hard to get - even though it was illegal.

Why are Boomers on here? Have your kids not already finished college?

Nope..Still.has one more year.