Cannabis use on campus?

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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.

Yes please share. I have seen it take my daughter down and watched her BF have a psychotic break because of it.

[Anonymous]

Forget weed

Cocaine is everywhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forget weed

Cocaine is everywhere

No smell. The selfish people on this board would prefer that.

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Anonymous wrote:Many universities offer substance free dorm communities. My DD hates the smell of weed and is targeting schools that offer these safe spaces. Has anyone had a good experience in the substance free dorms?

I was really impressed with the Wellness LLC at UVM. It focused not just on substance free living but also had a yoga studio, fitness classes, stress reliving activities, and talks about nutrition. My kid ended up at another university but the wellness dorm at UVM was a real draw

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Anonymous wrote:Pot was basically legal at my alma mater in the 1980's.

Berkeley? I went there.

One thing about Berkeley, both now and today, is that the campus is huge and if you want weed, it's obviously there, but if you don't, there are tons of people who don't use it at all and there is actually no pressure. Same thing with drinking. Tons of non-drinkers, and what I like the people who partake and the people who don't do not judge each other.

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PP here. In fact, I felt zero pressure at Berkeley to drink or smoke, versus at my elite prep school, there was tons of pressure.

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Anonymous wrote:How are kids able to keep up their academics stoned/high, specially those doing it daily?

I know there is drinking but then you sober up and get ready for the next day. How do kids function in real life high?

My wife has a demanding, professional 50-60 hour a week job that she excels at and she's often high.

Has she been getting high frequently since College days, Or is this a "medical" thing? How is it living with someone who is frequently in their own la, la land? Is she a high functioning pothead? I know a few of those and they certainly do not act "normal" most of the time...

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Anonymous wrote:Forget weed

Cocaine is everywhere

Yes my ds tells me this.

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How are students keeping up with the grades?

We're just starting the College years but I cannot imagine paying thousands of dollars to have my kid attend classes high. I don't care for the occasional partying but it seems like weed on campus is becoming an everyday thing...

How are parents dealing with this?

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Anonymous wrote:How are students keeping up with the grades?

We're just starting the College years but I cannot imagine paying thousands of dollars to have my kid attend classes high. I don't care for the occasional partying but it seems like weed on campus is becoming an everyday thing...

How are parents dealing with this?

My DD unfortunately does partake but she does not really drink. She only does it when she’s going out. It’s not a sit in her room and smoke all day thing and she is getting A and B+ grades. I hate it, but one thing you’ll learn is that you have next to no control over what your kid is doing at college and at least, unlike many of her friends, she hasn’t been to the ER for a stomach pump yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Forget weed

Cocaine is everywhere

Yes my ds tells me this.

This is also true and scares me ALOT.

[Anonymous]

weed is more popular than alcohol on campuses these days. we did a tour of a campus and a dorm room had a flag with snoop dog on it hanging in their window. lol.

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Everyone smokes weed it’s like a beer for our generation . Here’s what I’d look out for from my incredibly honest kids:

Xanax - big now
Nitrous- whip -its- huge comeback stupid drug
Cocaine - really crazy common now
Mushrooms very common among the would not do anything other than weed crowd normally
Molly - big concern with fentanyl risk (and with Street Xanax too)

[Anonymous]

Cocaine and Xanax are everywhere and should scare the hell out of all of us