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Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids smoking pot in college these days? I’m worried about my high stats kid but apparently everyone smokes now, not just the losers. Apparently it’s more popular than drinking. Is your high stat kid smoking pot?

It’s legalized. Isn’t this what you wanted?

Isn’t this what you voted for??

It's not legal under 21. But it's easy to get with an illegal fake ID.

This thread must be triggering the junkies lol they are so defensive

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Anonymous wrote:Op- you are weird. What does your kid being “high stats” have to do with smoking pot?

Maybe if you had a high stats kid you would understand.

Who says “my high stats kid” anyway?

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Anonymous wrote:All the "high stats" kids smoked pot in the 90s and I'm sure before and after.

Pot usage is up. The football coach at Boulder complained about the smell in the stadium. It’s no longer hidden, it’s something kids do daily and in the open.

Kids at Boulder have been smoking copious amounts of weed for decades,

Not publicly and you’re kidding yourself if you don’t realize that pot usage is up to dangerous levels.

Elaborate.

Is drinking daily healthy? Kids are “waking and baking”

This was happening in the 90s as was drinking daily.

If you think the use of weed today is anything like it was in the 90s, I have a bridge to sell you.

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 wrote:All the "high stats" kids smoked pot in the 90s and I'm sure before and after.

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 wrote:^ mental health issues are through the roof in HS-college age kids.

Is it because of drug usage or otjer factors (loneliness)?

^ mental health issues are through the roof in HS-college age kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Are we really clutching pearls at the notion that weed is being smoked on college campuses in the year of our lord 2025? I’m lshocked that some of you Gen X parents live such sheltered lives.

Today’s weed is highly linked to schizophrenia when smoked a lot prior to early 20s. Read the copious number of scientific studies on this.

I was a partier in college. I do not want my kids getting into it like that.

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Why is everyone going off their own anecdotal experiences and relying "I turned out fine" instead of reading current scientific and peer-reviewed data on effects and impact on brain development of pot-smoking in teens/early 20's? Do you all dislike actual information?

Yes today's weed if smoked regularly while brain is still developing - so under 25 - is linked with loss of intelligence/memory/focus and increased risk of schizophrenia. I'm happy all the old potheads from the 90s on this thread are alright, but I've shared the new research with my DD and would rather not be complacent due to the anec-data of some potheads on an anonymous board. There's plenty of actual scientific research to peruse if you're skeptical.

Bottom line: Pot is terrible to use regularly while the brain is still growing (i.e., high school and college). Reduce to occasional use or no use if you don't want to risk that.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:The “it’s so much stronger now” pearl clutching argument is bullshit. That just means you need to smoke less to get high. Win win.

I smoke every day in college and graduated summa. I then smoked regularly in law school and was magna. Everybody I knew smoked a lot of weed. You all sound like your grandmothers. Lighten up.

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.

You think research is propaganda? Such a pothead response lol

Anonymous wrote:The “it’s so much stronger now” pearl clutching argument is bullshit. That just means you need to smoke less to get high. Win win.

I smoke every day in college and graduated summa. I then smoked regularly in law school and was magna. Everybody I knew smoked a lot of weed. You all sound like your grandmothers. Lighten up.

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 wrote:Why are so many kids smoking pot in college these days? I’m worried about my high stats kid but apparently everyone smokes now, not just the losers. Apparently it’s more popular than drinking. Is your high stat kid smoking pot?

It’s legalized. Isn’t this what you wanted?

Isn’t this what you voted for??

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Op- you are weird. What does your kid being “high stats” have to do with smoking pot?

Maybe if you had a high stats kid you would understand.

Who says “my high stats kid” anyway?

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Anonymous wrote:Are we really clutching pearls at the notion that weed is being smoked on college campuses in the year of our lord 2025? I’m lshocked that some of you Gen X parents live such sheltered lives.

Today’s weed is highly linked to schizophrenia when smoked a lot prior to early 20s. Read the copious number of scientific studies on this.

I was a partier in college. I do not want my kids getting into it like that.

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Why is everyone going off their own anecdotal experiences and relying "I turned out fine" instead of reading current scientific and peer-reviewed data on effects and impact on brain development of pot-smoking in teens/early 20's? Do you all dislike actual information?

Yes today's weed if smoked regularly while brain is still developing - so under 25 - is linked with loss of intelligence/memory/focus and increased risk of schizophrenia. I'm happy all the old potheads from the 90s on this thread are alright, but I've shared the new research with my DD and would rather not be complacent due to the anec-data of some potheads on an anonymous board. There's plenty of actual scientific research to peruse if you're skeptical.

Bottom line: Pot is terrible to use regularly while the brain is still growing (i.e., high school and college). Reduce to occasional use or no use if you don't want to risk that.

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