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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?

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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.

I think privileged kids abuse drugs earlier and more widely.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.