Heavy Marijuana Use Affects Learning, Social Skills
Tuesday August 5, 2008
A vast amount of scientific research has shown that heavy marijuana use negatively affects smokers' learning abilities and social skills, causing problems in their daily lives and compounding their existing problems. Research demonstrates clearly that someone who smokes marijuana every day may be functioning at a reduced intellectual level all of the time, even during brief periods of abstinence.More About Marijuana:
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I’ve used cannabis since I was at least 15. My high school gpa was low, like the majority of my urban graduating class. In jnr. college I pulled it up to a 3.0 and as I am now in my senior year at a UC school with a 4.1 and having smoked twice my weight in marijuana I can declare your findings moot and unsubstantiated. This article is based off assumptions, conjecture, and heresay. What the article does articulate is that the descripancies amongst marijuana users are all based on economic and social standings, which is the reason marijuana is illegal anyway - to arrest and subordinate minorities that are (as stated in these Buddy T articles) prone to possesion. It is propaganda. I’m living a life everyday with cannabis. I am not crippled by skyrocketing pharmeceutical prices, my medication grows on my windowsill. I am free of pain and with political activism I am free of harrassment and arrest from my community. I can make personal choices for myself concerning my health and principles. I want to address another point briefly; The rise in rehabilitation for marijuana abuse is in concert with the rise in arrests, judges offer ultimatiums, “Go to rehab, or go to jail” and when the “criminal” says rehab, the federal government touts it as a rise in the awaremenss of the dangers to marijuana by the general public…and you saps buy it hook, line, and sinker. There are people out there who smoke cannibus because they like it, it makes them happy and in a world where so much oppresion delinates unhappiness what’s wrong with taking a smile where you can find it. It’s not the stoners bankrupting companies, blowing up half the world and cutting off heads. No sir, thats the sober crowd.
Shame on you for making money off of propaganda about marijuana, sitting in a wheelchair 25 years the way people treat me affects me more then pot ever has, people that use legal meds fpr 25 years insted of pot for pain and spasms are in alot worse shape them me
you people are a joke for the most part, you just want to make a buck.
FOOLS
After 27 yrs. and a couple relapses, I can honestly say heavy pot smoking has definetly ruined my life. It resulted in 13 trips to the phyc. institutions, more trips to jails than I can count on my digits, and a trip into my own personal HELL!!!! It has left my soul bankrupt, depression rules my every thought, and now totally withdrawn from society. I had known people for many years, and watched their divorces, their suicides, and ultimatly thier minds, decay into vegatation. Mary Jane was my coping skill in life, my best freind, my way out of dealing with problems through life, hell it was also a way of life. This drug is one of the least harshest out there but with time and quantity does great damage. I remember hearing this kind of talk from others during my drug career and thought go bash pot to someone who will listen. Your’e not going to convince anyone but yourself that a little weed is going to ruin my life……God how I wish I had listened to those do goody two shoes that was only trying to save my life,soul,and mind…..Oh well live and learn, but damn what a price to pay to learn first hand that pot destroys people.. Rock on!!!!
i smoke marijuana every day for two hours strait(sessions in the backyard with friends) and even before bed. i have a 3.7 and on varsity track. so everyone saying it does all this bad ####. proof! it doesn’t you just need to have good self control like myself. i know how to use it:)