[quote]pittbulll wrote:
[quote]Xav wrote:
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
NO complications and illegal ,I can’t understand the logic [/quote]
‘Research has shown that marijuana’s negative effects on attention, memory, and learning can last for days or weeks after the acute effects of the drug wear off. Consequently, someone who smokes marijuana daily may be functioning at a reduced intellectual level most or all of the time…Not surprisingly, evidence suggests that, compared with their nonsmoking peers, students who smoke marijuana tend to get lower grades and are more likely to drop out of high school. A meta-analysis of 48 relevant studiesÃ???Ã???Ã???Ã??Ã?¢??one of the most thorough performed to dateÃ???Ã???Ã???Ã??Ã?¢??found cannabis use to be associated consistently with reduced educational attainment (e.g., grades and chances of graduating)…several studies have linked workers’ marijuana smoking with increased absences, tardiness, accidents, workers’ compensation claims, and job turnover. For example, a study among postal workers found that employees who tested positive for marijuana on a pre-employment urine drug test had 55 percent more industrial accidents, 85 percent more injuries, and a 75-percent increase in absenteeism compared with those who tested negative for marijuana use.’
Source: How does marijuana use affect school, work, and social life? | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) [/quote]
Just one example
" Not surprisingly, evidence suggests that, compared with their nonsmoking peers, students who smoke marijuana tend to get lower grades and are more likely " says the article
Evidence (SUGGESTS) could it be that poor students were more likely to smoke MJ ? the article is full of bullshit like this .[/quote]
It’s a meta-analysis on a credible site with a shitload of references. You probably didn’t read the article. In what line of work are you to so quickly and confidently say this article is bullshit?
In case you didn’t know, in the health field evidence usually SUGGESTS (your “argument” for saying it’s a bullshit article) and doesn’t prove anything.
However I don’t see why this article would be an argument against legislation. Cannabis is correlated with certain negative effects & social factors. No shit. So is alcohol.
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I am truly blue collar , I have been reading articles like this for years . Articles that have an agenda and write the article to promote said agenda . True journalism would take scientific data and report it fairly , To work on all possibilities and distinguish the variables [/quote]
I went to school to learn how to read and understand studies like this…and you are right. I don’t think most lay-people understand how many grants are given to people who already have agendas and are using their “study” simply to promote said agenda.
A meta-analysis simply means some people you don’t know got together and looked at studies and made a bunch of assumptions from them…mind you, these assumptions can also be biased and usually are.
If I were to do an honest study on the effects of marijuana use, it would first require a society that wouldn’t crucify those being tested who did test positive.