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This may be a bit odd, but I looked up this comment pretty easily because I was curious what it said to elicit such a strong response and I feel like you misrep

This may be a bit odd, but I looked up this comment pretty easily because I was curious what it said to elicit such a strong response and I feel like you misrepresent it here. The comment is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/5bm3kp/colorado_cannabis_retailers_dont_sell_to_minors/d9pvi4m/ https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/5bm3kp/colorado_ca... It isn't your most down-voted comment. It has -3 and you have about 10 other comments with lower scores. In the comment you solely mention the smell of kids. This doesn't mean that they are using cannabis at all. This could easily be similar to kids whose parents smoke cigarettes. Yes second hand smoke is bad for the kids over time, but that doesn't make them stoned by any means. I don't disagree with you though that there are dogmatists around cannabis. There definitely are and they don't help anything.

panzagl 10y ago
Hah, I forgot about baiting the French in that WWII thread... My wife works at a low socio-economic status school. They're not using directly, no they're not stoned to the 'whoa, dude' level, it's more of a general 'grogginess' that kind of goes away late in the morning. It's definitely 'anec-data' of the finest sort, but it's something the teachers notice and comment on. What I don't understand is why no one ever thinks that suddenly 'legalizing' a drug that produces a docile population is somehow more ominous than the previous gov't action to suppress it.
- Broken_Hippo 10y ago
  How does she differentiate between those kids and the ones that simply have a biological clock mis-matched with school? Do they all definitely smell of the smoke? I ask mostly because I could have been that kid. I'm that adult. I smoke now, but my parents didn't and I didn't start while I was in school. My mother fought to get me awake for years: I wouldn't even wake up early for Santa Clause presents. Seriously, I chose to sleep and wait to open them until after we went to Grandma's house.
  - panzagl 10y ago
    Believe me, there are plenty of issues that lead to these kids being groggy- but the faculty also do their best to keep up on who's Mom has a new boyfriend, who's living out of their car, who shows up at school at 6:30 cause that's when the parents leave for work. It's a combination of intrusive, frustrating, and necessary to make sense of what's going on in their lives and how that gets brought into school. When we talk legalization on these sites it's usually from a middle class view of harmless recreation, but people who are irresponsible about other things aren't likely to be fastidious in their smoking habits either.
  - simplyluke 10y ago
    Same boat here. My mom had me start drinking coffee in like the 5th or 6th grade because I told her I felt physically ill for the first 3 hours of school every day.

panzagl 10y ago

Hah, I forgot about baiting the French in that WWII thread... My wife works at a low socio-economic status school. They're not using directly, no they're not stoned to the 'whoa, dude' level, it's more of a general 'grogginess' that kind of goes away late in the morning. It's definitely 'anec-data' of the finest sort, but it's something the teachers notice and comment on. What I don't understand is why no one ever thinks that suddenly 'legalizing' a drug that produces a docile population is somehow more ominous than the previous gov't action to suppress it.

Broken_Hippo 10y ago
How does she differentiate between those kids and the ones that simply have a biological clock mis-matched with school? Do they all definitely smell of the smoke? I ask mostly because I could have been that kid. I'm that adult. I smoke now, but my parents didn't and I didn't start while I was in school. My mother fought to get me awake for years: I wouldn't even wake up early for Santa Clause presents. Seriously, I chose to sleep and wait to open them until after we went to Grandma's house.
- panzagl 10y ago
  Believe me, there are plenty of issues that lead to these kids being groggy- but the faculty also do their best to keep up on who's Mom has a new boyfriend, who's living out of their car, who shows up at school at 6:30 cause that's when the parents leave for work. It's a combination of intrusive, frustrating, and necessary to make sense of what's going on in their lives and how that gets brought into school. When we talk legalization on these sites it's usually from a middle class view of harmless recreation, but people who are irresponsible about other things aren't likely to be fastidious in their smoking habits either.
- simplyluke 10y ago
  Same boat here. My mom had me start drinking coffee in like the 5th or 6th grade because I told her I felt physically ill for the first 3 hours of school every day.