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Nobody believes weed will make you better at studying. Nobody.

travisjungroth 9y ago
Not directly, but many people take weed to relax or relieve anxiety and believe that those things are helpful for their studies.
- maratd 9y ago
  > many people take weed to relax or relieve anxiety and believe that those things are helpful for their studies They believe it's helpful to their life in general, which this study isn't measuring. Nobody in their right mind smokes weed to improve their GPA.
sevenfive 9y ago
Undergrad here. Plenty of people believe this.
paulcole 9y ago
You haven't spent much time in /r/trees. If there's a nutty belief about weed, more than a few somebodies there buy into it.
Govindae 9y ago
There can be no opinion so wrong that no one will hold on to it. https://www.quora.com/Does-smoking-weed-help-studying https://www.quora.com/Does-smoking-weed-help-studying
emmab 9y ago
But anti-weed will make you better at studying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimonabant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimonabant (nootropic but can cause suicide, CB1 inverse agonist)
bigspider421 9y ago
Nothing is absolute - I'm a medical user (with anxiety/ADHD/depression) and it's been a complete lifesaver for me, working where pharmaceuticals did not. I did not respond well to traditional stimulants (they only made me more anxious and racy) but medical cannabis is literally the only reason why I was able to function through my PhD program which I had completed two years ago at a top-tier U.S. institution. FWIW, I am very selective with my strains - only certain types actually help, and my dosage is mild enough to not have strong psychoactive effects (higher CBD-strains). Medical cannabis has truly had a significant impact on the trajectory of my life.
- wyclif 9y ago
  only certain types actually help Out of curiosity, what are those? I'm not an expert and I'm really only aware of the sativa/indica divide.
  - aaronbrethorst 9y ago
    From the GP: "higher CBD-strains" Here's a description of how CBD differs from THC: https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/whats-the-deal-with-these-high-cbd-strains https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/whats-the-deal-with... and I can attest to what it says. I don't like feeling high, but I do like feeling mellow. It's sort of like the difference between having a glass of wine and pounding shots to me.
- heurist 9y ago
  Same here. Anxiety + ADHD + depression made college extremely difficult for me. It wasn't until I began smoking regularly after college that I began to gain perspective and control over my life and surrounding environment. Had I started a little sooner college could have been a much more positive experience for me. Agreed that only certain strains have a positive impact, still trying to figure out what works for me but it's difficult when local options are so limited...
southphillyman 9y ago
Due to it's impact on short term memory I'm not sure it's the best thing for "studying"...but I knew of some med students who would smoke then write R code on datasets until the wee hours of the morning. I guess they were using it as an Adderall substitute of sorts
owebmaster 9y ago
I do, by personal experience.
prostoalex 9y ago
I believe what's currently known is that some amounts of THC lead to lower "default mode network" activity in the frontal core. The default mode network - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lsd-may-chip-away-at-the-brain-s-sense-of-self-network/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lsd-may-chip-away... - is associated with daily activities we think of as distracting - anxiety, worrying about the future, going over the past failures, incessant needs to check e-mail, Instagram or respond to a push notification. Subduing default mode network provides a pathway to concentration, if one's mind is set on it, like reading the book or going over the test question bank. But it could also be squandered on other activities unrelated to learning.

Not directly, but many people take weed to relax or relieve anxiety and believe that those things are helpful for their studies.

maratd 9y ago
> many people take weed to relax or relieve anxiety and believe that those things are helpful for their studies They believe it's helpful to their life in general, which this study isn't measuring. Nobody in their right mind smokes weed to improve their GPA.

sevenfive 9y ago

Undergrad here. Plenty of people believe this.

paulcole 9y ago

You haven't spent much time in /r/trees. If there's a nutty belief about weed, more than a few somebodies there buy into it.

Govindae 9y ago

There can be no opinion so wrong that no one will hold on to it. https://www.quora.com/Does-smoking-weed-help-studying https://www.quora.com/Does-smoking-weed-help-studying

emmab 9y ago

But anti-weed will make you better at studying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimonabant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimonabant (nootropic but can cause suicide, CB1 inverse agonist)

bigspider421 9y ago

Nothing is absolute - I'm a medical user (with anxiety/ADHD/depression) and it's been a complete lifesaver for me, working where pharmaceuticals did not. I did not respond well to traditional stimulants (they only made me more anxious and racy) but medical cannabis is literally the only reason why I was able to function through my PhD program which I had completed two years ago at a top-tier U.S. institution. FWIW, I am very selective with my strains - only certain types actually help, and my dosage is mild enough to not have strong psychoactive effects (higher CBD-strains). Medical cannabis has truly had a significant impact on the trajectory of my life.

wyclif 9y ago
only certain types actually help Out of curiosity, what are those? I'm not an expert and I'm really only aware of the sativa/indica divide.
- aaronbrethorst 9y ago
  From the GP: "higher CBD-strains" Here's a description of how CBD differs from THC: https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/whats-the-deal-with-these-high-cbd-strains https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/whats-the-deal-with... and I can attest to what it says. I don't like feeling high, but I do like feeling mellow. It's sort of like the difference between having a glass of wine and pounding shots to me.
heurist 9y ago
Same here. Anxiety + ADHD + depression made college extremely difficult for me. It wasn't until I began smoking regularly after college that I began to gain perspective and control over my life and surrounding environment. Had I started a little sooner college could have been a much more positive experience for me. Agreed that only certain strains have a positive impact, still trying to figure out what works for me but it's difficult when local options are so limited...

southphillyman 9y ago

Due to it's impact on short term memory I'm not sure it's the best thing for "studying"...but I knew of some med students who would smoke then write R code on datasets until the wee hours of the morning. I guess they were using it as an Adderall substitute of sorts

owebmaster 9y ago

I do, by personal experience.

prostoalex 9y ago

I believe what's currently known is that some amounts of THC lead to lower "default mode network" activity in the frontal core. The default mode network - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lsd-may-chip-away-at-the-brain-s-sense-of-self-network/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lsd-may-chip-away... - is associated with daily activities we think of as distracting - anxiety, worrying about the future, going over the past failures, incessant needs to check e-mail, Instagram or respond to a push notification. Subduing default mode network provides a pathway to concentration, if one's mind is set on it, like reading the book or going over the test question bank. But it could also be squandered on other activities unrelated to learning.