Nur ein- oder zweimal im Monat Marihuana zu konsumieren, ist bei Teenagern mit schlechteren schulischen Leistungen und emotionalem Stress verbunden. Je häufiger sie Cannabis konsumierten, desto wahrscheinlicher war es, dass sie über emotionalen Stress und andere soziale und akademische Probleme berichteten
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/teens-any-cannabis-use-may-have-impact-emotional-health-academic-performance
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>The new study analyzed data from a nationally representative survey of over 160,000 U.S. 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students conducted from 2018 to 2022. Over one-quarter of the respondents reported cannabis use; less than 20% reported monthly or less frequent use; and much smaller percentages said they used cannabis weekly or almost every day.
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>In the study, adolescents who used cannabis once or twice a month reported higher rates of depression-like symptoms, anxiety, and impulsive behavior than those who abstained. Near-daily users were almost four times as likely to have poor grades and were frequently disengaged from school activities. These associations were even stronger for younger cannabis users.
[Cannabis Use Among US Adolescents | Pediatrics | American Academy of Pediatrics](https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/doi/10.1542/peds.2024-070509/205921/Cannabis-Use-Among-US-Adolescents?redirectedFrom=fulltext?autologincheck=redirected)
It can also be that stressed people are more likely to smoke weed.
Correlation not causation.
And what if people with bad performance and a stressed life are more prone to weed usage?
These teens need to rap with cool art teacher Geoffrey Jellineck „Yeah, I used to get stoned. A few years back, I was pretty down. I had just started this job, and my plugs weren’t taking, my parents were brutally murdered, and I was fat. So I turned to pot hoping it would solve all my problems. But you know something? The only thing it fixed was my life.“
Weed seemed to help me overcome my anxiety and crippling, undiagnosed ADHD in college. Graduated over employed and with honors.
I hate these reefer madness blanket statements.
I think we’ve seen enough to know that for some it helps anxiety and assists daily function and for some it causes anxiety and hurts daily function. It really helps mental health for some and can trigger psychosis in some. For some it is a hobby and for some it becomes a dependence. You don’t know which it is until you try it.
I used marijuana frequently as a teen because I was abused at home. I didn’t read the study, but it sounds like correlation.
„Columbia University says…..“. Sorry that is an institution wholly subservient to don trump. None of their conclusions are trustworthy and all their work should be presumed to be done to „Trump’s standards“ which is nothing.
Stoners will say ANYTHING but admit they’re addicted
Purely anecdotal, but the only year in high-school that I got straight A’s was the year I was smoking weed regularly. Had undiagnosed ADHD and it helped me to hyperfocus on my work.
“The new study analyzed data from a nationally representative survey of over 160,000 U.S. 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students conducted from 2018 to 2022”
So data analysis is a “study”. Guessing it was just a paper handed out in classes for students to answer.
I know when I was in school, me and friends would lie because that kind of information could be used to get us in trouble.
What I’m curious about is why is there no 9th and 11th grade data? Did it adversely affect the way they wanted the numbers to be?
But what does it tell us about their emotional distress?
Straight A student all through every level of school. Smoke weed daily. I’m surrounded by good people(Family and Friends) and I do my best every day to be a good father to my kids. Weed has been a constant in my life and I’m pretty successful professionally as well, sit in the top 1% tax bracket. The only thing I can say it gets me on is I can’t stop eating Milk and Cookies. I just can’t stop.
I love when someone posts something about cannabis because the normally level-headed people will say that this study must be flawed because in their experience it isn’t true. It’s hilarious how they’ll try and defend one thing.
It’s definitely bad to smoke and drink before your brain fully develops. It’s also good to have fun while you are still a kid. There’s a happy medium between abuse and living.
If the kid can get ahold of and regularly smoke weed, they’ve probably got lackluster parenting, which is also a reason one might have bad school performance and emotional instability.
Well from my experience, in high school the weed smoking kids were more social than those that didnt (me). Social kids would rather hang out than study. Hard to focus while high too, as a working adult it was the closer to the night, would mess up my day if I started earlier.
If it wasnt for weed I would have never made it through engineering plus the last 26 years in the field
This is not a surprise to me. I feel so much more stable not using any recreational substances (including alcohol or nicotine). I wish I never did.
I would say a greater proportion of people who are dead serious about maintaining good academic performance will not risk such performance doing drugs, refraining from participating in behaviors linked to drug use, from cultures that stigmatize drug use.
The exact opposite effect also into play. People less worried about grades will have less to lose doing drugs.
Or stressed when you have to hide it and worry about being treated less then because of it.
Everyone in here is bending over backwards trying to spin this. Literally read the study
Right, the pot led to emotional distress the emotional distress couldn’t possibly have led to pot
From the studies I’ve seen, cannabinoids disrupt the circuitry in the brain that modulates habit-forming and the behaviors/impressions that get logged into „muscle memory“.
This makes sense: if you’re stressed and stuck in a bad habit rut, occasional weed use can bust you out of those patterns or blunt the effects of trauma on the body. However, if you use it too frequently, it can disrupt your ability to form new good habits to replace the bad ones. And of course all of this depends on what neurochemistry you’ve got to work with.
Woah you mean people who would typically be extremely stressed already seem to still be stressed even after smoking pot? THANK YOU SCIENCE
Didn’t seem to work that way for me. I hot high before my regents and got a 96. I also smoked multiple times a week and did fine in school.
Teenage brains aren’t fully developed so of course this will happen, we’ve known this for years so I don’t know why they’re acting like this is something „new“.
Isn’t there also a fairly significant difference between the type of person who seeks out weed in school and the one who doesn’t?
Call me a goody two-shoes if you like, but it never even crossed my mind to try and find weed when I was going to school. And it sure as hell wasn’t because I had no stress, no worries. It was quite simply that it was illegal, that it was „drugs“, and so I avoided it. Stayed focused on my studies instead and graduated at the top of my class.
I’ve eased these restrictions on myself now that I’m through with school, but at the time, no way I was ever going to pursue it.
I’m curious which way this correlation goes.
There’s a possibility that cannabis causes these problems like the title implies.
There’s also a strong possibility that those who experience these problems are a lot more likely to self medicate, using cannabis because it’s both the most accessible, acceptable, and has the least downsides.
Marijuana did the exact opposite for me in school
Turns out that the child’s developing brain doesnt do well when bombarded with mind altering drugs.
shocked
And to the low socioeconomic and broken home people, yes that can and is a factor.. But i know MANY people growing up from great homes, who started casually using drugs or alcohol and saw huge declines in their academic performance.
We already know some of the effects of these substances on the brain. ANYONE pretending that cannabis is harm free is fooling themselves and doing a disservice to others. It has many benefits, but like nearly everything, there are ALWAYS negatives to consider
I’m six weeks out from quitting weed after smoking every day for most of my adult life and genuinely feel like a superhero with my short term memory coming back.
In my experience of being an adult stoner for decades, it does the same for adults too. They’re just less honest about it.
We’re never getting legal weed are we?
I passed school and many a many joint at the same time.
Hmmm And how about neuroatypicals?
not the other way round?
>The more likely they are to report emotional distress and other social and academic problems the more frequently they will start using marijuana.
I always did better, but i mostly did bad because of anxiety. I think this might be a more complicated medical thing than whats in the study. I wont deny it tho. Its pretty well documented it changes your brain chemistry, especially while still developing up to age 25.
Did they control for stress triggering marijuana use or people turning to substances generally in trying times? it seems to me they’ve measured two events that happen together without considering the sequencing of them.
As someone who smoked weed in high school and still attribute a lot of my mental growth to it, I don’t think teenagers should be smoking weed. It’s so much stronger today and it puts you in proximity of other riskier behaviors and outcomes.
Outside of smoking hot vapor I think it’s harmless. The externalities like spending all day looking for some, paying for it, increased police run in probability, and potentially derailing your focus are the real issues.
Im currently researching teen marijuana use and its association with early life stress and psychosis. As others have pointed out and previous research has indicated, kids experiencing stressors (mental illness, bad home life, bullying, etc) are more likely to use marijuana, and more likely to start using it at a younger age, very similar to other substances such as alcohol.
While I’m not saying marijuana use cant also cause problems, especially with kids using it, this is very clearly a correlation, not a causative study.
Yeah sure, so the high acheviers are all mentally so healthy that they don’t ever report, thats for anything. Ask me, the pot smokers simply told the truth. Reads like an ’80’s war on Drugs‘ stat.