University students’ grades plunge when cannabis is legalised, studies find
- Studies have found that legalising cannabis leads to students failing exams
- Legalisation was said to lead to an increase in the assignment of D and F grades
- Researchers found ‘a much stronger effect on grades of men than women’
By STEPHEN ADAMS FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY UPDATED: 01:07 AEDT, 4 February 2019
Legalising cannabis leads to more university students flunking their exams.
Striking evidence that legalising the drug negatively affects undergraduates’ behaviour and makes weaker students particularly likely to fall behind is provided by three new studies.
In America, researchers found that students’ grades at Washington Western University fell after Washington became the first US state to legalise the recreational use of marijuana in 2012.
Legalisation ‘leads to an increased incidence in the assignment of D and F grades’, authors Adam Wright and John Krieg wrote in the journal Economic Inquiry. ‘Specifically, we estimate that Ds and Fs are given about seven per cent more frequently after legalisation.’
Legalising cannabis leads to more university students flunking their exams, three new studies have found (stock image)
They also found ‘a much stronger [negative] effect on grades of men than women’ — consistent with evidence that young American men are twice as likely to smoke cannabis as young American women.
A second US study discovered that even in states where only medicinal cannabis use has been legalised, students were more likely to slacken off, with average study time around a fifth lower than in states with a blanket ban.
‘College students in medical marijuana law states spend approximately 20 per cent less time on education-related activities and 20 per cent more time on leisure activities than their counterparts in non-medical marijuana law states,’ the research team reported.
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