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In reply to the discussion: Pot correlated with making teens less likely to graduate college/HS, more likely to kill selves. [View all]Trillo
(9,154 posts)50. Going to High School is correlated to a lot of negative outcomes.
http://www.academia.edu/5045803/Associations_among_bullying_cyberbullying_and_suicide_in_high_school_students
No drugs are necessary in that population for suicide to occur, all it takes is other mean kids. Don't be gay! Suicide rate goes way up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_suicide_in_the_United_States
http://learninfreedom.org/suicide.html
It appears from looking at all of this briefly, that when you force young people to go to school, a ripple of negative psychological effects occurs.
Edited to add: It's probably a source of some intrigue that a system which rewards a very small percentage of the compulsory school population with great academic achievement in their later years, that those folks would have difficulty understanding that others kill themselves in the same pressure cooker system. I'm wondering if we're seeing "A tyranny of the minority."
No drugs are necessary in that population for suicide to occur, all it takes is other mean kids. Don't be gay! Suicide rate goes way up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_suicide_in_the_United_States
http://learninfreedom.org/suicide.html
The maximum age of compulsory school attendance is now lower in Japan than in the United States. (The compulsory school attendance age range was longer in Japan than in the United States during the prewar years, the years when the Japanese youth suicide rate was higher than that in the United States.)
It appears from looking at all of this briefly, that when you force young people to go to school, a ripple of negative psychological effects occurs.
Edited to add: It's probably a source of some intrigue that a system which rewards a very small percentage of the compulsory school population with great academic achievement in their later years, that those folks would have difficulty understanding that others kill themselves in the same pressure cooker system. I'm wondering if we're seeing "A tyranny of the minority."
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Pot correlated with making teens less likely to graduate college/HS, more likely to kill selves. [View all]
linuxman
Sep 2014
OP
Are the 60% who don't complete HS the Same 60% who don't graduate from College?
Vincardog
Sep 2014
#2
"This study was brought to you by the good folks at Anheiser Busch and Philip Morris"
LordGlenconner
Sep 2014
#3
People who decide to engage in an illegal activity more likely to have other problems
jberryhill
Sep 2014
#10
This study was from Australia and New Zealand, but I imagine some of the correlations are similar...
hunter
Sep 2014
#17
"If you get caught with drugs, you're not able to go to college" - damage by design.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2014
#35
i'm guessing it's probably the other way around, those less likely to graduate or have suicidal
JI7
Sep 2014
#24
Well, it's hard to complete high school or attend college when you're in prison for a few years.
krispos42
Sep 2014
#43