Marijuana Use on GPA among College Students
The road to graduations seems lengthy for some college students due to stress. That stress can lead them to indulge in risky behaviors like marijuana. In her article, “What Are the Effects of Marijuana Use on College Students”, Linda Ray states that “College students, already stressed with adult responsibilities and classes, often turn to pot for release, not fully realizing the effects of marijuana use.” Marijuana is a hallucinogen drug, so it main goal is to distort a person mind and it is also a gateway drug that leads to other dangerous drugs
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), marijuana, one of the most dangerous schedule one drugs may be the cause of poorer grades and later …show more content…
For this longitudinal study, eleven colleges in North Carolina and Virginia recruited 3146 college students. Researchers randomly selected participants into five marijuana trajectory groups: non-users, infrequent users, decreasing users, increasing users and frequent users. To explore the associations between marijuana trajectories and academic outcomes researchers uses a random-effects linear and logistic regression models. The results indicate that compared to non-users, decreasing and frequent users were more likely to drop out or delay graduation. Additionally, compared to non-users, all marijuana user groups reported lower GPAs, on average. Researchers concluded that students who use marijuana frequently at the beginning of the college career are at the highest risk for dropping out or delaying graduation.
Martinez, Roth, Johnson & Jones (2015) examine the association of college students’ frequency of cannabis use with GPA. They took into account the demographic and psychosocial indicators such as student identity, college involvement and family history of drug use. Researchers hypothesized that there would be a negative association between cannabis use and GPA. Results indicate that there is an increase cannabis use was robustly (observably) associated with lower grade point
The road to graduations seems lengthy for some college students due to stress. That stress can lead them to indulge in risky behaviors like marijuana. In her article, “What Are the Effects of Marijuana Use on College Students”, Linda Ray states that “College students, already stressed with adult responsibilities and classes, often turn to pot for release, not fully realizing the effects of marijuana use.” Marijuana is a hallucinogen drug, so it main goal is to distort a person mind and it is also a gateway drug that leads to other dangerous drugs
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), marijuana, one of the most dangerous schedule one drugs may be the cause of poorer grades and later …show more content…
For this longitudinal study, eleven colleges in North Carolina and Virginia recruited 3146 college students. Researchers randomly selected participants into five marijuana trajectory groups: non-users, infrequent users, decreasing users, increasing users and frequent users. To explore the associations between marijuana trajectories and academic outcomes researchers uses a random-effects linear and logistic regression models. The results indicate that compared to non-users, decreasing and frequent users were more likely to drop out or delay graduation. Additionally, compared to non-users, all marijuana user groups reported lower GPAs, on average. Researchers concluded that students who use marijuana frequently at the beginning of the college career are at the highest risk for dropping out or delaying graduation.
Martinez, Roth, Johnson & Jones (2015) examine the association of college students’ frequency of cannabis use with GPA. They took into account the demographic and psychosocial indicators such as student identity, college involvement and family history of drug use. Researchers hypothesized that there would be a negative association between cannabis use and GPA. Results indicate that there is an increase cannabis use was robustly (observably) associated with lower grade point