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Smoking Pot Interferes With Math Skills, Study Finds
NPR ^ | June 09, 2015 | Ari Shapiro

Posted on 06/09/2015 4:42:54 AM PDT by Drango

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http://www.npr.org/2015/06/09/413069509/smoking-pot-interferes-with-math-skills-study-found


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cannabis; dude; marijuana; pot; wod
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To: Drango
As a Geometry teacher, it was always fun to watch the stoners tackle the wonder of two-column proofs. Trig identities...what can I say?

There were a few exceptions over the years, whose minds were incredibly logical when self-medicated.

21 posted on 06/09/2015 5:39:50 AM PDT by grania
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To: Drango

One of N reasons ( where N is a large number) why Dorkbama is the least intelligent man in the multiverse.


22 posted on 06/09/2015 5:43:30 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Morpheus2009

It’s not that pot saps your motivation.

It’s just that when you’re stoned you realize it’s just not worth the freakin’ effort.


23 posted on 06/09/2015 5:43:40 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: MulberryDraw

I’ll relate this personal story. In the late 70’s, I was in the AF and in civil engineering. We were sent out to housing to clear out a huge water drainage pit (80 ft in diameter, and thirty ft deep)...referred to as a ‘French drain’. In those days, we had a fair number of guys who smoked pot once a week, and a few guys who smoked daily (before even coming to work). “Wolf” was such a guy who smoked daily.

As break came up one morning and we were wrapping up our break....getting back into the crane to clear the pit....some red-headed seven-year old kid who’d been watching us ran up. “Hey Mister, don’t crank it yet....your friend fell into the pit”. Sure enough.....we walked over and there was “Wolf” laying there in the pit. We would have killed the kid if we’d lowered the crane into it.

We get “Wolf” out and he’s all dazed but OK. We ask what the problem was and he’d focused-out (just an hour after he’d smoked pot)....and got dizzy....falling in. After this episode...the three of us non-potheads decided that was the last time that “Wolf” came with us for this particular job. We gave the boss some fake reason and got “Wolf” off the team.

What bothers me....even to this day...is that here I am....clear-headed....and I might accidentally kill some dope who was all pumped up on weed who wasn’t paying attention. If they’d just smoke their pot in the evening hours....I wouldn’t much care. But they are stupid enough to smoke right before coming to work. What does that say?


24 posted on 06/09/2015 5:43:50 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Drango

lol


25 posted on 06/09/2015 6:49:45 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: iowamark

Obama: You can save 3000 percent on your health insurance with ACA.


26 posted on 06/09/2015 7:02:49 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: iowamark

Obama: My new mileage rules will save you $3000 per year on gas.


27 posted on 06/09/2015 7:04:09 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Drango

Hopefully, we didn’t spend a lot of money on this study.


28 posted on 06/09/2015 7:24:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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To: Drango

Prohibitionists never get their facts straight. Mental disorder maybe.


29 posted on 06/09/2015 7:31:59 AM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Drango

They needed a study for that? LOL!


30 posted on 06/09/2015 7:54:40 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Drango

So? If you’re going to do math, lay off the pot. Drink instead. ;-D

(This is old news, btw: http://newsroom.iza.org/en/2015/03/18/high-achievers-students-banned-from-cannabis-shops-perform-better-at-university/)


31 posted on 06/09/2015 7:56:14 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: Drango

This is interesting for other reasons.

People can be subdivided into two unequal groups. One group can handle *abstracts*, representations of reality much better than the other group.

Abstracts include mathematics, algebra and geometry, musical notation, visual arts, and many other representations of reality.


32 posted on 06/09/2015 8:31:01 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don’t.


33 posted on 06/09/2015 10:48:15 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: iowamark

34 posted on 06/09/2015 2:25:08 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Which drink? Caffeine or alcohol?


35 posted on 06/09/2015 3:46:29 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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