I agree that it’s completely possible to… to… ummmmm…
…are you gonna finish that pizza, dude?
from Tarentino’s Jackie Brown:
(Bridget Fonda’s character): (offering joint) Here, wanna hit?
(Deniro’s character): No way. That stuff robs you of your ambitions.
(BF char): Not if your ambition is to lay around and watch TV all day.
(recklessly paraphrased from memory, but damned funny)
Just check the alumni rolls for cum laude or higher graduates in the late 60’s.
And all that talk about a shortened attention span is
from belladonna:
"I don’t know how close this is skirting the “don’t endorse legal stuff” rule, but we’ll see I guess…"
…umm… don’t you mean ILLEGAL stuff? What ‘choo been smokin’ lately?
and that username…
Carl Sagan did all right, I guess.
i know people with 1st class degrees, PhDs, MSc, MA, MD, who smoke on a regular basis.
and some of them are responsible parents too [shock horror!]
can you do well if you drink heavily 3 or 4 times a week…now that i don’t know.
once or twice seems to be just dandy though.
Hoo boy, I know tons at Ivy’s and top schools all over the country. I also know people who booze heavily and pull a 4.0, and plenty who won’t touch either and do very well. Its all about the person.
Really? Is there any other propaganda to which you adhere?
Now that was funny.
Just about all my friends smoke, and they seem to span the same spectrum of grades as their sober counterparts.
The most competent and together people I’ve known were pot heads.
JoeyHemlock, how dare you imply that Ellen Feiss is a pothead?
In theory, communism works. IN THEORY.
Heck, I had the highest GPA of my life the semester my German roommate and I spent all of our spare time drinking and smoking! We stayed pretty much hammered all the time. We’d get out of class in the afternoon, do our homework, and then get plastered and stoned, collapse into bed at about three or four in the morning, only to drag ourselves out of bed at 7 AM so we could stumble off to our 8 o’clock classes. The reason I did so well was because I couldn’t do any critical thinking. I’d half-sleep my way through class, paying only the barest attention to the shit the professor was saying, and then regurgitate it back in a paper that night without ever thinking about what the professor meant by what he/she said. It was only when he got a girlfriend and quit hanging out with me (I was 18/19 at the time and he was 30ish.) that I sobered up and realized that most of my professors were idiots who knew less about the subject matter than I did. My GPA took a nosedive at that point. (Mainly because my professors’ got ticked at me for pointing out some of the fallacies in what they were saying.)
I smoke pot constantly. I really should cut down, because inhaling smoke is never good for one’s health, but for now, well, it’s pretty much 4:20, 24/7.
When I first started smoking in high school, I watched my grades plummet, though that may also have had to do with the fact that I worked until 11 PM every weeknight and could never go to sleep until I’d watched the back-to-back episodes of Wings on USA after returning from work.
Now I go to a technical college for computer networking. If they offered a similar course at any local university, I would have jumped on it, but they don’t. Funny, too, because there’s more than enough to know about networking to fill up four years and then some. Since I started school two years ago, I’ve smoked all the pot I could get my hands on. The weed here is mostly Mexican crap, so I usually end up smoking one to two ounces a week. I know, I know. That’s a lot. You don’t have to tell me. I’m the one who has to clean the bong every freakin’ day.
Anyway, since starting school, I’ve gotten all A’s except for one B (idiot teacher that gave everyone B’s for no apparent reason) in my computer classes. For my other classes, my grades depended on how much interest I had in the class, a crappy habit that I’ve carried since long before I started smoking pot. Still, even with that lack of interest, my English teacher called me her most well-rounded student after having a few conversations with me about literature and other subjects.
My computer teachers routinely come to me with questions they can’t answer. Often, they ask me to explain difficult concepts to the rest of the class. I’m considered a total nerd by just about everyone. Few of the students and none of the teachers know I smoke pot, even when I’m sitting in their classes mere minutes after smoking. It almost feels like I’m living a double-life sometimes.
I also entered a state competition for networking and got a silver medal. Yes, I was stoned during the competition.
Wow, that’s a lot of horn tooting. Sorry about that, but I guess I at least provided another affirmative answer to the OP’s question. Yes, stoned people can do just fine in school. Not every stoned person to be sure, but many of us.
I agree with the fact that not every stoned person can do well in school… but there are some of us who can. I generally keep it to my downtime (after work/school when I have nowhere else to be and can just chill) Once I did go to social stoned… that was a kinda mistake because I get giggly sometimes, and we have a student teacher lately who teaches our class as part of his practicum. He goofs off half the time (though we learn much better with him it seems) and makes lots of smart alecky comments to which we all reply. He was teaching that day and I was nearly in tears from laughing so hard all class.
But other then that, yeah I do great. I have almost a 90 in Bio and an 80 in Social.
But you have to know when and when not to smoke up. Some people just can’t handle learning and being stoned… some people it just makes everything clearer (Things click better in my mind sometimes. I do my homework stoned usually.)
Heh… not really advocating breaking laws just saying that yeah it is possible to keep up good grades and smoke.
Are you asking for permission?
That is totally up to you.
There is more than just smoking pot…it really depends on the group.
Yes, in college I smoked a lot and my grades didn’t suffer…and I see a whole lot of people agree with me.
However, if you are in high school or godforbid younger, then I would have to say chill.
By the time a lot of people above, and myself, were in college and toking away, we already had our priorites, our study habits and our goals set. That makes a big difference.
Plus, I knew guys in college who just seemed to coast through perfect grade points doing little or nothing…drove me crazy. But not everybody is so gifted. It really depends on you.
::cringe::
I saw that as soon as it went through, of course. I was just hoping everyone else would be too stoned to notice… 
I don’t think a thread made up of people admitting to breaking the law is a very good idea, considering the current political climate. If this had had been possible without personal(and I’m sure totally made up ;)) stories of law breaking, I might have allowed it to continue.
Lockdown.