Whoa, dude, what a concept. For the Colson Center, I’m John Stonestreet
with The Point.
In order to curb drug tourism, a city in the Netherlands
banned foreigners from cannabis cafes.
This hit foreign students at the local University pretty hard. So much so
that researchers discovered that those who lost access to legal marijuana
started performing better in school.
In the “thank you, Captain Obvious” department, the Washington Post
reports that “the researchers attribute their results to the students who were
denied legal access to marijuana being less likely to use it and to suffer
cognitive impairments . . . as a result.”
As one researcher put it, this study is extremely valuable because it
looked at “similar people in a similar location,” that is Dutch students and
foreign students at the same university. This allowed researchers to “isolate
the effect of marijuana legalization.”
Sound methodology, sound conclusion: or to paraphrase a certain movie
character, “fat, stoned, and stupid is no way to go through life,
son.”
