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Why do drugs lower grades

There are three possibilities for why certain drugs are associated with lowered grades. Aside from the generally accepted answer that drugs make people think irrationally and make them stupid, there are three other possibilities I've come up with:
  1. Drugs make people less motivated in school because they relax people. When they are so relaxed, they don't inhibit their ideas about how school is stupid, so they stop caring about something that they already knew was stupid.
    Getting bad grades directly or indirectly makes people sad, so they use drugs to feel better.
    People who realize that they care about school because they have been brainwashed also realize that they don't use drugs because they've brainwashed.
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Hmmm.... so basically drugs have no real effect on grades accept for the persons motivation for doing something they thought was completely retarded anyway.
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LittleFreak14 Wrote:Hmmm.... so basically drugs have no real effect on grades accept for the persons motivation for doing something they thought was completely retarded anyway.
I'm not sure as I've never used them, so I'm wondering what other people think.
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I do no drugs. But I get anything from Ds to perfect. I got a 95% on my last math test. The one before that I got about 60%. Maybe doing drugs would even out my results...

About "neurologically mature". This does not mean emotionally mature. For the last few years I have not been neurologically mature yet I consider myself a lot more mature than many adults. Neurologically mature is based on your actual brain structure. There are many idiot adults that are still neurologically mature.
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Hmm My friends do marajiuana and smoke and they get As and Bs. They tell me its all about control so you don't go crazy over the stuff.
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BigWolf Wrote:Thanks for explaining it more for those who didn't get it at first.
Don't thank me, thank my powers of deduction. I had only encountered the phrase "neurologically mature" in your posts yet a dose of logical thinking makes it clear what it means. I do that a lot. Unfortunately it seems this proactive thinking is rare.
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