Gone Are The Bong Days

[Oz]

University life and dope smoking are not synonymous, according to research done by fourth-year health and science students at the University of WA.

 

Luke van Zeller, a health promotion student at UWA, said students had often been labelled "dope smokers" because of the relaxed atmosphere at university and the drug-related history of the '70s protest movement.

 

But he said they had disproved the theory, showing only 2.1% of students regularly smoked cannabis and 56.8% had never taken any drugs.

 

Luke said: "These are very encouraging results.

 

"We intend to use these results to encourage students not to start taking drugs because they feel a need to fit in."

 

In 2001, the National Drug Household Survey showed that 20% of 14 to 29-year-olds smoked cannabis once a week.

 

The health science students found younger students just out of school ran a higher risk of using drugs because they were either curious, under peer pressure or felt they had "escaped the boundaries" associated with living at home.

 

The students hope to highlight that smoking cannabis is not "cool" and in fact has serious long-term effects, including depression and mental illness.

 

The information sessions on cannabis use were held as a part of Health Week at UWA, which ended on Friday, May 14.

 

By POST

Date: 15/05/04

Source: POST Newspapers

Copyright: 1999 - 2002 Post Newspapers Pty Ltd

[livebytheleaf]

[LoveMeBucket]

hahahahahaha!!

 

of course its only 2% at UWA (home of the snobby rich kids)

 

go to one of the other uni's & i think it would be a bit different ::

 

[Guest niall]

Not to mention the fact that a significant number of WA students are upfront-paying International students from Asia... What is the % of local students, those who have grown up in the WA/Australian primary and secondary school systems, those who actually live here and don't come from an extremely harsh prohibitionist country or are afraid of mentioning their drug use (or using here in Australia) for fear of bringing shame to their family, being deported, or losing their University place... not to mention the figures for variation and error inherent in the survey, how accurate are self-reporting drug use surveys? What was the actual question asked....?

[LoveMeBucket]

hahaha hit the nail on the head there niall ::

 

2% my ass

 

[Guest pilk]

 

 

[pixel]

lmao@Niall

 

It makes me angry when the anti weed fools crap on about mental illness and marijuana. If you do some research, you'll find that there is LITTLE evidence to support this, and what little evidence there is, is really flimsy and backed up by alot of hearsay, rather than fact. :angry:

[jonbrown]

yep i agree, unless you have schizophrenia to start with or something.

 

I'm glad the bong days aren't really gone, the thread title had me worried ! ::