Marijuana legalization is linked to significantly better recruitment for college basketball and worse outcomes for football teams, according to a new study. Researchers at Georgia College & State University and Kennesaw State University said there are numerous factors that affect recruitment trends in college athletic leagues, and so they tested the relationship between adult-use cannabis […]
Fancy that, when you stop arresting kids for having a plant in their pocket more of them tend to go to college and more of them will sign up for basketball scholarships
But terrifies people looking for football scholarships?
Yeah, that part is weird. Maybe it’s the brain damage talking? 🤷
That’s not what the report is suggesting. It’s suggesting that talented basketball players are more likely to go to a school in a state with legal weed.
That the feds really need to deschedule weed.
So what you’re saying is that, if given a choice between being barred/denied entry over pot use, people will instead just go to places that allow it?
Not sure I’m seeing the difference between your point and OPs comment.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t OP stand for the post-poster, a.k.a. me?
It stands for “Original Poster,” and from my understanding it’s situational. Like during a comment chain it would be the original comment. I could be wrong, but that’s how I’ve always interpreted it. /shrug
I mean, I read that cannabis actually causes brain damage in people who’re underage, so there is a reason to treat it like tobacco.
Absolutely fair, unrestricted access to cannabis isnt the answer but let’s not kid ourselves a cigarette is wildly worse than a joint from a legal dispensary. Plus right now if a kid gets caught with a cigarette the cop will at best haul them downtown to get picked up by a parent who they can use to shame the kid. Same kid with a joint can very realistically expect drug charges that stick with then into adulthood sapping the potential right out of their future
They should stop wasting money on sports and see that they finally get better at their actual job: educating young people.
Sports, teamwork and fitness play a large part in a young adult’s coming of age.
You dont need to dedicate 1/2 of your budget to sports as a coming of age activity.
Indeed. So much, that an inheritance left by a librarian to further the education of the youth was wasted on a new stadium instead of anything else.
Searched it up. It was 25% ($1 million), but I get your point now.
I fully agree. I think that athletic scholarships are still bad. A better way to handle this is to have an intramural mandate for able scholarship recipients. As it stands it is providing a level of pressure and commitment that hinders a youth’s education in exchange for a chance at a commitment that leaves little time or energy for rigorous study in a free bachelors program. And with the added benefits of only going to the most athletically gifted students, many of whom see it as a stepping stone to a non academic career and potentially with anywhere from a chance to a guarantee of brain damage depending on the sport.
College level intramural athletics are wonderful and should be pushed harder. Athletic scholarships and college sports as it is now are generally bad and I’d much rather we give those scholarships to the people we claim they benefit without making them play games instead of study.
So it’s discovered that black persons who are stereotypically more into basketball were overwhelmingly charged over such stupid things as smoking weed, and that denied them any participation in schools’ teams? How’s that surprising lol.
So …footballers need to smoke weed and become less aggressive?
I kid, but it would be funny if true.
Yeah. I’m think I’m awesome at shit too when I’m high.
What could be a possible explanation for the lower football turnout?
This is baseless bullshit but…maybe getting high makes people less likely to want to hurt other people? Which is kind of the whole thing with American football. Most of the game is “hit the opposing team as hard as you can”
Baseless speculation but in my experience the people more into joining a football team have been less the type to be pro weed. It’s definitely the more conservative of the major sports, especially after the CTE reveals.
What could be a possible explanation for the lower football turnout?
Weed.
