College Students May Do Better With Weed

The key issue is not if, but how college students decide to consume cannabis.

Marijuana use among college students has taken another spike upward, according to a new survey, but these students’ grades may have likewise climbed.

“As part of Inhale Labs’ Cannabis in College study, a series of surveys shows that daily or near-daily marijuana use among college students is accelerating faster than ever before, reaching 10.1% in 2016, up from 5.9% just two years ago,” Mike Hunter, co-Founder and CEO at InhaleLabs.com, told TheLeafOnline. “The survey also found that the average GPA of daily marijuana users in college was 3.2, higher than the overall national average of 3.1.”

Not only daily use has increased, other casual use patterns are increasing among students as well. One possible explanation is that as students shift to cannabis and away from alcohol, they are less encumbered by hangovers...

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