<p>is it true that a lot of students in california do drugs? i'm live in ohio and am applying to calpoly. i will be very disappointed if it's just a bunch of druggies, drinking is fine, but not drugs.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that happens everywhere, yet they probably can afford to get more.</p>
<p>Pretty good amount of drugs and less drinking than on the eastern colleges. mainly because there is more o do outside so people dont stay in and drink away the winters.</p>
<p>Cal Poly is a great school. You will find that there is a part of the student body that love to party, and a large number that don't. If you don't want druggie friends, first of all, don't go to college, or second of all, just become friends with those that aren't. There's not a shortage.</p>
<p>ok, well the problem is that i love to party. like, i don't mind drinking and stuff... people do it here all the time, but i have never been offered drugs and i heard it's very popular in california. are there people in california that like to drink and party but don't do drugs?</p>
<p>Which Cal Poly? Pomona or SLO?</p>
<p>lol. Yes, there are people in CA who don't do drugs @ parties. I'm a CP student and haven't done any drugs but drink a bit on the weekends. I think that's pretty much representative of the student body.</p>
<p>patientlywaiting- you definitely won't have a problem. All of my friends and I love to party and drink, but don't do drugs. Some have tried them before, but that's the extent of it. You'll be fine.</p>
<p>patientlywaiting - what do you mean by drugs? weed or coke? i dont believe that you have never been exposed to "drugs" if you drink. at pretty much every high school party, theres gonna be kids getting high somewhere, even if theres 6 kegs. do you mean like coke and heroin? i dont think it depends on the state if you're looking for those</p>
<p>^^^ I agree. Every party I have ever been to that had drinking had weed (I personally don't drink, but i do enjoy the herb.) and dont you know that alcohol is a drug? it kills brain cells, unlike marijuana, so i don't really know what you mean. and also, people don't just walk around saying "want to try some coke/heroin/meth" or something. and even if they did, they wouldn't be surprised when you say "no" to hard drugs. please get this "alcohol is not a drug" out of your mind. alcohol is indeed a drug, and is generally classified as a hard drug along with coke and heroin. i'm not saying don't drink, I just hate it when some guy with a 40 in both hands calls someone a druggie because they are smoking a joint. alcohol is without a doubt worse for your body and mind than pot.</p>
<p>by the way, I am interested in what you mean by drugs.</p>
<p>ok, sorry about the confusion guys. by drugs i mean pot, crack, and other bad drugs. i should clarify that the parties i attend usually have alcohol and some have pot. however, usually when people are smoking pot outside i'm inside drinking with other people. it's never really been an issue with me b/c it's obvious who the pot smokers are, the hard drug addicts, the drinkers, and the "i'll try anything" groups are at my school. i guess what i am most afraid of is that a lot of californians smoke pot. at least that is the stereotype in ohio about californians. i know stereotypes don't account for everyone, but i saw a statistic where like 45% of students at UCSB smoke weed on a regular basis and that's a bit scary for me. if i go to CalPoly i don't want to feel like i don't belong or what not cus i've always been a partier, just never into drugs. i also don't want to date a guy that smokes pot or does anyother drugs.</p>
<p>again, you keep seperating alcohol use from drug use. alcohol is a drug. it is much worse then pot, something you called a 'bad drug'. i really can't understand how you can drink and then say other people are using 'bad drugs.' you say you are "never into drugs" but you drink alcohol. alcohol is as much as a drug as coke, heroin, crack, pot, TOBACCO, shrooms, ect. they are all drugs, and just because alcohol is legal for people over 21 doesn't mean it's safe at all. alcohol's bad side is that it kills brain cells, is addictive, and you can get alcohol poisoning. pot on the otherhand doesn't kill brain cells, isn't addicting, and you can't overdose, yet you call it a bad drug. I am not trying to tell you not to drink or to smoke pot, I just don't want you to believe that alcohol is not a drug. it is a drug in every sense. if you drink, you are a drug user.</p>
<p>i live in california, and i really don't know what parties are like in ohio, but here its not like everyone is toking. just like you said people usually drink everywhere and the people smoking weed will be outside (or in a designated room). i can't really comment on coke or other hard drugs because I hardly ever see them (or maybe I just don't notice them)</p>
<p>why are you affraid that californians smoke pot? I think you need to get educated in the area of drugs (not by experimenting with them, but by research). you seem to have a lot of stereotypes about pot users and other drugs in general. if you get anything out of my post, I just want you to realize that alcohol is a drug, and research drugs before you put them in the "bad drug" category.</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Marijuana's classified as a schedule 1 drug, the highest rating possible. This means it has a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use that other drugs cannot supply. Just to give you a feel for the schedule, cocaine is at schedule 2 and opium atschedule 3.</p>
<p>the public's been wildly influenced by radicals like eric schlosser and others who preach that marijuana is a harmless drug</p>
<p>it's not, man. you're the one who should read up on reports by professionals like Dr. Donald Tashkin, a leading expert in marijuana, and other NIDA doctors experienced in the field of drugs.
I don't look down on smoking, however. I mean, i smoke the herb every once in a while too. but i'm not going to fool myself in thinking it's a harmless, benevolent drug.</p>
<p>oh yea, there are going to be a lot of druggies in california. but you'll be fine if you're not into the scene.</p>
<p>Im in cali and a good amount of people somke weed.<br>
Even in the top 10% i know there has to be 25% tha have tried it or do it.</p>
<p>Even the asb president- top of top president of enitr school- smokes a ton of weed,</p>
<p>People that are in asb, leadership, those clubs are known to be smokers and drinkers. Ironically they are the ones that are suppose to be the leaders</p>
<p>The statement that there are "going to be a lot of druggies in california" is false and isn't based on evidence at all - it is opinion from someone living in Pennsylvania (how do you know how people live like in California?). I've lived here in California all my life and a lot of people aren't druggies for sure. The druggies, first off, won't be going to colleges for the vast majority and even those who manage to go to college, won't be attended prestigious institutions like the UC's or CalPolySLO most likely. Although, I will admit, there are a good number of students who do take drugs (but this is just like the situation in any other college).</p>
<p>The fact that marijuana is a schedule 1 means absolutely nothing if it has no proof. The laws that first made marijuana illegal were passed because of a fear that hemp paper would have a monopoly over tree paper. A schedule 1 drug, like you said is highly addictive Marijuana is not addictive, but it is habit forming (yes, studies have been done to prove this). But so it playing video games, watching reality tv, posting on message boards, gambling, ect. Just about everything is habit forming. If you watch tv everyday, try a week without turning your tv on. That is what habit forming it.</p>
<p>You claim there is no medical use. Dr. Donald Tashkin himself said that marijuana can stop asthma attacks. Marijuana helps ease eye pressure from glucoma, along with boosting a patients appetite without terrible side effects. To say there are no medicinal values is an ignorant statement. Marinol is already prescribed to patients, and so is medical marijuana in some states. </p>
<p>You say marijuana is not harmless. I assume you mean smoking it is bad for you. I agree, smoking is bad for you (I never said it wasn't). But you can eat or vaporize marijuana and destroy 99% of the carcinogens (the air you breathe will have more carcinogens then the vapor). Pot doesn't kill brain cells. NO ONE HAS EVER DIED FROM MARIJUANA OVERDOSE. There have not been any studies that link marijuana alone to lung cancer.</p>
<p>I could go on, but this post wasn't about if marijuana was bad or good for you. I even said in a previous post I was not advocating patientlywaiting to smoke at all. I was just trying to show that alcohol is a drug. In my opinion, it should be schedule 1 along with tobacco. Both are highly addictive and have little to no medicinal values. I was using marijuana as an example, not as an alternative. The whole point of my post was just to prove that ALCOHOL IS A DRUG. If you drink, you are a drug user. End of story.</p>
<p>^ i concur with hohner. I've read pretty much every MJ article in erowid.com...a while back.....there's some good info there.</p>
<p>Only potheads agree that weed is not a bad drug. Correct, weed is not the worst drug out there, but I know many people who's brains are just fried because of pot. BTW, never get into an arguement with a pothead about the negative effects of weed, unless you want to here a 45 minute diatribe about how weed helps you think and see beyond things. Blah, Blah, Blah. It still should be legal though.</p>
<p>i lived in ca til i was 14 years old, and visit my friends whenever i can.</p>