<p>I know that PSU has a HUGE reputation for drinking. Like, every single night. But what about weed?</p>
<p>......Anyone? It'd be great if I could get some honest answers.</p>
<p>People tend to smoke "weed" in private so that is always hard to judge, but I know every university has a lot of drinkers even during school days. I know this.. I've been to four universities :p</p>
<p>People smoke weed, they just aren't as obvious with it as they are with drinking.</p>
<p>i was really wondering this same thing, i just didn't have the balls to post it on here.
any input would be good</p>
<p>I'm sure there are students smoking; we read about them every week in the police report, which is printed in the local paper. (One can generally tell by the addresses which are students.) I know one student who spent several months in jail last year.</p>
<p>I'm just not necessarily into that whole "drinking" scene, and I'm consider PSU less and less because I think drinking every single night and partying 24/7 doesn't seem like the type of environment I want.</p>
<p>You'd think because it's in the middle of nowhere, kids would be more open about smoking marijuana (or at least you'd hear about it more?), but I guess not.</p>
<p>sounds cliche but when i was younger.... at psu 30 years ago there was both and i believe it to be true in 2009. i also think that the entire campus does not party 24/7. it all depends on you and your own personal choices. psu offers so much in the way of organized clean fun you just need to take advantage of it and find the right people to hang out.</p>
<p>More open about smoking marijuana? It is illegal & you are wasting your life. Marijuana is much more stronger than it was 30 years ago - plus you are trusting drug dealers with what you are putting in your body.</p>
<p>miche, that's not the argument or the point.
it's less dangerous than alcohol. how many people die to a THC marij overdose per year? ever?
ZERO.
how many people die in alcohol-related accidents every year? hundreds of thousands.
when people are intoxicated via alcohol, they often are overconfident and think they can drive. when one is intoxicated via thc, they KNOW they are intoxicated and won't drive ect, or will do so much more carefully.</p>
<p>Read the facts on the dangers of marijuana - gateway drug. You can't defend it.</p>
<p>Another study looked at data concerning shocktrauma
patients who had been involved in traffic crashes. The researchers found that 15 percent of the trauma patients who were injured while driving a car or motorcycle had been smoking marijuana, and another 17 percent had both THC and alcohol in their blood.</p>
<p>I'm just a concerned mom - you obviously don't have much life experience. Just don't learn the hard way. Is it really worth getting kicked out of school for this?</p>
<p>I never understood people who feel the need to get trashed or they won't have "fun." Even as a young college student, I didn't understand people who got into alcohol and Colombian pharmaceuticals. For what? The hell of it? That makes a lot of sense. Not.</p>
<p>I really hate when people say marijuana is a "natural" drug and doesn't cause people to do stupid things. It's far more dangerous than most users realize. It impairs your perception, judgment, thinking, memory, and learning. Therefore, people who have just smoked are just as dangerous on the roads as a person who has been drinking....</p>
<p>miche, do some research, the 'gateway drug' theory has been DISPROVEN.
i don't even smoke weed or drink, i've been sober for over a year, no problem.
i hate when people think they're smarter just because they're older. i respect my elders, but not because they're more intelligent than i am.
and tilohnine, if you're going to drive while intoxicated, that's not the substance's fault, it's the idiot user's fault.
who needs to drive anyway while at the psu campus? irrelevant to the discussion.
p.s. ignorance bothers me.</p>
<p>Ignorance? Obvious you haven't read up on marijuana. Don't discount "older" people's experience. I have seen many die and lives just ruined by marijuana and alcohol use. Unfortunately, many youth have to learn the hard way. I don't really understand what your argument is - alcohol and abusing drugs are good??? That is why there are laws against such things. Anyway, I'm not going to argue anymore with you on this. You are one that ignores such things as facts.</p>
<p>Most of the hard core partiers flunk out their first year and don't come back....just like other colleges. Nothing going on at PSU that's not going on in the rest of the world.</p>
<p>I can't even imagine wasting my parents money and my effort in high school by flunking out of college, whether it was party-induced or not. Those kids are a bunch of mental weaklings. </p>
<p>Arrggh! Few things aggravate me more than that thought. I would never **** away an opportunity to go to a great college because of some dumbass drinking and partying! Stupid, stupid, stupid!</p>
<p>"who needs to drive anyway while at the psu campus? irrelevant to the discussion."
Just because students don't need to drive doesn't mean they don't. It was certainly relevant in this case--
"Anthony Torsell, then 20, was convicted of striking visitor Richard Smith, 21, and student Aaron Stidd, then 20, at 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 28, 2006, as they crossed the intersection at Atherton Street at Beaver Avenue. Smith died at Mount Nittany Medical Center the night of the accident, and Stidd was critically injured."</p>
<p>News</a> In Brief - The Daily Collegian Online</p>
<p>(Torsell is a former student. His BAC was .242 when he struck and killed Richard Smith.)</p>
<p>so what are your points, don't drink and have fun at college?
i'm just saying that people should have the opportunity to have fun and enjoy themselves AFTER their work is finished.</p>
<p>I have no problem with that, as long as they do it responsibly.</p>