<p>I know I lost brain cells reading this!
sorry but most of the really smart ones I know DO NOT GET HIGH! Most want to go to school to be an engineer not pothead</p>
<p>“Why are all the smartest students the biggest potheads?”</p>
<p>Actually, this might not be a serious question, but I actually noticed this when I was in pharmacy school. Many (not all) of the smartest kids were potheads (and worse). Here the reason: all potheads and party-ers with average intelligence have already flunked out. Thus, the only drug and alcohol users who are left are smart. Intelligence and drug use is a spurious relationship.</p>
<p>“Then you have c"Rappers,” hip-hop artists, etc."</p>
<p>What are you implying?</p>
<p>Drug use is way to big a category. I doubt you’re going to find many people doing crystal meth or crack that do well in college, but psychadelic use is a different story. I’ve known many people in undergrad and grad programs at top schools who use once or twice a week and do just fine - but once or twice isn’t really the same thing as a pothead. Then again, I know people that don’t use and do well too. So I’m with lkf725 on this - there’s no real relationship between drug use and academic performance if you’re intelligent.</p>
<p>Unless you count World of Warcraft as a drug. That, I’ve seen wreck lives.</p>
<p>It’s kind of ironic that pharmacy students would be drug users. Shouldn’t they be more attuned than most to the effects of usage? Then again, weed isn’t really considered a drug to many people.</p>
<p>Weed is a minor hallucinogen. It’s still a drug.</p>