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by dyauspitr 27 days ago
Definitely. The healthy sport academic types stay pretty far away from any kind of mind altering drugs.
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I've known a lot of academics and more than a few (adult) athletes, and in my experience, cannabis is quite popular in both crowds.
I think above commentators may be referring to heavy multi-times-per-day usage patterns rather than casual or semi-casual.
Generally when they get much older in my experience and pretty infrequently. Most problematic cases start before they are 25.
Not really, it more depends if you are east coast or west coast. East coast has stigma associated with loss of control. They have a stick up their ass basically.
not alcohol, they will use that no problem, they can handle it unlike others