Theresa Chan: “Another problem associated with liberal marijuana prescribing is the impact on local students. Our local state university campus has the highest drop-out rate of all the California state universities. I know an administrator at the university, and she has told me that the school has no effective statistics to track why students drop out, but she suspects that many of them just stop showing up to class due to marijuana-induced academic apathy.”
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