{"id":37891,"date":"2017-10-17T14:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T20:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=37891"},"modified":"2017-10-17T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T20:33:45","slug":"legal-pot-will-mean-lots-more-students-will-smoke-on-campus-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2017\/10\/17\/legal-pot-will-mean-lots-more-students-will-smoke-on-campus-survey-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal pot will mean lots more students will smoke on campus, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span> recent poll of SAIT students has found that 25 of 32 questioned say they don\u2019t smoke pot before class.<\/p>\n

B<\/span>ut many say that they will once the drug is legalized so they won’t be “worried of smelling.”<\/p>\n

The informal survey was conducted on campus in mid-September, as the federal government moved forward with plans to legalize pot as of next July 1.<\/p>\n

Some students who didn’t want to be named said smoking marijuana \u201cclouds their judgment\u201d or sometimes \u201cmakes it hard to concentrate.”<\/p>\n

Only six students out of those 32 said they do smoke before class, including one student who didn’t want to be named.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes I get really stressed about class, the course and what we\u2019re doing but smoking a little beforehand really helps,\u201d said the student.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt also helps me concentrate<\/a> a lot better. I can focus and get a lot more work done if I smoke before going into class.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if they think the use of marijuana before class, and on campus, will increase once it\u2019s legalized,\u00a0<\/a>15 of the respondents said yes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will give students better access and the thought of not getting in trouble for smelling like it, or getting caught smoking it on campus will get a lot more people into smoking before class,” said the student who was interviewed.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I get really stressed about class, and the course and what we\u2019re doing but smoking a little beforehand really helps. – A student<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Under the government’s plan, those age 18 and over will be able to purchase and possess small amounts of marijuana for personal use.
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SAIT currently has policies in place to allow anyone with a medical prescription to use smoke marijuana. Smoking is subject to same rules that apply to tobacco use, which means outdoors, in designated smoking areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A poll taken on campus shows that a majority of students don’t smoke campus on class, but that majority a big number of then believe that, that number will rise once the drug is legalized. [ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S1 Students and Pot","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-city","7":"category-life","8":"category-campus-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37891"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38759,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37891\/revisions\/38759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}