Will more or less students smoke weed after January 1?
October 7, 2019
At Morton East, 15 students get caught smoking marijuana every year in school. Will that get better once it becomes legal?
In the survey “do you smoke marijuana,” 55 out of 100 said yes and 45 said no, so, in conclusion, a little bit more than half of the 100 students smoke marijuana. Recreational marijuana can be sold legally to persons 21 years of age and older from licensed dispensaries after January 1, 2020. Some doctors say marijuana is safe and effective in the treatment of many medical conditions. But, the federal government has not legalized it.
“In June 2018, cannabis, a substance that is present in marijuana received approval as a treatment for some types of epilepsy. I have performed enough research to have an opinion on how this treats certain diagnoses,” school nurse Ms. Hernandez said.
One thing students need to know is that the Federal government still considers marijuana a crime. Even persons over 21 years won’t be able to carry marijuana on airplanes or across state lines.
“The benefits of smoking marijuana? The food and drug administration has not deemed marijuana safe or effective in the treatment of any medical condition,” school nurse Ms. Hernandez said.
Smoking already causes problems. Will it get better once it’s legalized recreationally?
“It’s already affecting people, people already (get into trouble) — people are getting locked up in jail. People using legalized marijuana would cause more problems,” Security from Morton East said.
And, just like alcohol, students won’t be old enough.
“When students act all excited about how marijuana ‘will be legal soon,’ I remind them: not for them. They have years before they turn 21,” journalism teacher Mr. Frankfother said.
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Kiara Grear • Oct 10, 2019 at 9:04 am
There is some misspelling in the Headline, and there should be more transitions in the article. But overall the piece had great reasoning behind the direct quotes.
Ariana • Oct 9, 2019 at 10:19 am
Misspelled the title and should say what group of students did the survey to be more credible.
Axel Gomez • Oct 9, 2019 at 10:13 am
I really like how they included a direct quote from Morton East’s Nurse.
One thing that should be fixed or improved is the punctuation.
miguel perez • Oct 8, 2019 at 11:26 pm
It won’t change anything. All students are 18 or under and students will continue to smoke weed. Maybe, students will feel a little safer smoking weed in public since it will now be legal, however they aren’t 18. There might be a small increase in people who smoke weed though.
Alfredo M • Oct 8, 2019 at 2:14 pm
it wont affect students as much. most reasons why its been legalized is to decrease the amount of drug dealers in the us, but it seems like students will end up still finding methods to obtain weed in some shape or form.
Angel Castro • Oct 8, 2019 at 2:10 pm
It’s ‘weed’ not ‘week’. Improve your grammar.
Sarahi B. • Oct 8, 2019 at 12:29 pm
i dont know if students will stop smoking once marijuana is legalized. being able to buy it at age of 21 wont change the fact that kids will still buy it. theyll find a way.
Karina Perez • Oct 8, 2019 at 12:24 pm
I think that the amount of students that are smoking and vaping will be more just because they still can get what they want from older people. Students should reconsider when making these types of decisions because it can effect their health negatively. Also students will probably ignore the fact that it is supposed to be 21 or older in order to be legal.
Nailea Chavez • Oct 8, 2019 at 11:20 am
I feel like more students will smoke marijuana. If it becomes legal than more people will be able to have access to it and so more students will be able to obtain it. I agree with the Morton East security because it will cause more problems.
Ana • Oct 8, 2019 at 11:09 am
I believe that making marijuana legal will help increase the number of people who use it. People use it and get in trouble for that and they still don’t care and continue to use it. Making it legal will just make it easier for them to smoke. Which will cause an increasingly amount of students to smoke.
Emiliano • Oct 8, 2019 at 11:04 am
I think that people will be able to get weed much easier because when its legal you will be able to get it much cheaper and more safer.
Isaak R. • Oct 8, 2019 at 10:50 am
I don’t smoke Week, Weed however is a different story. The amount of ganja smoked will not rise most likely due to the fact that dispensaries will not allow under-aged smokers to go inside, combined with the taxing that will probably occur due to Illinois taxing everything, nobody will want to pay extra for Kush when you could already get it cheaper from your neighborhood dealer.
danny • Oct 8, 2019 at 10:11 am
People are still going to smoke weed tho.
Evelyn Alvarado • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:27 am
I believe that the number of students that will smoke weed will stay the same because now a days is pretty easy to buy weed. If someone really wanted to try it then they would’ve figured a way to try it already by now. Also there’s not much difference for students because they’re all under 18.
Eduardo • Oct 7, 2019 at 7:00 pm
While I don’t know if this will affect students consuming more weeks (56 out of 52 weeks?), I don’t think more students will use weed. It becoming LEGAL won’t really encourage people to start smoking.
Kayla • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:21 pm
I think that they will because a lot of people have been smoking for a while so why would the just stop randomly.
Nazario • Oct 7, 2019 at 9:23 am
its going to be the same, nothing new because people been doing it and after 2020 its just legalized and just goes to the dispensaries for older people.