Educational Outcomes September 26th, 2016 With Kevin Sabet, Ph.D . - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Marijuana and Educational Outcomes

September 26th, 2016

With

Kevin Sabet, Ph.D. Co-Founder & President Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) and Gregg Raduka, Ph.D.,LPC, ICPS Executive Director Let’s Be Clear Georgia

• Latest research connecting marijuana use and decreases in IQ
• Latest research connecting marijuana and school performance
• How the effects of marijuana compare to

alcohol’s effects on school outcomes

• Recent educational outcomes of Colorado's marijuana

"Experiment" with children's and teens' academic careers

• Marijuana Statistics from the Georgia Student Health Survey 2.0
• Questions and Answers

Webinar Topics

Cessation of substance use is associated with improvement in academic performance and school attendance.

“Stopping out” – Gaps in College Enrollment

In adolescents, heavy alcohol use is associated with:

• Structural and function changes in the brain
• Differences in sleep patterns
• Poor planning
• Impaired executive functioning
• Spatial deficits
• Attention deficits

NEUROBIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

OF ALCOHOL USE

Acutely, marijuana use is associated with:

• Attention and concentration difficulties
• Decreased working memory
• Decreased information processing
• Decreased decision response speed
• Longer-term…
• Impaired planning, organizing, and problem solving
• Deficits to allocation of attentional resources and filtering out irrelevant material
• Retrieval and immediate verbal memory deficits

NEUROBIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

OF Marijuana USE

NEUROBIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

OF Marijuana USE

• Deficits are more likely when
• marijuana use is initiated earlier in
• life and when use is more frequent.
• Early chronic marijuana use is
• associated with declines in IQ of up to

8 points.

• (Corresponds to a drop from the 50th to 30th

percentile)

What wesuspect…

Marijuana and other drug use might be driving academic problems, and nonmedical use of prescription stimulants is a compensatory behavior… a shortcut, and largely unsuccessful.

Data from The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact Vol. 4 /September 2016 from the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA)

Youth Marijuana Use in Colorado

• Youth past month marijuana use increased 20% in

the 2 year average (2013/2014) since Colorado legalized recreational marijuana compared to the 2 year average prior to legalization (2011/2012).

More from Rocky Mountain HIDTA Report

• Colorado youth past month marijuana use for

2013/2014 was 74% higher than the national average compared to 39% higher in 2011/2012.

• The latest 2013/2014 results show Colorado youth

ranked #1 in the nation for past month marijuana use, up from #4 in 2011/2012 and #14 in 2005/2006.

Colorado School Data

The Colorado Department of Education began collecting marijuana violations separately from all drug violations during the 2015-2016 school year.

 “In school year 2015/2016, 63% of all drug related suspensions were for marijuana violations.”  “In school year 2015/2016, 58% of all drug related expulsions were for marijuana violations.”  “In school year 2015/2016, 73% of all drug related referrals to law enforcement were for marijuana violations.”

More from the Colorado HIDTA Report

• The top ten states for the highest rate of current

marijuana youth use were all medical marijuana states

• whereas the bottom ten were all non-medical

marijuana states.

Source: The Colorado Department of Education

Georgia Student Health Survey 2.0 Georgia Dept. of Education

• 54. During the past 30 days, on how many

days did you use marijuana or hashish? 14.0% of high school seniors reported having used marijuana at least once in the last 30 days during the 2014-2015 school year. 12.2% of high school seniors reported having used marijuana at least once in the last 30 days during the 2015-2016 school year.

• More GSHS 2.0 Data
• 104. How much do you think people risk harming

themselves, physically and in other ways, if they smoke marijuana once or twice a week?

• Even though the question now refers to smoking 4-8 times per

month, Georgia High School Senior data reveal the following: No Risk – 40.7% Slight Risk – 19.3% Total - 60.0% no risk or slight risk from 2015-2016 State Report No Risk – 39.9% Slight Risk – 20.0% Total - 59.9% no risk or slight risk from 2014-2015 State Report

• 108. How wrong do your parents feel it would be for you to smoke

marijuana?

Not at all – 11.8% A little bit wrong – 7.9% Total: 19.7% or almost 1 in every 5 2015-2016 State Report Not at all – 11.6% A little bit wrong – 8.4% Total: 20.0% 2014-2015 State Report

Questions and Answers

After the webinar has ended questions for Dr. Sabet or

• Dr. Raduka can be emailed to

admin@ClearGA.org Thank You for Attending!