&quot;Cannabis based friendships while in high school form extremely tight, rewarding social bonds. With a shared group identity and shared activities. Going to a concert and getting &#x27;so high&#x27; can be an extremely life affirming peak experience that strengthens social bonds.&quot;<p>Do you have any stats to back this up besides anecdotal evidence?<p>&quot;The people with their boot on your face don&#x27;t have your best interests at heart. Believe in yourself, and find your own way.&quot;<p>This may be the case, but MJ use at an early age is pretty much known by the medical community to cause issues that will directly effect learning.  I&#x27;m not sure why, if we are a community about learning, we should be encouraging this and spreading outright propaganda.<p>There may be people that are successful after smoking MJ for years at a time, but everyone that I know that smoked in highschool regularly never really accomplished anything and many are still in the same place (no career, always trying to make ends meet, barely an education).<p>Here is a good link on teen drug use and the effect on learning:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teens.drugabuse.gov&#x2F;drug-facts&#x2F;marijuana" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teens.drugabuse.gov&#x2F;drug-facts&#x2F;marijuana</a><p>It&#x27;s really not something we should be encouraging.