The Social Attitudes of College Students toward Marijuana: Implications for Education

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The purpose of this study was to identify college students' self-reported reasons for using or not using marijuana and to compare these patterns of acceptance or rejection with value frameworks from which drug decisions are made. A questionnaire was designed to measure patterns of past and present drug use behavior in relationship to age, sex, social values and grade point average. The data were analyzed by using the Nonparametric statistical method of chi-square. The findings in this study indicate that specificity is needed in drug education. The marijuana user should be presented with a drug education learning experience which would weaken or diminish the “Therapeutic Drug Ethic” values system, and strengthen the “Wisdom of Nature Ethic” values system.

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