Marijuana legalization divides Christie, Fiorina

As 2016 GOP hopefuls Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina came out this week with opposing views on legalization of marijuana in the U.S., a new Dutch study shows college students who smoke weed performed worse in school than those who stopped smoking.

Researchers were able to conduct a unique study in the Netherlands, where pot has been legal for many years, when authorities in the city of Maastricht placed temporary restrictions banning foreigners from buying weed in “coffee shops.”

The six month ban was part of an attempt to curb “drug tourism” in the college town and allowed professors Olivier Marie and Ulf Zolitz to compare the academic performance of foreign students who could not legally buy pot with nationals to determine if the policy change affected their grades.

After looking at more than 54,000 test grades for almost 5,000 students, the researchers found students who were banned from buying

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