Truth About Marijuana

[marie]

Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mix of dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp plant. Marijuana is usually smoked as a cigarette, or in a pipe or bong, or in blunts which are cigars that have been emptied of tobacco and refilled with marijuana, sometimes in combination with another drug, such as crack. Marijuana can also be mixed into foods or used to brew a tea. Marijuana is illegal in the United States.

Street Names

There are more than 200 slang names for marijuana. Here are some:

• Pot
• Herb
• Weed
• Grass
• Boom
• Mary Jane
• Reefer
• Ganja
• Blunt
• Joint
• Roach
• Nail
• Gangster
• Chronic

Sinsemilla (sin-seh-me-yah; it's a Spanish word), hashish (hash for short), and hash oil are stronger forms of marijuana.

Possible Health Effects of Marijuana

• Marijuana affects your lungs - there are more than 400 known chemicals in marijuana, and a single joint contains four times as much cancer-causing tar as a filtered cigarette. Smoking one joint of marijuana is worse than smoking as much as four cigarettes.
• Marijuana affects how your brain works.
• Marijuana affects memory and learning, thinking and problem solving.
• Marijuana affects your sense of time, coordination, judgment, and distortes your perception.
• Marijuana can drain your motivation, and can make you feel anxious.
• Marijuana can cause problems in daily life or make existing problems worse.
• Marijuana can limit your body's ability to fight off infection.
• Marijuana increases heart rate by 20 to 100 percent shortly after smoking and can last up to 3 hours.
• Marijuana increases risk of heart attack in the first hour after smoking the drug.
• Marijuana or crack cocaine increases your risk of developing pneumonia and other illnesses.
• Long-term marijuana use can increase the risk of developing certain mental illnesses.
• Marijuana can be laced with other dangerous drugs without your knowledge. "Blunts" are hollowed-out cigars filled with marijuana, and sometimes have substances such as crack cocaine, PCP, or embalming fluid added.
• Marijuana or other drugs increases your risk of injury from car crashes, falls, burns, drowning, and other accidents.
• Marijuana increases risk of depression.
• Marijuana increases risk of suicidal ideation.
• Marijuana increases risk of schizophrenia.
• Marijuana can be addictive.

Possible Marijuana Withdrawal Symptoms

Withdrawal symptoms usually begin about 1 day following abstinence, peak at 2 to 3 days, and then subside within 1 or 2 weeks following drug cessation:

• Sleeplessness
• Decreased appetite
• Irritability
• Drug craving
• Anxiety

[Anonymous Bot]

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Marijuana is illegal in the United States.

Medical Marijuana is legal in many states though such as California. I recently heard that they are now trying to pass legislation in the state of California to make Marijuana completely legal for recreational use in California too. I think one of their motives for pushing it to be legal is the state of California is in a serious financial crisis and by legalizing Marijuana it would raise millions of dollars in tax revenues for the state. Secondly it would bring down the price and make it hard for people who smuggle in Marijuana to compete which could have a slight impact on those drug wars in Mexico, although there are many other drugs besides Marijuana that I am sure they are bringing into the United States.