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Marijuana Kristal Renwick

Isn’t it amazing how leaves can alter the mind? That’s what Marijuana does. It is, dried flowers, leaves and the steams of the Cannabis sativa plant. Weed, ( another nickname) can be the colors of green, brown, or even gray. THC, the main ingredient of Marijuana bind certain receptors in the brain called the cannabinod reptors in the brain called the cannabinod reptors. Now, THC will look for these reptors. When you smoke weed, you will have a difficult time learning. This is because the hippocampus plays a huge role in learning. This gives most people the feeling the desire.

Now, you might ask why people do it? Well, sometimes when someone is in a lot of stress and don’t know how to deal with it, weed can help them relax and put them in a good mood. But the side effects are you will feel extremely dizzy and start to get really hungry. You will also see hallucinations.

Here are the effects of smoking weed, memory, learning and increased heart rase. You might also find its hard to run and breathe. You will find that you will become more paranoid. Those are the short term side effects. The long term effects are quite different, you will have serve damages to the brain which will affect your memory and learning and attention. You will have hallucinations. Sometimes breathing problems will ac cur.

Even though marijuana is illegal, it is the most used drug in the U.S. Childern over 12 usually start this and soon become addicted. When weed is harvested, you hang it upside down in a dark room, then trim the buds. “marijuana” is a Hispanic term for the bud of the hemp plant.

Cannabis, is a known as marijuana or weed. (from the Mexican Spanish marihuana). This can be used as a psychoactive drug and as medicine, as I mentioned earlier. Com temporary uses of cannabis are as a recreational drug, or as a religious or spiritual rites, the earliest recorded uses date from the third millennium BC. In 2004 the U.S. Estimated that global consumption of weed indicated that probably 4.0 percent of the adult or young adult world population, 162 million people! Have used weed annually and that approximately 0.6 percent, 22.5 million people, smoke weed daily. But ever since the early 20th century, weed has been subjected legal restrictions with the possession use, and sale of weed preparations containing psychoactive cannabinoids currently illegal in most countries of the world. The united nations has said that cannabis is the most used drug in the entire world.

Weed has a extreme psychoactive and physiological effects when smoked. The minimum amount of TCH required to get high is about 10 micrograms per kilogram of body weight. Aside from a subjective change in perception and most notably mood and the most common, hard to do any physical activity. Extreme heart rate also. And lowered blood pressure, impairment of short term working memory. Long term effects are much less clear. But, deaths accrued with weed, are extremely rare. Fatalities resulting from weed or marijuana overdose are said to most often occur after intravenous injection of hashish oil. Which, in my opinion, I do not understand how cigarette's are going to be legal and alcohol when these actually kill people, marijuana does not.

THC does not do any good for the brain. Certain parts of the brain have really high concentrations of cannabinoid receptors. These areas are the hippocampus, the cerebellum, the basal ganglia, and the cerebral cortex. The functions that these brain areas control are the ones most affected by marijuana. For example, the chemical THC interferes with focus and learning, that is because the hippocampus, a part of the brain with a funny name and a big job, plays a critcal role in certain types of learning. Disrupting is normal functioning can lead to problems studying, learning new things and recalling events will be extremely difficult. The difficulty can be a lot more serious than forgetting if you took out the trash this morning, while happens to everyone.

Most people don’t think weed can get addictive, well they are wrong. About 9 percent of people who smoke weed become dependent on it. The number increases to about one in six among these who start using it at a young age. And 25 to 50 percent among daily users. Weed increases dopamine, which creates the good feeling or “high” when smoked. The user will mostly likely feel the urge to smoke weed again and again to re create the feeling he or she got. This causes addiction.

People who use marijuana may also experience a withdraw syndrome when they stop using the drug. Such as depression, crazy dreams, and weight loss. Effects which can last for a few weeks after you quit smoking.

And if you are wondering if marijuana leds to other drugs, that is a yes. Your body is going to wonder what else can make you feel that good and calm, or even better, you will soon try even more drugs than you did before and might get addicted. And another reason why it will led to other drugs is because you will be associated with those groups of people, and of course they will mention other things they will be selling to make more money, and of course, especially at a young age, you will get tempted to try more and more. That will defiantly led to a habit.

Sixteen states have legalized marijuana though, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Columbia, Hawaii, Maine Michigan, Montana, new Mexico, Nevada, new jersey, organ, Rhodes island, Vermont, Washington.

Marijuana, or cannabis, as it is more appropriately called, has been part of humanity's medicine chest for almost as long as history has been recorded.

Of all the negative consequences of marijuana prohibition, none is as tragic as the denial of medicinal cannabis to the tens of thousands of patients who could benefit from it therapeutic use. Modern research suggest that weed is a valuable aid in the treatment of wide range of clinical applications. These include pain relief (particularly of neropathic pain) nausea, spasticity, glaucoma, and the movement disorders. Weed is also very powerful appetite stimulant, specifically for patients suffering AIDS or HIV. Emerging research suggests that weeds medicinal properties may protect the body against some types of tumors.

Currently more than 60 U.S and international health organizations support granting patients immediate legal access to medicinal weed under a doctors supervision.

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