Some of the possible effects that are thought to be caused by smoking marijuana are forgetfulness, and reduced concentration. Because smoking marijuana is thought to tilt the balance of chemicals in the brain, it is said to regulate mood, appetite, energy, and attention. It also reduces logical thinking and calculation skills, and can impair a persons ability to perform a complex task, like driving a car. The reason for concern about long-term risks is because marijuana causes a build up of THC metabolites, and they stay in the fatty tissue of the human body for three to five days, and weeks in heavy
Some long-term effects are: suppression of the immune system, growth disorders, increase of abnormally structured cells in the body, or inability to understand things clearly. The foundation for a drug-free world feels very strongly when it comes to be being against marijuana; rather it’s with their arguments or by their name. It seems like they want to free the world of all drugs, not just marijuana. They talk about the affects of drugs like heroin, crack, cocaine, and even crystal meth. With marijuana they really stress negatives that it can do to your body.
One one side people attest bigotry, racism, and even the financial interests of big corporations as reasons, whereas the other side cites the fact that marijuana is, in fact, a drug and inherently harmful to both individuals and society. Opponents also point out that legalizing recreational marijuana is a violation of international law, specifically the United Nations Single Convention of Narcotics Drugs of 1961 (www.UN.org). There can be no doubt the effectiveness of the CSA concerning marijuana is less than stellar. To be effective one would have to say that people, first off, would agree overwhelmingly that use or possession of marijuana should be a crime in the first place. Even using the words 'legalization' and Federalism and Marijuana 'decriminalization' invite debate as one would suggest that the illegalization was right and proper and the other suggests the criminalization was the wrong thing to do in the first place, thereby creating a culture of criminals where there should never have been.
They have continually criticized the utilization of this plant, implying that its habitual use may cause a permanent brain damage of neurons. According to an article done by David Sack in the L.A. times “Marijuana acts on cannabinoid receptors in the brain. These receptors, which are the most prevalent in the nervous system, influence just about every bodily function, including memory, attention, disposition, arousal, motivation, perception, appetite and sleep.” () For example, because the main active ingredient THC found in marijuana effects the interaction neurons and this receptors affect the critical area of the memory, scientists believe stimulation from these cannabinoid receptors forge dependency; consequently forming habitual usage and in return, brain damage. Although studies do only show its effect on the developing stage of the brain, it has not been further studied
Also, one of the main ingredients called THC as a hallucinogen will disturb users’ sensory experience. “THC causes animals to misjudge events,” reported Ronald Siegel (Myers116), which means that THC would increase the dose of cocaine Houston takes because after taking marijuana, Houston was unable to realize that she had overdosed on cocaine and kept taking it. Therefore, taking marijuana and cocaine at the same time results in a chemical reaction to drive users take more cocaine, which strengthen depressed feelings eventually. Xanax, as an antianxiety drug, relieves users’ nervous tension by slowing down the movement of chemicals in the brain that may cause unbalance of chemicals, and it will calm central nervous system to cause sleepiness as well. So the dizziness caused by Xanax makes Whitney Houston unconscious when she was in a
“The Institute of Medicine panel concluded that marijuana has some therapeutic value for pain relief, control of nausea and vomiting, and appetite stimulation, and should be studied further in order to develop new cannabinoid drugs. It also concluded that marijuana has limited effectiveness in relieving the symptoms of glaucoma. No evidence was found that marijuana acts as a gateway drug to more dangerous recreational drugs.” (Levy, 1999) Living with HIV/AIDS can be extremely difficult and very painful. You lose the desire to do anything you stop eating, you get depressed, you are nauseous all the time. “Despite the limited amount of data available on the use of medicinal marijuana in the general population, it has been suggested that persons with HIV/AIDS are the largest group of medicinal marijuana users in both Canada and the United States.” (Furler, Einarson, Millson, Walmsley, Bendayan, 2004) While this may be true there are other minor diseases out there with the same symptoms so why should it be so hard for them to get medicinal marijuana?
)Marijuana use is WRONG-whatever one's moral beliefs about pot, marijuana laws have caused far more harm than marijuana use itself: marijuana prohibition drained precious criminal justice resources from our communities, made it difficult to keep pot from our children, and destroyed the lives and families of otherwise law abiding citizens 2.) "Marijuana regulation would send the wrong message to teens"- Regulation wuld REDUCE teen access to marijuana by taking it off the streets, regulating it, and sending adults to prison if they sell pot to young people. According to the White Houe, more than half of US teens try pot before graduationg from high school. In the Netherlands, where marijuana use is regulated, teen marijuana use dropped to only
Marijuana: Will you let this pass? Have you ever thought about smoking marijuana? Do you know the facts, and risks? In the article “Just Say No,” by Patrick Shaw, smoking marijuana is said to increase chances of lung cancer, disturb safety by causing dangers such as stoned driving, and also cause short term memory loss. With all these risks I guess it becomes easy to understand as to why kids that smoke marijuana do poorly in school.
Any drug one uses has a high potential of becoming addict status. Its how one decides to use the drug that dictates if he or she will become an addict. If one were to observe the trends of drugs he or she would see that the effects drugs have vary. According to GetGoing (2011) marijuana is a highly addictive drug but with few ill effects. Marijuana may cause panic and stress attacks in extreme cases but helps ones gain back loss of appetite, and can dull pain from radiation treatments (GetGoing, 2011).
Prescription Drug Abuse The purpose of this research is to persuade the population to take control with the use of the medications. The term drug abuse refers to using drugs with high frequency which can cause physical and/or mental harm to the user and/or impairs social functioning. Many people believe that drug abuse only involves illegal drugs, but in fact people often abuse prescription drugs. Marijuana and cocaine are no longer the only addictive drugs on the market. The most common drugs are pain killers, stimulants, depressants and antibiotics.