Essay About Marijuana

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Teenage marijuana use is at an all time high, it has been found that today's teen marijuana smokers are doing so at extreme amounts, some even do so daily. What are the factors that cause them to start experimenting and smoking marijuana? The amounts of marijuana being smoked by today's teenagers must have an effect on the developing teens. The minds and bodies of the teens who smoke must be facing some sort of developing issues. Marijuana is a mild drug compared to harsher drugs like cocaine, heroin, meth, etc. the users of marijuana will eventually look for a stronger and long lasting high so they will turn to these harsher and more addicting substances. The decisions that today's teens are making to smoke marijuana might have a...show more content...

Both points of view neglect to include what causes the teenage smokers that are the ones giving it to their friends, the ones that are popular and aren't stressed. Today's research is only done on a specific group of teens not the remaining individuals and why they started and currently smoke marijuana.

What the developmental issues regarding smoking marijuana as a teen:

It seems every decade marijuana studies show that it has no side effects on users, in turn it become more available like when some states in America had legalized it. Dr Kevin M. Gray believes that the only side effect of smoking weed is the physical addictions it causes, he believes that over 51% of all teens have used weed at least once and the biggest problem we are facing with this rapidly growing drug use is only addiction. Dr Marshall M. Gay believes that the health effects of weed isn't that much as smoking cigarettes and doesn't see it a threat to people's health. "More than half (51%) of adolescents reported that marijuana is fairly or very easy to obtain.2 this ease of availability may have contributed to a recently reported "reverse gateway" from cigarettes use to marijuana". The more ignored belief is that marijuana can lead to a variety of developmental, mental and physical side effects. The effects of smoking weed can extend to those of smoking cigarettes "studies show regular marijuana use can lead to many of the same Get

Essay On Cannabis

Cannabis is the most prevalent illicit drug worldwide that was classified by the DEA as a schedule I drug. Cannabis exhibits a combination of stimulant, depressant, and hallucinogenic properties. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is considered the primary active component of the cannabis plant which contribute to cannabis psychosis properties, another active component of cannabis is cannabidiol (CBD) which has anti–anxiety and anti–psychotic properties. Cannabis is consumed in various way, for example cannabis can be inhaled from small pipes or smoked as bongs, joint, or tobacco–leaf–wrapped blunt. Cannabis can be also consumed as a tea or as an ingredient baked or cooked in food like cookies and brownies. Cannabis is involved in approximately 50% of psychosis, schizophrenia, and...show more content...

THC induce it's psychotogenic role by modulating brain dopamine transmitters. A series of cohort studies like the Swedish conscript study and Dunedin cohort study have shown the association between cannabis abuse and psychosis risk. Two meta–analysis studies concluded that cannabis consumption was associated with approximately two–fold increase risk of developing a psychotic disorder. Individuals who showed any evidence of psychosis proneness are those who started using cannabis in early adolescence because early adulthood is a period of time during which the developing brain is more vulnerable to the adverse effect of cannabis. Cannabis is widely abused in Florida according to treatment data. The number of cannabis related treatment admission per 100,000 populations estimated to be (133) in Florida exceeded the number per 100,000 population nationwide (103), leaving Miami with a significant number of ED mentions associated with cannabis use. In this retrospective case–control study the focus of the study will involve psychosis induction by Tetrahydrocannabinolin Miami

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Marijuana legalization has been a hot topic for many years. To both sides of the argument there are many pluses and minuses. I personally feel that legalization of marijuana would be a great benefit to this country. In the complex society we live in however it is very hard to distinguish the truth from the lies. Personal morals and stereotypes are also a major factor when trying to argue a subject of this nature. On one side there are some positive effects, which have been proven as the result of marijuana. Many legal drugs that you can purchase are more harmful then marijuana. My opinions based on legalization or marijuana is based on a number social and economic factors. That brings up the questions why not legalize marijuana as...show more content...

It also gives people suffering from AIDS thesensation to want to eat.

Marijuana can also help symptoms from getting worse with patients with glaucoma. (C) There is also evidence that marijuana consumption can help relieve pain from people suffering with tumors and migraines.

Another way marijuana could be a health benefit is to use it on patients who suffer from asthma. The condition that blocks the airways, characterized by periodic attacks of wheezing shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. Marijuana has had significant evidence from study that marijuana reduces the symptoms of this desiese(A). People with asthma are being prescribed "Theopoline" right now for this condition. This drug is responsible for 6,500 hospital deaths and 1,000 cases of brain damage per year, im pretty sure if you asked one of the patients with brain damage if he would prefer the use of marijuana or the legal way he would not hesitate to say marijuana. Marijuana should be used because it is a safe alternative from more dangerous drugs.

Lets just take a look at the facts on legal and illegal drug deaths in America today shall we? There are 340,00 to 425,000 relater deaths from tobacco each year, 150,000 alcohol related deaths, there are 5000 caffeine related deaths a year from stress ulcers and irregular heart beats. Aspirin related deaths are over 1000. There are over 20,000 "Legal" Drug overdose deliberate or accidental. Theopoline as I mentioned

Marijuana may control the way people act, think, and even hurt their college academics. Marijuana is one of the most popular used drugs in America ranking about third after tobacco and alcohol. Marijuana is a substance that has become very much a part of American culture; many college students have either used it occasionally or regularly. With that in mind, I thought it would be interesting to find out about students at Alcorn State University (ASU) and their use of marijuana. In fact most students might not even know what they are smoking and what exactly makes them feel the way they do.

Exactly what is marijuana? Marijuana is made of the dried leaves and flowers of the female cannabis sativa plant, and looks like oregano. There are...show more content...

I felt it would let me see first–hand how people act when smoking marijuana. I figured it would be a lot easier to observe my friends smoking marijuana because I know they would not feel uncomfortable. I was aware that students could lie on the survey and in my interview so that is why I decided to see people smoking first hand.

To start out the survey I asked not to write your name just to indicate whether you were male or female. There were six males and four females. I also needed to know whether or not they smoked marijuana; there were eight out of ten students who smoke marijuana. Why do young people start to use marijuana? There are many reasons why most young people start to smoke marijuana because their friends or brothers and sisters use marijuana and pressure them to try it. In my survey five out of ten students said the reason for starting to smoke was because of their peers or older siblings. When interviewing Jada she said, "I only started because of my friends, they said I would like it so I tried it, and I did." Desiree answered that question a little different replying, "I watched my older brother always smoke weed and he looked like he was having fun. So one day I took some and asked my friends to do it with me." Others may think it's cool to start because they hear songs about it and see it on TV and in movies. In my

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People might think smoking marijuana is cool. They might try it without knowing what it is or what affects is has on you. Once someone smokes it for the first time, they might keep doing it again and again and they could get hooked on it for life. People who use marijuana usually never use any other type of illegal drugs, but more than seven thousand five hundred people get arrested for using marijuana every year. There is a wide variety of marijuana, but they are all based off of two marijuana plants, Indica and Sativa. Marijuana is very popular in America, and all over the world. Marijuana affects the body, it can be used as medicine, and marijuana can be addictive. Marijuana can simply increase the user's happiness, but it can also mess...show more content...

As soon as someone smells smoke that smells sweet and sour, they know that it is definitely marijuana smoke. It can be used in many ways such as smoked, usually in joints, bongs, and blunts. Some people even put it on their food and brew as tea! The two most common types of marijuana plants are Sativa and Indica. The only differences are the Indica grows short and wide and are better suited to grow inside. The Sativa are thin and tall and are suited to grow outside because they can even grow to reach twenty five feet in height. Some popular types of marijuana are White Widow, Sour Diesel, Bubblegum, Vortex, and Holland's Hope. All of them give the user the "high" feeling, which leaves them happy and dizzy at the same time. Marijuana was first used in ancient China by a Chinese Emperor by the name of Shen Nung. Even Queen Victoria used it. Shen Nung the Chinese Emperor was the first recorded person who used marijuana. He would use it as a pain killer during operations. In ancient India marijuana was holy. A Hindu god by the name of Shiva gave hemp as a gift to all humanity. It was inexpensive and available to almost everyone. It was known as "The Poor Man's Heaven". Cannabis leaves were commonly brewed, and they would add milk and sugar to make a drink. In ancient Rome there was a physician named Galen. He recommended the use of marijuana to reduce pain in operations, or for just everyday pains.

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Marijuana Can Change the World

To the AIDS or cancer patient, marijuana is the plant that fights nausea and appetite loss. To the nutritionist, its seed is second only to the soybean in nutritional value and is a source of cooking oil and vitamins. To the paper or cloth manufacturer, it is the plant that provided much of our paper and clothing for hundreds of years and produces four times more fiber per acre than trees. To the environmentalist, it is the plant that could greatly slow deforestation, restore robbed nutrients by other crops, and help prevent erosion. According to Lonnelle Aikman, "Preliminary findings show the drug may prove effective against glaucoma and asthma, and control such side nausea in cancer treatment"(158)....show more content... Before deciding whether marijuana should be legal or illegal, one needs to know some basic facts. Lester Grinspoon, M.D. and James B. Bakalar note

"most botanists agree that there are three species of marijuana; Cannabis sativa, the most widespread of the three, is tall, gangly, and loosely branched, growing as high as twenty feet; Cannabis indica is shorter, about three or four feet in height, pyramidal in shape and densely branched; Cannabis ruderalis is about two feet high with few or no branches"

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"Cannabis has become one of the most widespread and diversified of plants. It grows as weed and cultivated plant all over the world in a variety of climates and soils" (page 1, Librarything.com) Marijuana was first cultivated in China around 4000 B.C. It was mainly used as a sedative and analgesic, but today it is commonly used for the "high" or the euphoric feeling it causes. The most active ingredient in marijuana is delta–9–tetrahydrocannibinal commonly referred to as THC, which wasn't discovered until the 1960s. Marijuana is illegal today because of the Marijuana Stamp Tax Act passed in 1937. This act prohibited the use, sale, and growing of marijuana. It was made illegal because no one understood why smoking marijuana made people feel the way they did, and because it was associated with Indians and other so called "immoral people." Today marijuana is illegal because

Marijuana

Marijuana is a big topic these days. Many people want to make sure that marijuana stays illegal. Yet they do not know all the facts about marijuana. They just think that marijuana is bad. I believe that marijuana should be made legal. First of all, marijuana refers to the dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant, which contain the narcotic chemical THC at various potencies. It is smoked or eaten to produce the feeling of being "high". Marijuana has been used for thousands of years for medical, social, relaxation, and religious reasons. Several of our presidents are believed to have smoked it. Those presidents include Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and many others. John F. Kennedy smoked it to relieve...show more content...

The government states that over 20 million Americans still smoke marijuana. You can say that marijuana affects your health, but marijuana is less dangerous than tobacco and people smoke less of it at a time. Or you can eat the plant instead of smoking it, which can lower health risks by a lot. Another way to reduce health risks is by reducing smoking amounts. There is no proof that marijuana causes health problems that can lead to death or sexual programs, but like alcohol, it is not recommended for children or teenagers to use. This is simply because children and teenagers are in the process of growing up, and it would not be a good idea to smoke anything or drink alcohol. Cannabis is a medical herb that has literally hundreds of proven, valuable therapeutic uses. For example, you can use marijuana for stress reduction, asthma, cancer therapy, and much more. Marijuana is not just for getting "high", but a valuable medical medicine. Dr. Gabriel Nahas, who made totally false statistics and studies, was very biased and unscientific. He was even fired by the National Institute of Health and the NIH told the public his studies were meaningless. For one experiment, he suffocated a monkey for 5 minutes at a time, using way more smoke than the average marijuana user inhales in an entire lifetime. The other studies were lacking controls and produced results which cannot be Get

Essay about Marijuana

Marijuana Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States. A dry, shredded greenish brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa, usually is smoked as a cigarette or in a pipe. It also is smoked in blunts, which are cigars that have been emptied of tobacco and refilled with marijuana, often in combination with another drug. As a more concentrated form it is called hashish and as a sticky black liquid, hash oil. There are countless street terms for marijuana including pot, herb, weed, grass, widow, ganja, and hash. The main active chemical in marijuana is delta–9–tetrahydrocannabinol, also...show more content... Research findings for long–term marijuana use indicate some changes in the brain similar to those seen after long–term use of other major drugs of abuse. One study has indicated that a user's risk of heart attack more than quadruples in the first hour after smoking marijuana. Researchers suggest that such an effect might occur from marijuana's effects on blood pressure and heart rate and reduced oxygen–carrying capacity of blood. Even infrequent use can cause burning and stinging of the mouth and throat, often accompanied by a heavy cough. Someone who smokes marijuana regularly may have many of the same respiratory problems that tobacco smokers do, such as daily cough and phlegm production, more frequent acute chest illness, a heightened risk of lung infections, and a greater tendency to obstructed airways. Smoking marijuana increases the likelihood of developing cancer of the head or neck, and the more marijuana smoked the greater the increase. A study comparing 173 cancer patients and 176 healthy individuals produced strong evidence that marijuana smoking doubled or tripled the risk of these cancers.

Marijuana use also has the potential to promote cancer of the lungs and other parts of the respiratory tract because it contains irritants and carcinogens. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50 to 70 percent more

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