Marijuana is the most-used illegal drug in the United States.com, more than 71 million Americans over the age of 12 admitted to using marijuana at least once in their lifetime. Many people think marijuana is a harmless drug, but some people who use marijuana regularly can become dependent and it may contribute to the use of other drugs. Marijuana can effect people's learning processes, motivation, and health. .
Marijuana abuse has been shown to affect people's learning processes. An active ingredient called Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol or THC is founded in marijuana. This ingredient affects the nerves cells in the brain where memories are formed. THC makes it hard for people to make appropriate decisions, solve problems, and learn new skills. Marijuana may cause people to have trouble handling simple tasks, such as riding a bike. Marijuana can affect people's reaction time, they could be involved in auto accident or maybe involved in unsafe sexual behavior. Marijuana abuse can reduce people's abilities to perform tasks requiring concentration and coordination, such as driving a car. People may also find it hard to study under the influence of marijuana. Marijuana users also feel a lack of motivation.
Lack of motivation is a common affect in marijuana abuse. Marijuana users tend to think negatively about themselves. Some people feel they cannot achieve anything in life. Many people use marijuana to deal with anxiety, anger, depression, and boredom, however, marijuana may only enhance their problems. Marijuana users may have a lack of concern about how they look or how they portray themselves in public. Marijuana users may perform poorly in school or even at work. Health problems are another effect that marijuana have on a person.
Using marijuana regularly can have the same affects that tobacco has on a person. Someone who smokes five joints a week may be taking in as many cancer-causing chemicals as someone who smokes a pack of cigarettes every day.
Marijuana-Harmless? Is marijuana harmless? ... The outcomes of most of these surveys and experiments contribute to the point of view that marijuana is nearly harmless or harmless, and that the laws condemning the possession and use of marijuana should be reduced. ... Marijuana, harmless, it seems so. ...
The often harmless, more [antibiotic] susceptible, bacteria are usually killed or diminished as well. ... The possible outcome of under-use of antibiotics is that more of the harmless, susceptible bacteria are eliminated, giving rise to antibiotic resistant populations. Over-use, plainly stated, kills off the harmless, susceptible bacteria, leaving a large antibiotic resistant populace. ... Thus, killing off multitudes of harmless, yet needed, susceptible bacteria. ...
Scout is innocent and harmless and yet she has to cope with the inequities in the world around her. ... The metaphor extended throughout the story is of a mockingbird being an innocent and harmless creature. ... At the start of the novel, Boo Radley is described as a "malevolent phantom," although it becomes obvious through the course of the novel that he is harmless and acutally a kind and giving person (8). ...
A mockingbird is a harmless bird that makes the world more pleasant with its song. ... Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and mockingbirds are all harmless. ... So everything assumed to be harmful, turned out to be more harmless. I didn't think the conclusion was going to turn out the way it did, though I still don't fully understand it, I think the point was that, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley are both the mockingbirds, Tom and Boo are harmless like mockingbirds. All three creatures are assumed harmful, but turned out to be harmless. ...
To kill a mockingbird Harper Lee This book is not only recommended by me, but it is, in fact, named the best book of the century. a mockingbird is a harmless creature and does nothing but sing and bring happiness to the world. Harper Lee takes the title for her novel from this passage becau...
What is a pedifile? A pedifile is another word for child molester. Should pedifiles be treated as criminals, people with illnesses or both? I believe that pedifiles should be treated as criminals and people with illnesses. They should be treated as criminals because they are doing wrong ...
Some of the first violent cartoons seem very harmless when compared with many that exist today. ... This made it possible for children viewers to create ways to deal with problems, and the "harmless" way to do this was sometimes violent. ...
Wit and Religious Imagery in "The Flea" In his funny little poem "The Flea," John Donne merges wit with religious imagery in an attempt to convince a woman to sleep with him. In the first stanza Donne cleverly uses the humorous image of an insignificant flea that has just sucked the blood of both...
Wit and Religious Imagery in "The Flea" In his funny little poem "The Flea," John Donne merges wit with religious imagery in an attempt to convince a woman to sleep with him. In the first stanza Donne cleverly uses the humorous image of an insignificant flea that has just sucked the blood of bot...