plant Cannabis Sativa, smoked or eaten for its hallucinogenic and

pleasure-giving effects. The psychoactive ingredient of marijuana,

tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), is concentrated in the flowering tops of the

hemp plant; hashish, a drug prepared from the plant resin, has about eight

times more THC than marijuana. Hemp grows throughout temperate regions,

with the more potent varieties produced in dry, hot, upland climates. Expect

for limited medical purposes, cultivating hemp for marijuana is illegal in all

Marijuana has a lot of slang names including pot, grass, weed, hash,

and about 200 other names. Marijuana is by far the world's most commonly

used illicit drug and far more dangerous than most users realize. So, there is

just cause for alarm when adolescent marijuana use increases, as it did in the

mid-1990's, and the age at which youngsters first experiment with pot starts

Many users describe two phases of marijuana intoxication: initial

stimulation, giddiness, and euphoria, followed by sedation and tranquillity.

Mood changes are often accompanied by altered perceptions of time and

alcoholism, seizures, pain, the nausea produced by anti-cancer medications,

compromised judgment or marijuana's disinhibiting effects, leaves them

and glaucoma. Its usefulness for glaucoma patients more doubtful.

brewed into tea or mixed in baked products (cookies or brownies). Their

"joints." Some users will slice open and hollow out cigars, replacing the

interpersonal coping skills or make appropriate life-style choices. Thus,

well established medical use today. Experimental work has been done using

's bodily dimensions. The thinking processes become

Marijuana is, by itself, a high risk substance for adolescents. More than

drug consumed and the circumstances under which it is taken. Marijuana and

These effects can be quite different, however, depending on the amount of

substance and will accumulate in fatty tissues in the liver, lungs, testes, and

non-pot smoking peers. And 60 percent of youngsters who use marijuana

levels may be five to ten times higher than crude Marijuana's.

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