Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug or "street drug". Marijuana is also known as bud, dope, and weed. It is a greenish plant that is dried and smoked in many different ways. Smokers make weed cigarettes (joints), smoke from a pipe, or even a bong (a vase like device that uses water). It contains the drug THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), which gives you the feeling known as a "high". The higher the THC content the more intense "high" a smoker receives. This feeling makes you sleepy, hungry and even paranoid of your surroundings. Then you get what every drug has and that is the side effects. These effects include: problems with memory and learning, distorted perception, difficulty in thinking and problem solving, loss of coordination, increased heart rate, and anxiety.

Wouldn't these effects listed scare off potential users? It doesn'

Getting a hand on some bud is almost as easy as trying to find chocolate, you can get it almost anywhere; if it is from a friend from school to a bum off the streets. The drug is always just a phone call away. However, it will cost you though. Prices of marijuana range from 100 to 800 dollars for an ounce. So if a teen was to buy about three ounces a year it could add up to be a semester of college. Where is such a drug that is highly illegal come from? The biggest import comes from Mexico were you get the low grade marijuana. Low grade bud is bud with a THC level one to six percent. Then there is you high potency bud or high grade that comes from Canada. This type of marijuana is grown indoors with special treatment the helps the THC levels raise to 15 to 30 percent. This dope however will cost you more because of the numbers of hours are spent nurturing the plant to make it high quality. The marijuana that comes from Canada is in demand more and more because people in America are asking for the bud with the highest THC levels to get the most intense high. These foreign countries get the drug to America in many different ways. Most of the marijuana smuggled into the United States is concealed in vehicles- often in false compartments- or hidden in shipment of legitimate agricultural

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