What Are they?
What Is Cannabis?
It is a plant, used for or consumed through smoking or vaping. It alters mood, thought and behaviour
Smoking
What is A depressant?
Age 25
Since the human brain, develops by the age of 25, using marijuana as a teen can cause your brain to suffer permanent issues
Affect on Heart Rate
Within just minutes of consuming such drugs, can increase your heart rate which causes a pounding feeling in your chest. Can also lead to sudden heart attacks too
What is Marijuana?
Is also known as cannabis or weed. It refers to also the dried flowers and leaves of the Cannabis Sativa plant.
What are Edibles?
This is another form of consuming marijuana and cannabis. Since this is method which requires the drug to pass through the digestive system, the drug affect is slowed down to feel than compared to directly smoking
Muscle Relaxation
This symptom of using marijuana. Due to it being a depressant, it slows down/depresses the signals that aid to keep your muscle alert
What is Rapid Eye Movement?
Using Marijuana frequently can interfere with sleep, which is essential for growth especially for teens. Without sleep, it can be difficult to focus in class, and process the information being taught to you.
What are blood shot eyes?
THC can cause the blood vessels of your eyes to dilate potentially affecting the vision. Also known as red eyes.
What is the Prefontal Cortex?
How Is Cannabis Used?
Can be smoked, vaped or even as Edibles. It has some medical uses such as using it for certain chronic pain
Depressant Risks
Over using substances can cause the user to become addicted or develop a dependence for them. Overdose can lead to slow reaction time and memory. This action can also lead to potential drug addiction as well as toxicity to death.
Driving
Consuming Cannabis or Marijuana, can increase the amount of accidents due to slower reaction time
What is Paranoia?
High dose of THC can put the consumer on the risk of having feeling of sudden mistrust and fear of others around them. It can result them in straining relations with family and friends.
Components Of Cannbis
1. THC- Cause of the Impairment or Makes you feel high
2. CBD (Cannabidiol)- Reliefs Pain
Vaping
This method requires a machine or device which heats the drug and releases the flavor in your mouth through a mist
Marijuana as A Depressant
Weed can as act as depressant by sedating the brain. While, some people use it for stress relief, but long term it can increase the depression and anxiety.
Having Drugs
This is also known as Possession. It is one of the reason why teens get introuble with the law because of having drugs in their bags or pockets
What is a Panic Attack?
With a raising heart rate, the feeling of panic might come over the consumer, which fails the feeling of relaxing that cannabis or marijuana should use should bring you. New or short term users may experience such sensation.
What is CBD?
This is a plant often used for medical purposes but unlike cannabis they are not "high"
Topicals?
Another method of consuming cannabis. However, this method is applying cannabis lotions or oils directly on the skin. These are used to relieve pain and less intended for taking it in for substance abuse
What is GABA?
When using cannabis, it also acts like a depressant, because it increases the activity of the specific part of the brain. This chemical of the brain, plays a role in calming the body and helping it stay relaxed.
What is Chronic Bronchitis?
What is Greening Out?
This a toxic reaction, due to the overdose of THC. It results in extreme dizziness and vomiting