Aspects of Marijuana
What does Marijuana look like?
Marijuana may be a gray, brown, or sometimes green mix of dried shredded leaves and flowers.
What are long-term effects of Marijuana?
You can get memory issues, anxiety, depression, lower dopamine production, lung damage, greater risk for heart attacks, diseases, and stroke
What is the age you are legally allowed to use Marijuana?
What are the most common street names of Marijuana?
Mary Jane, Pot, and Weed.
What is one drug you can go to from Marijuana?
Heroin
What does Marijuana come from?
Comes from the cannabis plant.
What are short term effects of Marijuana?
You feel like you are being watched, you see things that are not there, paranoia, severe anxiety.
What happens if you are found using Marijuana underage?
You will be fined $100 and your reputation will be destroyed making your future really hard.
What is the most uncommon street name for Marijuana?
Ganja
What can Marijuana double the effects of?
Alcohol, other drugs, medicine (in a bad way)
How can you smoke Marijuana?
Snort it, inhale it, or burn it and inhale the smoke.
What happens if you stop doing Marijuana?
You go through withdraw.
What happens to your IQ in the brain from Marijuana use?
Lose 8 IQ points, never gain them back.
Why should you know Marijuana street names?
To be able to identify Marijuana and help those in need and to report them.
When you have been using Marijuana for a long time and become dependent on it, can you stop completely using Marijuana?
Yes, but it will be very hard and will go through tons of bad thigs wanting you to go back to Marijuana.
How do you make Marijuana?
Dry processing, dry ice processing, water-based processing, combining pressure with heat, using nonflammable carbon dioxide solvents, using flammable solvents, including butane (lighter fluid), propane, ether or alcohol.
What does Marijuana do to the brain?
Creates more dopamine in the brain.
What happens to your lungs from Marijuana use?
Permanent lung damage, hard to recover from.
What should you do if you hear Marijuana street names?
Get away from where it is being said and report to the police.
Why do so many people end up using harder and worse drugs after Marijuana?
To get the same high they had with Marijuana at the beginning.
Why is Marijuana so bad?
The cannabis plant contains more than 100 compounds (or cannabinoids). These compounds include tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is impairing or mind-altering, as well as other active compounds, such as cannabidiol (CBD). CBD is not impairing, meaning it does not cause a “high”.
What happens to your body if you keep doing Marijuana?
Become dependent on Marijuana, cannot live without it, always have to smoke it.
What consequences do you receive if you get caught selling Marijuana?
A first marijuana offense should carry a fine of $100 or less and a court-ordered substance abuse program. Second offenses of underage consumption or possession mean the court will order the underage offender to complete a substance abuse program, complete a substance abuse assessment if “necessary and appropriate” and perform 24 hours of public service. Last, a third or subsequent offense carried a fine of up to $250, a substance abuse assessment with any treatment determined needed by the assessment and up to 36 hours of public service.
Why are street names made for marijuana?
It is to protect the activities of the people who deal and use illegal drugs and to make it harder to pin down what the illegal substance may be. It also disassociates the drug with its medical and/or criminal names.
Can Marijuana help you in some way?
If Marijuana is used medically, it can help you out until you overdose it.