Facts
The most popular illegal drug used in the United States today.
What is Marijuana?
True or False: Marijuana has been shown to cause mental illness.
What is true?
Emotional effects of Marijuana.
What is constant depressed mood, increased anxiety, and aggression?
Marijuana is derived from this plant
What is a Cannabis Plant?
Depression from Marijuana usually starts during the ____ ____.
What are the teen years?
True or False: Marijuana is not linked to school failure.
What is false?
Another name for a psychotic episode caused by marijuana
What is psychosis?
4 nicknames or slang names for Marijuana.
What are weed, pot, grass, dope, herb, Mary jane?
This cannabinoid is the main cause for addiction
What is THC?
True or False: Teens do more marijuana than more than any other drug combined.
What is True?
Marijuana can negatively impact the development of this part of the body.
What is the brain?
Two ways marijuana can be used.
What is smoked as a cigarette or in a pipe or bong. It is also smoked in blunts, and mixed with foods or brewed as a tea?
In the ____, THC connects to specific sites called cannabinoid receptors on nerve cells and influences the activity of those cells.
What is the brain?
True or False: The amount of Marijuana you consume doesn't affect how long you stay "high" for.
What is false?
Marijuana can raise blood pressure and heart rate, potentially increasing the risk of heart problems. These are also know as _____ _____.
What are Cardiovascular Effects?
This is what marijuana looks like.
What is dry, shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves from the Cannabis plant?
Around this many people are arrested for possession of marijuana each year
What is 3 quarters of a million or 750,000?
True or False: Marijuana has been proven helpful for treating symptoms of many medical conditions.
What is true?
One way medical marijuana is good.
What is pain relief, improved sleep, reduced nausea, and increased appetite?
The two main cannabinoids in marijuana
What are THC and CBD?