Common or Street Names for this drug include; weed,420, pot, bud, grass, herb, Mary Jane, reefer, “skunk”, gangster, chronic, ganja and fire.
What is Marijuana
What happens when the body becomes used to a drug and needs larger and larger amounts to produce the same effects?
What is tolerance
The percentage of adolescents who have a substance abuse disorder and have a co-occurring mental illness.
What 75%
Marijuana falls into these two drug categories
What is a depressant and a hallucinogen
What is an unwanted change in the body that is not related to the main purpose of a drug?
What is a side effect
This trend of having 5 or more drinks in a row during the last two weeks is leveling off after decades of decline.
What Binge Drinking
The number of States that currently legal to use recreational marijuana.
What is 9 states
What are two types of drug dependence
What is Physical dependence and Psychological dependence
It is against the law in all 50 states to sell cigarettes to anyone under the age of what?
What is 18 years old
Marijuana contains both these two compounds. One has mind-altering "high" and the other is not psychoactive meaning it does not change a person's state of mind when they use it.
What are THC and CBD
What are the four ways in which drugs enter the body?
What are By mouth, by injection, by inhalation, and by absorption
With almost a 1000% increase in use over the last 8 years, this new trend is popular among youth today.
What is vaping
In 1996, this state became the first U.S. state to legally allow medical marijuana for patients with a valid doctor’s recommendation.
What is California
The effects of this drug include:
Addiction, Drowsiness, Reduction of pain, Very uncomfortable withdrawal, Respiratory failure, and possible death
What are effects of pain killers/opiates
Of the teens and young adults who abuse prescription drugs, 75% of them get them from where?
What is friends and relatives