How it works
Effects on the Body
Common Myths
Connecticut Rules and Regulations
UConn Rules and Regulations
100
The target area of the body for marijuana
What is the brain?
100
The part of the body affected most by smoking marijuana.
What is the brain?
100
Some people believe falsely that this mental drive cannot be induced by marijuana like it is by alcohol and cigarettes.
What is addiction/dependence?
100
The only legal way to posses marijuana in Connecticut.
What is medical use?
100
The amount of marijuana you can posses in a residential dorm.
What is none?
200
The way in which marijuana reached the brain.
What is the blood stream?
200
The second part of the body affected most affected by marijuana.
What are the lungs (cardiopulmonary system)?
200
Something that you should never do when you're high despite marijuana not being as imperative as alcohol.
What is driving?
200
The belief that there is no law against owning drug paraphernalia. (T/F)
What is false?
200
What an RA is required to do if they smell marijuana on the floor.
What is call 911?
300
The marijuana plant.
What is cannabis?
300
These lung problems, common for heavy tobacco smokers, can also be caused by marijuana.
What is COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema?
300
Something that can be caused by marijuana just like cigarettes since both contain carcinogens.
What is cancer?
300
The act of planning to/selling marijuana which is seen differently from possession.
What is distribution?
300
The belief that state regulations overrule university regulations. (T/F)
What is false?
400
The main, psychoactive drug in marijuana.
What is THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol)?
400
The length of time that marijuana remains detectable in your body.
What is several days to over a week?
400
The belief that marijuana only targets the specific area of the brain dealing with pleasure (T/F)
What is false? Cannabinoid receptors are located throughout the brain, including in areas dealing with memory, concentration and sensation.
400
The premise that since Connecticut has decriminalized marijuana possession of less than an ounce, there is no consequence (T/F)
What is false? It is still a civil violation and leads to fines.
400
A group of things such as bongs that despite not being drugs are still prohibited and can be confiscated as evidence.
What is drug-related paraphernalia?
500
THCs relationship to anandamide, a normal neurotransmitter.
What is an agonist (chemical that binds to a receptor and activates the receptor to produce a biological response)?
500
The wide category of disorders that can be caused by heavy marijuana use since THC targets the brain.
What are mental disorders?
500
The term for the use of marijuana and alcohol at the same time, which exponentially increases the likelihood of dangerous effects.
What is polydrug use?
500
Something that should be on any legal marijuana.
What is a Tax Stamp?
500
A building that South Campus is close to, increasing the penalties of drug possession relative to other parts of campus.
What is the E.O. Smith High School?
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