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Effects on the Brain
How People Can Take Marijuana
Short and Long Term Effects
Miscellaneous
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Marijuana.
What is the most commonly used illegal drug in the world?
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A hallucinogen.
What type of drug is marijuana?
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Inhaled through a cigarette.
What is the most common way to take marijuana?
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Immediately after use.
When do short term affects occur in the body after taking marijuana?
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Pot, weed, grass.
What are some different names for marijuana?
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Dried flowers, seeds, and leaves of the Indian Hemp plant.
What is marijuana made from?
200
The chemical is called THC.
What is the chemical that causes the distortion in the brain?
200
Another way is through a pipe.
What is another way to inhale marijuana other than a cigarette?
200
Increased heart rate, lessened coordination and balance, and a dreamy, unreal state of mind.
What are the long term affects on the body after taking marijuana?
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Two to three hours.
When do short term effects of marijuana usually wear off?
300
The blood stream.
Where does THC enter, in order to travel to the brain?
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Through the bloodstream, usually seconds after inhaled or ingested.
How does the THC travel to the brain?
300
Most people replace the tobacco in the cigarette with marijuana.
What is a common way people smoke marijuana in a cigarette?
300
Big negative impact on your lungs, sore throats, and chest colds.
What are the long term affects on the body after taking marijuana?
300
No lung damage after using marijuana is permanent.
Do long term effects of marijuana such as lung damage, wear off?
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Marijuana can be smoked as a cigarette, smoked in a pipe, mixed with food, or brewed as tea.
What are different ways people can take the drug, marijuana?
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Heart rate, coordination, balance, and mind set.
What routines that the mind normally has no problem with, are effected after taking drugs?
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A blunt.
What is it called when you replace the tobacco in a cigarette with marijuana?
400
The THC distorts how the mind identifies the things around you.
What are the effects on the brain?
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This important statistic is true.
In a 2007 survey, people found that 14.4 million individuals in the U.S had smoked marijuana at least once during the past month. True or false?
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Marijuana is a hallucinogen in which distorts how the mind perceives the world we live in.
What type of drug is marijuana, and what does that drug do?
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The THC causes the distortion in the brain, so this changes how the mind perceives the world we live in.
What does THC do to your brain?
500
Sometimes it can be mixed with food and eaten, or brewed as tea.
What are less typical ways to take marijuana?
500
It has been found that one joint has as much exposure to cancer-producing chemicals as five cigarettes.
What important statistic has the effect related to cancer?
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You begin life with a certain number of brain cells, and when taking marijuana you kill them, and your body does not develop more.
What happens to your brain cells after taking marijuana?