Myths
Does marijuana help people concentrate and focus?
What is marijuana impairing thinking?
Inability to remember events for a period of time, often due to brain injury, illness, or the effects of drugs or alcohol.
What is memory loss?
The use of marijuana can lead to doing poorly in what?
What is doing poorly in school work or at work.
Marijuana use at parties
What is celebration?
Is marijuana as bad for you as tobacco?
What is the lung problems that are found in both drugs?
Intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Fast heart rate, rapid breathing, sweating, and feeling tired may occur.
What is anxiety?
The long term use of marijuana can lead to what being impaired?
Marijuana use in social settings
What is confidence?
Marijuana isn't addictive.
What is marijuana is addictive.
Refers to the ability to use knowledge, facts, and data to effectively solve problems
What is thinking and problem-solving?
The long term use of marijuana can cause what to your body?
What is lung damage.
Organ affected by marijuana used for breathing
What is the lungs?
Marijuana affects only the person who uses it.
What is marijuana can affect others.
The study found that students on marijuana lowered what?
What is lowering math and verbal skills.
The long term use of marijuana has been linked to what risky behavior?
What is risky sexual behavior.
The action of delaying or postponing something.
What is procrastination?
Because marijuana is natural, can it hurt your body or not?
What is contains the same chemicals found in tobacco that cause cancer!
The feelings of severe despondency and dejection.
Depression
The using of marijuana can result in a set of symptoms called what?
What is amotivational symptoms
The active ingredient in marijuana; a chemical that acts on parts of the brain that influence feelings, thoughts, memory, concentration, sense of time, and movement.
What is THC?