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Marijuana What Is It? How Is It Used?: Presentation By: Zack Hauser

Marijuana is a greenish-gray mixture of dried cannabis plant leaves and flowers that is commonly smoked, eaten, or brewed into tea. When smoked or consumed, THC passes quickly into the bloodstream and binds to receptors in the brain, producing short-term effects like feeling high. Long-term heavy use during teenage years can negatively impact brain development and lead to reduced cognitive abilities and IQ. Around 30% of users may develop dependency issues and addiction if use continues into adulthood and interferes with daily life.

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Marijuana What Is It? How Is It Used?: Presentation By: Zack Hauser

Marijuana is a greenish-gray mixture of dried cannabis plant leaves and flowers that is commonly smoked, eaten, or brewed into tea. When smoked or consumed, THC passes quickly into the bloodstream and binds to receptors in the brain, producing short-term effects like feeling high. Long-term heavy use during teenage years can negatively impact brain development and lead to reduced cognitive abilities and IQ. Around 30% of users may develop dependency issues and addiction if use continues into adulthood and interferes with daily life.

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Marijuana  What is it?  How is it Used? 


​Marijuana—alsocalled weed, herb, Users smoke marijuana in
pot, grass, bud, ganja, Mary Jane, and hand-rolled cigarettes called joints;
a vast number of other slang many use pipes, water pipes
terms—is a greenish-gray mixture of (sometimes called bongs), or
the dried, shredded leaves and marijuana cigars called blunts (often
flowers of Cannabis sativa-- the hemp made by slicing open cigars and
plant. replacing some or all of the tobacco
with marijuana). Marijuana can also
be used to brew tea and, particularly
when it is sold or consumed for
medicinal purposes, is frequently
mixed into foods ("edibles") such as
brownies, cookies, or candies. In
addition, concentrated resins
containing high doses of marijuana’s
active ingredients, including
honey-like "hash oil," waxy "budder,"
and hard amber-like "shatter," are
  increasingly popular among both
  recreational and medical users
 
 
 
 
Presentation by: Zack Hauser 
 

Short term Effects  Long term Effects  Addictive or Not? 


​When a person smokes marijuana, ​Marijuana
also affects brain ​Contrary to common belief,
THC quickly passes from the lungs development. When marijuana users marijuana can be addictive. Research
into the bloodstream. The blood begin using as teenagers, the drug suggests that 30 percent of users
carries the chemical to the brain and may reduce thinking, memory, and may develop some degree of problem
other organs throughout the body. learning functions and affect how the use, which can lead to dependence
The body absorbs THC more slowly brain builds connections between the and in severe cases takes the form of
when the person eats or drinks it. In areas necessary for these functions. addiction.9 People who begin using
that case, the user generally feels the marijuana before age 18 are 4 to 7
effects after 30 minutes to 1 hour. Marijuana’s effects on these abilities times more like than adults to
may last a long time or even be develop problem use.10 Dependence
THC acts on specific brain cell permanent. becomes addiction when the person
receptors that ordinarily react to can't stop using marijuana even
natural THC-like chemicals in the For example, a study showed that though it interferes with his or her
brain. These natural chemicals play a people who started smoking daily life.
role in normal brain development and marijuana heavily in their teens and
function. had an ongoing cannabis use
disorder lost an average of eight IQ
Marijuana overactivates parts of the points between ages 13 and 38. The
brain that contain the highest number lost mental abilities did not fully
of these receptors. This causes the return in those who quit marijuana as
"high" that users feel. adults. Those who started smoking
marijuana as adults did not show
notable IQ declines.

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