Taking a stand
...essened in these areas: attention, memory, and learning. They have trouble sustaining and shifting their attention in many aspects. They have trouble in registering information and organizing little details. Also using their information they have trouble with compared to ones that use no more than 3/30 days. As a result ones who smoke everyday functioning is reduced at an intellectual level all the time. These are very few of the statistics there are millions more and more are taken everyday and getting larger in number too. The Marijuana affects the brain a lot and it’s what shows it the most. The deltaTetraHydroCannabinol (THC) connects to specific sites called cannabinoid receptors on nerve cells in the brain. These receptors influence activity of cells and many of the cells that are attacked by the Marijuana are very important towards everyday life. They attack you pleasure, memory, thought, concentration, sensory, time perception and coordinated movements. You won’t remember little details or be able to concentrate very easily. It also makes you very dizzy and hard to walk. Why would anyone want to feel this way? This will change how people think about you just by these little factors. Some of the short-term effects in the brain alone are difficulty thinking and problem solving and like we said problems with memory and learning. Also, it increases heart rate. Marijuana also affects the heart and lungs strongly. With the heart it attacks quadruples in the first hour after smoking marijuana. It also affects your blood pressure. What happens is THC passes from lungs, into bloodstream, which carries it to organs throughout the body, but it reduces oxygen-carrying capacity of blood. Also it affects the lungs. It can cause burning and stinging of the mouth and throat, which is accompanied by heavy coughing. If you smoke regularly it has some of the same effects as regular cigarettes do. It causes daily cough and phlegm production and more frequent acute chest illness. Also a higher risk of lung infections and a greater tendency to obstructed airways. Now to you does this sound like a fun daily routine to live with on a regular basis? Not to us. A study of one hundred seventy three cancer patients and one hundred seventy six healthy was done and strong evidence that marijuana smoking doubled or tripled the risk of these cancers. Heavy Marijuana use affects the learning and your social behavior. From smoking it you can suffer depression. From personal experiences smoking it never helped it would make you feel happy and then you would be even lower then when you first started that first drag that day. Depression leads to do other things such as drinking and doing dangerous things to yourself such as cutting yourself. Also, Marijuana causes anxiety and personality disturbances. It changes someone so much they’re not themselves anymore and might never be. It also most definitely causes problems in everyday life. People will also fall behind in many things too. People have problems with accumulating intellectual matters and keeping their jobs. People who smoke Marijuana have a tendency to be tardy or absent a lot, and if in school they might be likely to fall behind. They also have problems with social skills and tend to keep to themselves or around people who mostly do drugs. Again their memory and learning is impaired and can last for days or weeks after acute effects of the drug to wear off. We have trouble with our memory and we don’t even smoke it so we can just imagine how much more it would damage it. Also, if people are planning on having a family they shouldn’t do Marijuana. In men their puberty is delayed and may affect the sperm count too. In women, their ovulation cycle is not regular and is affected major. Doctors suggest pregnant women not to use Marijuana or any other drugs that could be harmful to the...