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Marijuana has been around for thousands of years and has been used for a variety of purposes by many different societies. Marijuana is the 4th most commonly used drug in the world behind caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine. Some of the uses for cannabis, marijuana’s genus name, included making clothes and rope, communicating with spirits, treating indigestion, menstrual cramps, and insomnia. While the other three are legal in the United States, marijuana is not. ... The exact composition of marijuana cannot be known because it is a plant and each individual plant has a different composition due to species, growing conditions, age and sex of the plant. The effects of marijuana vary so much between people and can be altered by even the slightest physical differences that there is no way to predict which of the many effects will occur.(Guterman, 2002)
Emergency room visits due to marijuana use soared to more than 47,100 in 1995. Reasons for needing emergency care included poisoning from experience with “bad pot”, breathing problems due to irritated lungs and breathing passages, tremors, injuries from marijuana-related accidents, and various others. It is recorded that 40-60% of all marijuana users experience the negative effects of marijuana. ... There are more than 500 different chemicals in marijuana smoke, 60 of which are unique to the plant, and the majority of the time filters aren’t used.
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