Cannabis better know as marijuana is a psychoactive drug from the cannabis plant that is intended for medical or recreational use. The main component of cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is only one of 483 known compounds in cannabis. Cannabis can be used in multiple ways including smoking, vaporizing, consuming it within food, or as an extract typically in an oil form. Cannabis is a drug that can be tracked back to as early as 3rd millennium BC in common use among many groups of people in a variety of forms. It wasn't until the early 20th century that laws making cannabis illegal started to come about in most countries around the world. The usage of cannabis has recently made another peak in the prevalence amongst most Americans. …show more content…
Cannabis use weakens the relationships between pain and depression with pain and anxiety causing a decreased self-efficacy in cannabis users.2 A low self- efficacy has been proven to put individuals in a higher risk group for higher symptom burdens and increased substance use, such as opioids.2 While there are multiple negative results from studies on cannabis there are also many researchers and physicians that believe cannabis has many positive contributions to offer to the biological make up of the human body. Frequent cannabis users have a heightened levels of openness to experience which in return allows them to demonstrate a more enhanced creativity compared to someone who isn’t a user of cannabis.7 This heightened sense is typically a positive thing7, however, this enhanced level of creativity or openness to new experiences is what can cause the willingness to take a more intense drugs, like opioids.2 It is becoming a concern that cannabis shouldn't be taken so lightly as it recently has