What is marijuana? Marijuana is herb plant; greenish grey is a mixture of dried leaves and flowers of cannabis sativa. marijuana can also be called; mary jane, bomber, aunty mary, jay, and so much more. Marijuana is the most abused drugs in the world; sometimes marijuana is combined with other drugs to get ‘’high’’ (high is a word used by people who mostly smoke, it’s the after feeling of exciting you get after smoking or taking drugs). Marijuana can be combined with heroine, PCP, crack, but it mostly combined with cocaine. Marijuana use was first written by a Chinese emperor sheng Nung in 2727 B.C. marijuana was spread to the western hemisphere in 1545, it was imported to Chile where it began its use as fibre. Some people think that because …show more content…
Marijuana stimulate the brain cells to release ‘’chemical dopamine’’ which can produce a feeling of euphoria (‘’HIGH’’), depending on the consumption, quality and quantity. It makes the users mood change and increases the sensory perception with colours appearing more vivid, noise sounding louder. ‘’munchies’’ is known as another effect which can cause the perception of time change or cause the increase of appetite in some marijuana …show more content…
These effects also can be to the user who has never taken marijuana before. Users who take large dose of marijuana may experience an acute psychosis, which include, loss of personal identity, hallucination and delusion, these are temporary reactions. Long lasting reactions can causer psychotic disorder, such as schizophrenia. There are also long and short effects of marijuana. The short effects include, short term memory problems, lowered reaction time, increased heart rate (risk of heart attack), very strange behaviour like; hearing, smelling and seeing things that are not even there, fear that you are being watched or followed, increased risk of stroke, problems with coordination (impairing safe driving or playing sports), sexual problems for male, seven times more likely to contact sexual transmitted infections than non-users for female. The long term effects include, decline in IQ (up to 8 points if prolonged use started in adolescent age), financial difficulties, increased welfare dependence, poor school performance and higher chance of dropping out, lower life satisfaction, relationship problems, intimate partner violence, great chances of being unemployed or not getting a job, antisocial behaviour including stealing money or lying, impaired thinking and ability