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Marijuana Addiction

Rehabscenter.com m arijuana addiction is experienced by more than 150,000 individuals. Who enter in to our treatment for their proclaimed addiction to marijuana? Marijuana addiction is characterized as compulsive, often uncontrollable marijuana craving, seeking. It is a dry, shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. Marijuana use is widespread among adolescents and young adults. The percentage of middle-school students who reported using marijuana increased throughout the early 1990s. In the past few years, according to the 2001 monitoring the Future Study, an annual survey of drug use among the Nation’s middle- and high-school students they had tried marijuana, and 9 percent were current users.

Marijuana smoke has a pungent and distinctive, usually sweet-and-sour odor. Marijuana affects memory. The drug can bring you in a state that you will feel mess up in school, before continuing, many marijuana users aren’t serious cases, and usually smoke only once or twice a month. If you use marijuana a lot, you could start to lose interest in how you look and how you’re getting along at school or work in sports, socially or with your friends. If you’re high on marijuana, you are more at risk to make mistakes that could embarrass or even hurt you. The main active chemical in marijuana is THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol). The membranes of certain nerve cells in the brain contain protein receptors that bind to THC . This doesn’t affect them so much socially or mentally. It is much more like having a beer now and then.

If you want someone to stop because of their health, do some serious researches on sites that are not regulated by the government or that carry a religious affiliation? Athletes could find their performance is off; timing, movements, and coordination are all affected by THC. Also, since marijuana can affect judgment and decision making, its use can lead to risky sexual behavior, resulting in exposure to sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Athletes could find their performance is off; timing, movements, and coordination are all affected by THC. Also, since marijuana can affect judgment and decision making, its use can lead to risky sexual behavior, resulting in exposure to sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Long-term studies of high school students and their patterns of drug use show that very few young people use other illegal drugs without first trying marijuana. For example, the risk of using cocaine is much greater for those who have tried marijuana than for those who have never tried it. Using marijuana puts children and teens in contact with people who are users and sellers of other drugs. So there is more of a risk that a marijuana user will be exposed to and urged to try more drugs.

 
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