Cannabis smoking

Institute. "Learn About Marijuana: Factsheets: What Is Cannabis?" Learn About Marijuana: Factsheets: What Is Cannabis? University of Washington Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, June 2013. Web. 23 Apr. 2015. The University of Washington Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute’s Factsheet What is Cannabis? makes science-based information about the cannabis sativa plant available for the public. The Factsheet informs the reader about the composition of cannabis and how it is produced into its three…

Regular marijuana users report lower life satisfaction, more negative effects than non-users in the areas of career, social, mental, and physical health (Gruber, Pope, Hudson, & Yurgelun-Todd, 2003). Also known as amotivational syndrome, this is characterized by a significantly decreased zeal for life and goals, lacking the energy to function in day-to-day tasks, and can result in all manner of difficulties in living, including relationships, employment, academics, personal appearance and…

Imagine your son is really sick and the only thing that can heal his sickness is marijuana. So you drive to Colorado and purchase a bag of marijuana to help his sickness, but on your way back you get arrested for transporting illegal drugs and now you have to do some time for trying to save someone's life. Now you ask yourself should marijuana be legalized? Legalized marijuana should be legalized to the society because it is not harmful in a lot of ways such as relieving certain types of pains…

The legalization of marijuana in the United States is a very controversial topic. The legalization of cannabis would: boost revenue, allow wider access for medical use, increase personal freedoms, promote more effective criminal justice and law enforcement, and permit safety controls on the substance. Prohibition on cannabis costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year. Legalizing marijuana and establishing appropriate regulations for the use and distribution of marijuana, would allow for…

The movie Reefer Madness was produced in the 1930s as propaganda, in order to make people believe that smoking marijuana would make them go insane or commit violent crimes. There was no proof of the accusations, but it scared enough people to keep them from smoking marijuana. The movie was intended to give marijuana a negative reputation, and it succeeded. In today’s society there is a stigma surrounding the use of marijuana, which I believe the movie helped to create. Over the last hundred…

“blackouts” have also been reported after marijuana use. Marijuana use also impairs judgement which leads to risky behaviors such as unprotected sex or driving while intoxicated which may result in motor vehicle accidents ( this increases further if cannabis is consumed with doses of alcohol) (L. Degenhardt & Hall,…

are very promising, and much exciting research is proceeding at a rapid pace” (3). The use of marijuana dates back to 6000 B.C., when China used cannabis seeds in a variety of foods. Cannabis was used widely around the world until the 1900’s when marijuana became illegal in the United States, Britain, and Greece. According to David Bearman, “Cannabis was in the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) [the nongovernmental, official public standards setting authority for prescription and…

Devils lettuce, weed, reefer, cannabis, marijuana, ever heard of it? Reefer is a hallucinogen that makes you feel high. You can tell someone has smoked reefer if they have bloodshot eyes, a fast heart rate, drowsiness, and lack of coordination. It is a harmless drug, and it needs to be more available to the general population. The problem people run into when smoking reefer is not being able to have it or get it. Even though weed is illegal people think it is common, but it is harder to get…

“There is a contract with every cigarette” I hear from my tv, as I catch the end of an Real Cost commercial while looking out of my window catching of my mom smoking a cigarette as she waters the flowers. Cigarettes have been around for generation. Just like everything else the old goes out and in comes the new. This has finally applied to cigarettes as modern technology found its replacement. Cigarettes are now being replaced by the new sensations of electronic cigarettes and personal…

along with all the other more dangerous drugs, under the same category as them. But if people would take a step back and stop looking at cannabis as a drug, and look past it being illegal, would it make people think differently about it? I believe that if people knew of all the benefits we would gain from it being legal, they might feel differently…