CLASSIFICATION
Marijuana is considered mildly hallucinogenic due to it's affects on short term memory. Depending on the strain, marijuana can be either a stimulant or depressant. SHORT TERM EFFECTS
• Makes you high in minutes.
• loss of co-ordination
• effects decision making and judgment skills
• memory loss
• effects people differently so you can’t know what effects you personally will have.
LONG TERM EFFECTS
•Effects brain functions so you struggle to do complex tasks.
• repertory irritants can damage you lungs.
• Addiction
STREET NAMES
• pot
• grass
• weed
• skunk
how is it taken?
• Marijuana is used in many ways. The most common method is smoking loose marijuana rolled into a cigarette. Sometimes marijuana is smoked through a water pipe Others smoke cigars hollowed out and filled with the drug. And some users brew it as tea or mix it with food.
STATS
•According to a 2009 survey, about 7 percent of 8th-graders, 16 percent of 10th-graders, and 21 percent of 12th-graders had used marijuana in the month before the survey, marijuana use declined from the late 1990s through 2007, with a decrease in past-year use of more than 20 percent in all three grades combined from 2000 to 2007. Unfortunately, this trend appears to be slowing, and marijuana use remains at unacceptably high levels, as the most commonly used illegal drug.
