MarijuanaBy: Evan Chambers &Brenden Hartman

Street Names!Weed Herb GreenGanja

Grass Reefer Shake Bud Hemp Dope

Kush Hydro How it’s made!It is grown in the Summer season, or is grown under artificial lighting. When the plant is harvested it’s hung upside down for about a week in a dark room. Then after a week the Buds on the stem are trimmed.

Short Term Effects1.sleepiness and increased hunger 2. altered sense of time 3. impaired or reduced short-term memory 4.increased heart rate 5.bloodshot eyes

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4. Has some of the same cancer-causing effects as cigarettes.

1. Slows down the Brain

3. Higher Percent of getting in a Car accident.

2. Gets you Easily distracted

Long-term effects!

1. Over 83 Million people over the age of twelve have smoked Marijuana2. 20% of 8th graders have used Marijuana3. 50% of 12th graders have used Marijuana4. 53% of juvenile male and 38 percent of juvenile female arrestees tested positive for marijuana.

Marijuana Use!

Important facts about marijuana

1.) marijuana has 421 chemicals.2.) it is stronger than it was 10 years ago

3.) marijuana is far worse to your lungs than tobacco

4.) Marijuana damages the reproductive system

5.) marijuana cause brain damage and a behavioral disorder know as a motivational

syndrome 6.) any use of marijuana is abuse and

marijuana has no medical value what so ever

What marijuana leads to

• Bad habits• It leads to harder drugs• It usually leads to a bad life• Leads to other addictions• Leads to having not a lot of money cause you

spent it on a dose of marijuana

What marijuana does for you and many other ways

1.) if you smoke marijuana daily that’s all you think about is getting high

2.) marijuana makes you stink.3.) it makes you have a real bad cough like a

chronic cough.4.) it will make you lazy and often wanting to

eat.5.) it will make you gain weight.

It all started one summer day on a street corner in Yonkers, New York, when Alby was 13. “You need to get your mind right. Hit this blunt,” a friend said.Alby didn’t have the strength to say no. He felt he had to smoke the blunt (a cigar hollowed out and refilled with marijuana) to fit in. He desperately wanted to belong.His parents had never been there for him. They were drug addicts themselves and couldn’t handle the demands of parenting. So, Alby bounced from a foster home to his grandmother’s to a group home. When he was about 14, his mother died.“I wasn’t supposed to go through this,” Alby says. “I had a grudge against the world.”After trying marijuana (also called weed, grass, pot, herb, boom, Mary Jane, and chronic) to fit in, Alby kept abusing the drug because he enjoyed the intoxicated feeling marijuana creates. “It had me in another state of mind,” he says. “I was relaxed. All my problems seemed like they were disappearing.”

Over the next 5 years, Alby smoked marijuana every day, several times a day. He went to school high and eventually dropped out. “I was losing focus. My attention went from 100 to 0. I was depressed,” he says.Despite the consequences, Alby kept smoking marijuana. In fact, he was willing to do anything to get high.Eventually, he started dealing drugs to support his habit. That’s what landed him in a maximum-security jail.

At 18, Alby was living a nightmare behind bars. He felt he was in constant physical danger. “I saw people get stabbed,” he toldScholastic. And he experienced daily indignities. “I couldn’t eat the food they served. The potatoes were like blocks and the meat didn’t taste like meat,” he says.Believe it or not, getting arrested was probably the best thing that could have happened to Alby. It got him into treatment for his drug problem.When we spoke to Alby, he was 1 month into his recovery at a drug rehabilitation center in Westchester, New York.

Alby’s Story

http://www.angelfire.com/me5/healthproject/users.html

http://www.drug-rehab.com/marijuana-addiction.htm

http://www.drugabuse.gov/infofacts/marijuana.html

http://www.acde.org/common/Marijana.htm

http://www.michaelshouse.com/marijuana-addiction/street-names-for-marijuana.html

http://www.drugstory.org/feature/erica.asp

Websites!

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Evan Chambers & Brenden Hartmen

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