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Drugs are definitely an epidemic in the world. People partake in lots of different types for many different reasons. Some are legal and prescribed by doctors, and others are not. Some drugs can be helpful but are overused, and others have no practical use at all but to get high. Marijuana is one drug that can have both positive and negative factors.
Marijuana is a very commonly used drug. It goes by many names including pot, grass, cannabis, weed, hemp, hash, marijuana, ganja, mary jane, and so many others. Some people do it to try to feel better when they feel like crap or when they just wanna have fun. Others may use it as a coping mechanism. It’s used for cancer patients. Cannabis is used to help treat cancer patients. It doesn’t actually reduce cancer or kill it, but it supplies helpful attributes such as telling your body not to vomit so it can keep its food while on other treatments, reduces pain, reduces anxiety, and helps control seizures. I would say that based on these examples weed doesn’t look as bad as people make it out to be.
While there are some good aspects to the pot, they also come along with many negatives. Marijuana can be good in small prescribed dosages, but many people overuse it which can cause many problems even sometimes fatal ones. Smoking weed can cause trouble thinking or remembering, a faster heart rate, slow coordination, and an increase in appetite. It can cause issues with breathing and with your lungs. The biggest negative about it weed is it makes your brain produce “happy feelings”, and that tells your brain it no longer needs to make the hormone so people need to keep using it to feel good. Which can lead to people trying harder, more powerful drugs to get that sensation.
Lots of people smoke weed around the world, but just in the US, there are approximately 37 million people that use it. Of these people, many are believed to turn to harder drugs to get that original high. Teenagers who start because they think it’s cool or its there trend can grow up to be unsuccessful or stunted. Smoking marijuana at such a young age can permanently stunt your brain from being able to make and build connections later in life. When people choose to smoke they are signing up for these consequences some without even knowing it.
There are many harmful drugs some drugs are only harmful because they are abused. There are drugs that can be useful for medicinal purposes. Marijuana is included, but people underplay the serious problems this drug can have on you. While weed can have both positive and negative effects it still continues to be a problem with today's youth.
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