Marajuana Use

Short and Long Term Effects of Marijuana Use
Marijuana comes from the cannabis sativa plant. The plant is a native to central China. It is one of the oldest nonfood crops ever grown by man or women. The drug was used as a pain killer during operations.
It has been used for thousands of years from the ancient Chinese to the ancient Egyptians
Marijuana has a chemical called THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) which the user feel a buzz. Which causes damage to your lungs, because it contains cancer causing agents. THC stays in your body long after you use it, at least thirty-five days. THC is the reason the marijuana is classified as a psychotropic drug.
Marijuana came to the Unites States in the 1800’s as a medicine as well, it was sold in liquid form, and as a herbal package it was a drug to used to get rid of migraine headaches, asthma ,epilepsy, insomnia, chronic bronchitis, and gonorrhea.
In 1787 the French army of emperor Napoleon invaded Egypt, and discovered the Cannabis plant and began to use it themselves, it was strongly suggested by Napoleon to use the drug. His troops began to drink the tea from the boiled stems of the plant realizing the visual effects of Marijuana.
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By 1931, twenty-nine states had outlawed Marijuana. The government had passed its own laws, the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. Which put a steep tax on the drug, so most people at the time could not purchase the drug. Shortly after World War II marijuana had an explosion; it increased more than 70 percent. Children born after the war were called the baby boomers, found drugs as a way to prove they were different form there parents.

It causes constant soar throats and coughing. Recently more kinds of deadly cancers have been diagnosed to young marijuana smokers aged twenty-six to thirty. The is found on your tongue, tonsils, sinus, larynx and your lungs. A study shows that regular pot smokers are getting lung cancer at a much younger age then someone who is like forty-fifty years old. It took scientist fifty years to link cigarette smoking with lung cancer. They are still in the early stages of doing the same with marijuana, given the evidence; it is clear that pot smoking poses

A serious health risk to your lungs. It also affects your short and long term memory. It makes your grades in school fall it makes you lazy it also screws up your balance and coordination. It also effects your driving if you have smoked pot and then drove you have noticed that everything seems different. Smo