... York State Journal of Medicine) Some who smoke marijuana feel no effects; others feel relaxed and sociable, tend to laugh a great deal, and have a profound loss of the sense of time. Characteristically, those under the influence of marijuana show bad coordination and impaired ability to perform skilled acts. Still others experience a wide range of emotions including feelings of ... experiences such as; increased perception of listening to music, sexual intercourse, or eating food characterize the feeling of being high. Each individual's perception of a high differs greatly. Some common un...

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... to quit smoking pot showed that the longer a person smoked pot, the affects of memory and attention span worsened. The certainty of the tests is unknown as Dr. Harrison Pope notes, "These long-term users may have been worse off in the first place, before they ever smoked marijuana- (Cloud 64). The possibility of long term damage to a marijuana user's brain ... the highest in the country, filling up jails, using up taxpayers' money: More than five million Americans were arrested for marijuana offenses in the 1990s, making it the fifth most common criminal offense in the United States. Ov...

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... to quit smoking pot showed that the longer a person smoked pot, the affects of memory and attention span worsened. The certainty of the tests is unknown as Dr. Harrison Pope notes, "These long-term users may have been worse off in the first place, before they ever smoked marijuana- (Cloud 64). The possibility of long term damage to a marijuana user's brain ... the highest in the country, filling up jails, using up taxpayers' money: More than five million Americans were arrested for marijuana offenses in the 1990s, making it the fifth most common criminal offense in the United States. Ov...

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