... influence in on the brain. Marijuana is mind altering, in other words it changes how your brain works. In short term use, marijuana impairs perception, judgment, thinking, memory and learning. Memory impairs may occur up to six weeks after your last use. In addition, marijuana use has many ... indirect effects on health. Its effects on coordination, perception, and judgment means that it causes a number of accidents, vehicular and otherwise. Also marijuana, just as cigarettes do, contain the increase in spreading lung ... this drug actually was. Many people find it hard to perform ordin...

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... just might look bad. To society, pot has a bad image. It makes you act uncontrollably and do things that our society frowns upon. It also inhibits your memory and sense of perception, as well as causing people to become abusive and do things that they normally wouldn't do. The issue of smoking also scares people. By smoking any substance you are hurting ... near our kids and in our society. Our Society makes marijuana look and seem worse than it really is. Pot does cause short-term memory loss and impair your sense of judgment and perception, but these are not permanent (Cloud, 65). And...

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... has been observed by many philosophers of Psychology, Sociology, and especially Phrenology have seen. Marijuana has some psycho-active chemical, which once it hits the patients brain, opens doors of perception which, in most Americans, remain shut throughout most of their days and even lives. The effects of marijuana being legalized would be considerably well worth while from the secular humanistic ... alcohol for marijuana. Rather than people showing aggressive behavior as occurs when intoxicated by alcohol, people would become much more passive toward fighting and aggressive behavior....

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... marijuana being less harmful then alcohol if this is the case then why is alcohol legal but not marijuana. Marijuana has been illegal in Canada sense 1923 when the Opium and Drug Narcotics came into effect. Ever sense then people have been fighting to try to legalize it. So far we seem to be doing all right they have legalized marijuana for ... a wide range of effects may occur. The usual most noticeable effect is intensification of sensation and increased clarity of perception. Visually colors may seem to be brighter and scenes may seem to have more depth, patterns are more easy to pic...

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... the drug should be legal. Marijuana has been used throughout history in many different cultures to change mood, perception, and consciousness - in other words, to get high. Its effects range from increasing creativity to provoking mystical experiences, to heightening the capacity to feel sense and share. After alcohol, it is the most popular of what are called "recreational drugs." It has been ... ...

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