Marijuana Use in Adolescence Teen's

Marijuana Use in Adolescence Teen's

Marijuana use and the effects it has on adult and adolescent teens.

The use of marijuana in adult and adolescent teens has increase over the years and is becoming a big problem in United States today. Over the last five years the average age of adolescent teens using marijuana is between the ages of 9 – 12 year old. So by the time they reach the age of 12 they had started using, or try marijuana. Over 14.6 million people are smoking marijuana each day. Marijuana has it good uses that could help people how are sick with cancer or Aids this drug can be use to help ease pain in patient taking the drug.

What is Marijuana?

Marijuana is a green, brown, and gray mixture of dried leaves, stems, seeds, that make up the buds on the plant. Flower of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) which is a term of (buds). The high active ingredient in marijuana is THC but it includes over 400 other chemical. The drug marijuana is becoming one of the most popular use drugs in the country today. As increase over the years and is becoming a big problem in united state today. Over the last ten years more teen is trying marijuana by the age of 14 years old.

What is the reaction of using marijuana?

After using marijuana the user would likely feel intoxication, a dry mouth, rapid heartbeat, some loss of coordination, and slower reaction response, Blood vessel in your eyes expand causes your eyes to turn red. For some people it could cause high blood pressure or rapid heart rate. But this is a temporality affects of using marijuana. There can be some bad reaction like acute paranoid thoughts this would wear off as your high goes down but this is not a common reaction mostly in people who trying it for the first time. But to people who smoke marijuana it more of a feeling then an reaction. I have given a survey to ten people who are all over the age of 25, who smoke or have smoke. And in my survey I asked fiftheen questions to see how old they were when...

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