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Introduction Definition of the term marijuana Significance of the marijuana Disadvantage of marijuana

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Body Symptoms and signs of marijuana addiction Negative impacts of marijuana for students Treatments

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Conclusion Conclusion Recommendations How to help someone overcome marijuana addiction?

INTRODUCTION Marijuana often called pot, grass, reefer, weed, herb, Maryjane , or MJ is a greenish gray mixture of the dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of cannabis sativa the hemp plant. Most users smoke marijuana cigars , or blunts, are also popular. To make blunts, users slice open cigars, remove some of the tobacco, and mix the remainder with marijuana. Marijuana also is used to brew tea and sometimes is mixed with food. Marijuana generally refers to the dried flowers and subtending leaves and stems of the female cannabis plant. The major chemical component of the psychoactive marijuana is tetrahydrocannabinoids which is abbreviated as THC.

Marijuana is the correct term for this medical euphoric ganja. Marijuana slows down cancer cells and it is very useful to people with leukemia that find it very hard to eat. It cured anorexia, of some people. It eventually cures and prevent depression in the patient that choose to use this medicines purpose. It keeps most people off harsher drugs like cocaine, ecstasy, meth, heroine etc.

Long term usage of marijuana may lead to addiction. This has harmful effects on social relationships with family, work, school and entertaining activities. It causes sleeplessness, decreased taste, bad temper and anxiety, suicidal desire and schizophrenia. Chronic use of marijuana, especially in youngsters causes risk of mental illness, vulnerability, and exposure to violence. The heart beat rate after abusing marijuana is increased by 20 to 80 percent and this effect can last for over 3 hours.

Symptoms and Signs of Marijuana Addiction

Behavioral changes of marijuana addiction include: distorted perceptions impaired coordination difficulty in thinking and problem solving ongoing problems with learning and memory Additionally, several other signs of marijuana abuse are frequently visible in users: red, blurry, bloodshot eyes constant, mucus- filled cough rapid heartbeat hunger, referred to as munchies dry mouth anxiety, paranoia, or fear poor memory poor coordination slow reaction time loss of control addiction

When long - term marijuana abusers try to stop using the drug, they often suffer with a number of unpleasant symptoms, which make it difficult to quit. The desire to stop the withdrawal symptoms leads many people back into ongoing marijuana use: irritability sleeplessness decreased appetite, which can trigger disordered eating anxiety drug craving

Negative Impacts of Marijuana for Students

There have been many studies to identify the negative impacts of marijuana. Specialists have observed that brain is affected by THC. While the chemicals are carried by it to the brain and other organs of the body. THC has effects on several parts of the brain and creates a series of reactions that lead to high coordination, distorted awareness, difficulty in thinking and solving. Prolonged use also cause problems with learning and memory.

Research has shown that marijuanas negative effects on attention, memory, and learning can last for days or weeks after the acute effects of the drug wear off. Consequently, someone who smokes marijuana daily may be functioning at a reduced intellectual level most or all of the time. Not surprisingly, evidence suggests that, compared with their nonsmoking peers, students who smoke marijuana tend to get lower grades and are more likely to drop out of school. A meta- analysis of 48 relevant studies- one of the most thorough performed to date- found cannabis use to be associated consistently with reduced educational attainment (e.g., grades and chances of graduating).

Marijuana users themselves report poor outcomes on a variety of life satisfaction and achievement measures. One study compared current and former long- term heavy users of marijuana with a control group who reported smoking cannabis at least once in their lives but not more than 50 times. Despite similar education and income backgrounds, significant differences were found in educational attainment: fewer of heavy users of cannabis completed college, and more had yearly household income of less than $30,000. When asked

how marijuana affected their cognitive abilities, career achievements, social lives, physical and mental health, the majority of heavy cannabis users reported the drugs negative effects on all these measures. The main active chemical in marijuana is delta-9tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). When someone smokes marijuana, THC rapidly passes from the lungs into the bloodstream, which carries the chemical to the brain. THC acts on specific places in the brain, called cannabinoid receptors, producing a series of cellular reactions that ultimately lead to the high that users seek. Some brain areas have many cannabinoid receptors; others have few or none. The highest density of cannabinoid receptors are found in parts of the brain that influence pleasure, memory, thought, concentration, sensory and time perception, and coordinated movement.

Treatments

Currently, no medications are available to treat marijuana abuse, but research is active in this area. Most of the studies to date have targeted the marijuana withdrawal syndrome. For example, a recent human laboratory study showed that a combination of a cannabinoid agonist medication with lofexidine ( a medication approved in the United Kingdom for the treatment of opioid withdrawal) produced more robust improvements in sleep and decreased marijuana smokers relative to either medication alone. Recent discoveries about inner workings of the endogenous cannabinoid system raise the future possibility of a medication able to block THCs intoxicating effects, which could help prevent relapse by reducing or eliminating marijuanas appeal.

Available studies indicate that effectively treating the mental health disorder with standard treatments involving medications and behavioral therapies may help reduce cannabis use, particularly among heavy users and those with more chronic mental disorders, Behavioral treatments, such as motivational enhancements therapy ( MET), group or individual cognitive- behavioral therapy (CBT), and contingency management (CM), as well as family- based treatments have shown promise. As with other addiction, these data suggest that chronic care model should be considered for marijuana addiction, with treatment intensity stepped up or down based on need, comorbid addictions or other mental disorders, and the availability of family and other supports.