The Blunt Truth
When kids start High School they want to fit in and want to be popular like the “cool” kids , they either sell or use drugs. Drugs such as popping pills ,ruffies, alcohol but the most popular ones are steroids and marijuana.
Back in the early 20th Century people could not consume or sell marijuana because it contains psychoactive cannabinoids which is illegal in the United States and other countries. During 2004 the United States estimated that approximately 162 million people use it annually, and that 22.5 million people use marijuana daily. Consuming Marijuana causes many effects,thus damaging the human body. There is a chemical substance that is called THC which can cause short-term medical effects while smoking marijuana. The effects while consuming marijuana are short-term memory loss, dry mouth, reddening in the eyes, rapid heart rate and impaired motor skills. These effects will wear out within three to four hours.
However, marijuana stays in your body for months after smoking. Theres many other harmful effects while consuming marijuana such as causing you to have mood changing, calmness, euphoria, paranoia or anxiety. Experts have said that people that use marijuana heavily are at increasing risk to get lung cancer. There’s a percent of people that use marijuana every day in which they get addicted and have to smoke every day. The rates of the people who use marijuana daily are very high. The symptoms that they can get are aggression, depression, anxiety and less of an appetite. In the long term these symptoms will change you and ultimately affect the people you love. Further more, these symptoms will lead you to make bad mistakes that you'll probably regret.
BY: Alondra Zavala