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Understanding Marijuana: Risks & Effects

Learn about marijuana, gateway drug risks, usage methods, long-term effects, and impact on learning. Discover its correlation with age, music references, and myths debunked. Prepare yourself for the pre-test on hazardous behaviors.

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Understanding Marijuana: Risks & Effects

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  1. Bell Ringer • Pick up your pre-test located on the chair • Begin working quietly on your own. Please note, you may not know the answers, but do your very best!!!

  2. Break Time • Water • Bathroom • Sharpen Pencils

  3. Unit: Marijuana • 7.1 B Knowledge of harmful and risky behaviors • 7.1 E Factors that affect school success • 7.2 C Strategies for avoiding drugs

  4. What is Marijauna • What Is It? Marijuana is a mixture of the dried and shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the cannabis sativa plant. The mixture can be green, brown, or gray. • Most widely used illegal drug. • Even a very small amount of marijuana is illegal (1 joint). • More potent (stronger) today than in the 1970’s

  5. Gateway DrugA drug that leads to other drug use A person who uses marijuana is more likely to be exposed to and urged to try other drugs. The more marijuana a person smokes, the higher their tolerance level. Therefore, a greater amount of marijuana is needed to get high. Using marijuana puts children and teens in contact with people who use and sell other drugs. Cigarettes/Alcohol Marijuana Hallucinogens Cocaine Heroin Gateway Drug Gateway Drug

  6. How is Marijuana Used? Smoked Joint-Marijuana rolled up in cigarette papers Bong-Marijuana smoked using a water pipe Blunt-Hollowed out cigars filled w/marijuana Eaten Not as common Placed in baked goods

  7. Nicknames Many of these common nicknames are used in movies & music. • Pot • Weed • Hash • Mary Jane • Reefer • Chronic • Grass

  8. Remember: Not “everybody’s doing it”? What is the correlation between age & use? 8% of 8th graders 17% of 10th graders 21% of 12th graders

  9. Music & MarijuanaOn average, teens listen to 2.5 hours of music per day = 40 marijuana references per day Based on reports from Billboard magazine… • 9% of Pop Music • 14% of Rock Songs • 20% of R&B • 36% of Country And... • 77 % of Rap Songs reference drug & alcohol!!!

  10. Short-Term Effects • Coordination • Reaction Time • Alertness • Poor decision making skills (sex, crime, violence) • Memory Loss • Increased Heart Rate • Anxiety 15 % of traffic accidents that end up in the ER are associated with drivers that are “high”

  11. Long-Term Effects • Lung Disease/Cancer • Grades – Teens with low grades are 4x more likely to have used marijuana • Depression • Crime • Increased risk for other drugs • Neurological Issues: attention span, speach

  12. How Marijuana Affects Learning • Interferes with ability to concentrate • Linked to poor grades • Linked to higher dropout rates • Users are 5x more likely to not graduate

  13. Myth: Marijuana is not Addicting More kids enter treatment for marijuana than for all other illegal drugs combined!!! Withdrawal Symptoms Include: Loss of appetite Nervousness Irritability Stomach pain Aggression Anxiety Paranoia

  14. Drug AbuseThe Before and After • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU7aRJ4WpUw&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active Died 7/23/11 Age 27 Died 2/11/12 Age 48

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