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What Will You Learn Today?
The Facts about Marijuana
Educate you on the effects, dangers, and negative risks associated with marijuana
Empower you to take control of your physical and emotional health early
Discuss ways to resist using drugsSlide5
What is Marijuana?
Marijuana
is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp, or cannabis, plant.
It
goes by many different names—pot, herb, weed, grass—and stronger forms include sinsemilla
hashish,
and hash oil.All forms of marijuana change how the brain works!Marijuana contains more than 400 chemicals, including THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol). Slide6
What is Marijuana?
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/tp/Pictures-Of-Marijuana-For-Parents.htmSlide7
What is Marijuana?
Photo Source: Jessica SmithSlide8
Definitions & Facts
Tolerance
–
The power of enduring or resisting the action of a drug or substance.
Addiction
-
the compulsive need for or use of a habit forming substance.Withdrawal
-
the syndrome of often painful physical and psychological symptoms that follows discontinuance of an addicting drug <a heroin addict going through
withdrawal
>
Addiction
The younger you are when you start using substances, the higher your chances of addiction to those substances. 15 y/o student who drinks has a 40% higher chance of alcohol addiction.
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Myth, or Fact?
Marijuana is not addictive.
MYTH!
Repeated marijuana use can lead to addiction—which means that people have difficulty controlling their drug use and often cannot stop even though they want to, and even though it undermines many aspects of their lives.
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Myth, or Fact?
It’s safe to drive while under the influence of Marijuana.
MYTH!
Marijuana affects a number of skills required for safe driving—alertness, concentration, coordination, and reaction time—so it's not safe to drive high or to ride with someone who's been smoking.Slide11
Marijuana won’t effect my ability to perform in sports or other after school activities?
MYTH!
Marijuana has many short term effects such as impairing memory, attention, judgment, coordination and balance.
The long term effects would be impaired memory and learning skills, sleep impairment, and chronic cough/bronchitis, risk of mental disease, anxiety or depression.
Myth, or Fact?Slide12
Myth, or Fact?
Marijuana use, occasional or habitual, will have no effect on my school work.
MYTH!
Compared
with their peers who don't smoke, students who smoke
Marijuana
tend to get lower grades and are more likely to drop out of high school. Longtime Marijuana users report being less satisfied with their lives, experiencing memory and relationship problems, poorer mental and physical health, lower salaries, and less career success.Slide13
Myth, or Fact?
Marijuana can help me relax from the stresses of school, work, and life.
MYTH!
High doses of marijuana can cause psychosis or panic when you're high. Some people experience an acute psychotic reaction (disturbed perceptions and thoughts, paranoia) or panic attacks while under the influence of Marijuana.Slide14
Myth, or Fact?
There are no withdrawal symptoms from Marijuana use.
MYTH!
The symptoms are similar in type and severity to those of nicotine withdrawal—irritability, sleeping difficulties, anxiety, and craving. Withdrawal symptoms can make it hard for someone to stay off Marijuana.Slide15
Myth, or Fact?
Since Marijuana is used as a medicine, it can’t be that bad for me.
MYTH!
Several states have passed medical marijuana laws, but marijuana has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat any diseases
. It still carries the negative consequences and risks that non-medical Marijuana.
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Resistance Skills
What are some ways you can say no or avoid situations where drugs may be available?Slide17
Sources
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/marijuana-facts-teens
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
www.claritycampaign.org
2012 Arizona Youth SurveySlide18
Thank you for your attention!
Questions
?
www.Marijuanaharmlessthinkagain.org
www.claritycampaign.org