Marijuana: Fact and Fiction

- Kids when they're talking about marijuana call it grass, weed, mary jane, pot, dope, cannabis, reefer, sinsemilla, bud, and many other things.

- Weed is not safer than ciggarettes, like most people think it is. Because many of the harmful chemicals that are found in ciggs are found in weed as well. Weed contains 3-5 tar and carbon monoxide as ciggarette smoke does. It also could lead to respiratory problems, including bronchitis, high blood pressure which could cause heart disease. And many other things along those lines. Also because it's usually inhaled much deeper into the lungs and held 4-5 times longer than ciggarette smoke is.

- Researchers said that people who have been using marijuana for a long time could not even pay attention to information long enough to learn it. Young people that spend their life time high don't learn the skills they need to to be successful in life, which usually has a long-lasting effect on their lives.

- The more the years go by from people using it, the more addictive it gets. It's more potent today than it was back in the 1960's. So therefore today that makes it way more addictive. 120,000 people in the United States get treatment to fix their marijuana addict problem.

- People think that trying marijuana is the normal way to grow up. That's true, in the United States marijuana is the most commonly illegal used drug. 33% of americans over the age of 12 said having tried marijuana at least once in their lives. So 67% have not.