Your Top 10 Questions About Pot

Is Marijuana Addictive?
- Some people say it is, and some people say it isn't. So I guess it's different for everyone. But 224,000 people nationwide are in treatment programs for marijuana, with most of them under the age of 20. Other people say pot isn't physically addictive, because stopping using it doesn't lead to withdrawel symptoms (as in vomitting and the shakes).

Does Pot Lead to Harder Drugs?
- If you opened up to smoking marijuana the you could open up a gateway to trying harder drugs. Marijuana smokers are five times more likely to move onto harder drugs, but the Drug Policy Research Center says it's your friends, environment, and general living style is what makes you want to try harder drugs. So i'd say no it doesn't that it's really up to you on what you do with drugs.

What are Marijuana's Specific Effects on Mind and Body?
- Pot can do a lot of different things to your body as in, put you in a happy ''chill'' zone mood, or make you edgy or paraniod, more social and outgoing, or just quiet and non-social. It's different for everyone. But one thing it does to everyone is it increases your heart rate and ruins your lungs over time. Also users who started smoking it before the age of 17 have smaller brains than the ones who started smoking it after the age of 17.

Does Marijuana Make Guys Impotent?
- It doesn't fully, but it does decrease the sperm count. Because cannabiniods make it hard for sperm when they're looking for an egg. Also another important thing is if a guy stops smoking for 3-5 months everything can go back to normal.

Is it Okay to Drive High?
- It's such a bad idea to drive under the influence. 10-22 percent of car accidents per year are because of drivers under the influence says The National Highway Traffic Safety.

How Come People get "Munchies" When They're High?
- It's all in your head when you think you have the muchies. Because in your brain there's a hypothalamus which tells your body when you're thirsty, hungry or other things like movement. And there's something in marijuana that stimulates the hypothalamus and it tells the brain your hungry.

Is Marijuana an Actual Medical Treatment or do People use it Just Because?
- Marijuana is an actual medical treatment people use. Because in 1999 an Institute of Medicines study found that marijuana can make you hungry, decrease nausea, reduce pain and lessen anxiety.