Smoking Marijuana

decreased appetite, cravings, restlessness, and other forms of physical discomfort.

Smoking marijuana may also have factors that are a concern for your mental health. A study from Northwestern University discovered that those who smoke marijuana have poor memory and an abnormal brain structure. This study also displayed that chronic marijuana abuse may lead to schizophrenia. It was also noted that the younger that someone is exposed into using marijuana, the worse that the effects may become. The American Medical Association reported: "Heavy cannabis use in adolescence causes persistent impairments in neurocognitive performance and IQ, and use is associated with increased rates of anxiety, mood and psychotic thought disorders”. To sum that up, smoking marijuana may make the smoker dumber even when they are not high on the cannabis.

Aside from the health factors, pot may turn your life upside down in a highly negative way. Positron emission tomography scanned nineteen pot smokers and nineteen non-smokers. Those nineteen that smoked pot had results of less dopamine in those who smoked more. The deficiency of dopamine may cause a feeling of laziness and a lack of motivation in the brain. This lazy feeling may harm students in school to lose jobs, flunk out of their school, become frustrated or even losing those close to them due to personality disorders. Students that are exposed to marijuana have lower GPA’s and are less likely to be accepted into colleges than nonsmokers due to their inability of organizing information and remembering. A study of postal workers saw that over fifty percent of workers that tested positive for smoking marijuana had more accidents. It was also addressed that marijuana intoxication was responsible for a fraction of driver fatalities.