Are you or someone you know hooked on marijuana/cannabis?!


Question: Are you or someone you know hooked on marijuana/cannabis!?
I just want to know from people who consider themselves to be hooked or addicted to cannabis/marijuana,and what if anything you have done to try and quit!. Thank's in advance!Www@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
Yes, cannabis is as addictive as any other drug but has no physical withdrawal symptoms when you try to quit!. People use it as a social crutch and then miss it when it isn't there!. They think their lives are dull and boring without it and there lies the answer to why people keep on going back to it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

People say its hard to become addicted to cannabis!.!.!.Some say its impossible!.!.!. I disagree with both!. I know alot of people who are hooked on cannabis and have been for a long time!.

It has alot of other complications too!. It can cause alot of mental health problems!. Not in everyone but in some people who are prone to it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I was!. It's different from other drugs because people at attracted to it by the associated lifestyle and culture!. I!.e!. the long hair and procrastination!.!.!. You just lose interest in it after a while, especially when you get older and you stop being a 'stoner' or a 'goth' or whatever!. It's a teenage thing!. People are 'hooked' because they think it defines them!. When you get a little older you tend to want to look back at your accomplishments rather than your style!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

it's hard to become addicted to cannabis!.!.!.cocaine is more dangerousWww@Answer-Health@Com

Nope!. Thank gosh, but good luckWww@Answer-Health@Com

Try telling them the facts are fast proving just how dangerous it is!!

In only a decade the number of admissions to psychiatric hospital caused by the drug soared by 85 per cent due to the fact that those who smoke the drug regularly are more than twice as likely to suffer illnesses such as schizophrenia, hallucinations and delusions later in life!.

Teens using marijuana to alleviate feelings of depression just compound the problem!.

As well as psychotic illness cannabis can cause affective disorders such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts!. Even worse it is linked to cancers!.

Regular and occasional cannabis users have higher schizotypal personality scores and magical ideation scores than those who had never used cannabis!. Furthermore, it also suggest that non-clinical cannabis users display neuropsychological dysfunction (relative frontal lobe functioning deficits, cognitive inhibition) and attentional deficits similar to those found in schizotypal or schizophrenia patients!.

Blood flow velocity is significantly higher in users and they have higher values on the pulsatility index (PI), which measures the amount of resistance to blood flow!. This is thought to be due to narrowing of the blood vessels that occurs when the circulation system's ability to regulate itself is impaired!. This leads to abnormalities in the small blood vessels in the brain!.

The active chemical in MJ called delta-9-tetrahyrdocannabinol (THC) binds to cannabinoid (CB) receptors located on several cell types in various organs!. This greatly increases the risk for heart attacks and strokes in addition to impaired learning and memory!.

It can also effect physical health!. Three to four cannabis cigarettes a day cause the same amount of damage to the lungs as 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day!. Thus there are rising levels of lung diseases such as emphysema!.
In comparison to cigarettes marijuana smoke has significantly higher levels of toxic compounds, including ammonia and hydrogen cyanide!. Ammonia levels are 20 times higher while hydrogen cyanide, nitric oxide and certain aromatic amines occurred at levels 3-5 times higher!.
It can also effect the unborn child!. Scientists have identified that endogenous cannabinoids, molecules naturally produced by our brains are functionally similar to THC from cannabis and play significant roles in establishing how certain nerve cells connect to each other!. Maternal cannabis use allows THC to travel through the placenta and impair fetal brain development and impose life-long cognitive, social, and motor deficits in affected offspring!.

Low doses of ?-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), equivalent to that in the bloodstream of an average marijuana smoker facilitate infection of skin cells and can cause these cells to turn into malignant sarcoma!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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