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Anti-drug Campaign
Research Notes
Name of Drug
Sub-topic
a) Common Street
Names
b) How the Drug is
Used and Taken
Key facts (point form – one key fact per bullet)
 A-bomb, Acapulco gold, ace, African black, Aunt Mary, bhang, blunt,
blanche, boom, bush , chronic, dagga, dope, fry (laced with embalming
fluid), fry sticks (laced with embalming fluid), gangster, ganja, grass, hash,
hash oil, herb, joint, kef, Mary Jane, nickel, oil, old man, pot, reefer, roach,
skunk, smoke, tar, Thai sticks, weed
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c) Psychological
Effects
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d) Short Term
Physiological
Effects
e) Adverse and/or
Long Term Health
Effects
The most common way to use Marijuana is to smoke it.
The drug must be heated to produce the psychoactive effect; people cannot
get high by eating the plant.
It is smoked by rolling small amounts of the plant into cigarette papers, and
then smoked.
Pipes and bongs are also used which pass the smoke through water as the
user inhales.
Marijuana can also be baked into food – such as brownies. It can have the
strongest and most unpredictable high.
The effects begin within minutes, generally with a feeling of lightheadedness and euphoria (intense happiness).
More outgoing, and laugh easily and difficulty concentrating
Have a hard time learning new things, or remembering what is happening at
the moment
Some users feel calm, relaxed and sleepy while others are anxious, talkative
and giddy. Some laugh for hours while some panic.
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A loss of motor control
May also be hazardous to your developing lungs.
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Smoking marijuana daily or even occasionally for a period of years
increases the risk of lung cancer
between 8 and 9 percent of the general population develop serious mental
illnesses in adulthood
Respiratory system damaged by smoking.
Disruption in menstrual cycle, decreased sperm count and possible
congenital abnormalities.
psychosis, feeling unmotivated, diminished drive and lessened ambition
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f) Possibility of
Physiological and
Psychological
Dependency
g) Overdose
Complications and
Possibility of
Fatality
h) Statistics
i) Other Facts
Discovered
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Heavy users of marijuana at age 18 increased their risk of schizophrenia
later in life by six times.
Each year, more kids enter treatment with a primary diagnosis of marijuana
dependence than for all other illegal drugs combined
Withdrawal from marijuana is not terribly difficult, even after heavy use,
but it has more of a psychological dependency.
The only possibility of fatality while under the influence on Marijuana is
trying to drive or do other dangerous act due to the inability to make good
decisions.
Among kids who use drugs, 60 percent use only marijuana.
12 to 17 who smoke marijuana weekly are three times more likely to have
thoughts of committing suicide
Marijuana is said to be a “gateway drug” that opens people up to using
other more dangerous drugs.
Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug among youth today and is
more potent than ever.
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Resources
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the correct format.
General Website
Last name, I. OR Organization Name. (0000). Webpage title. Retrieved from url
What’s the deal.org. (N.D). Marijuana. http://deal.org/the-knowzone/drugs/cannabis/marijuana/
Parents. The anti-drug. (N.D). Marijuana and mental health. http://www.theantidrug.com/druinformation/marijuana-facts/marijuana-mental-health.aspx
Book
Last name, I. (0000). Book title. City: Publisher.
Online Encyclopedia
Last Name, I. (0000). Article title. In Encyclopedia title. Publisher. Retrieved from Database.
Bigelow, B. (Ed). (2006). Marijuana. In UXL Encyclopedia of Drugs and Addictive Substances
UXL. Retrieved from Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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