KH 3000
Presented by:
Leonede Buller Mishinda DeBose
B.Jermaine Price Edricka Burnett
Towanda Smith Shameika Averett
Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of
dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the
hemp plant.
Also known as pot, herb, grass, weed, boom, Mary Jane,
gangster, reefer, blunt, or chronic and some 200 others
Types
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Regular
Chronic
mid-grade
Hydro
Hashish
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Purple
Cali Skunk
Indo
Sinsemilla
Fry
How is it Used?
• Usually smoked as a
cigarette rolled, handmade (called a joint or
a nail), in pipe or a
bong. Has recently
appeared in cigars
called blunts and
spliffs.
Marijuana is on the Rise Among
Middle School Age Students
Why?
• Increase in availability of marijuana and
other drugs
• Teens being misguided about marijuana as
being a natural product.
• They’re unaware of the mood-altering and
physiological effects.
• Has become some-what accepted by society
through media and radio waves
Why?
• Less expensive of all drugs, next to alcohol.
• As stated by Insel and Roth, “One reason
for our society’s concern with the casual or
recreational use of illegal drugs is that it’s
not really possible to know when drug use
will lead to abuse or dependence.”
Reason for its use
• Peer Pressure – because friends or siblings
use it
• Family influence – because they see older
people in family using it
• Listening to music and songs that refer to its
use.
• Belief of escaping form problems at home,
school, or with friends
Warning Signs Parents Should
Look For…
• Increasing agitation and irritability
• Loss of motivation and interest in previously
enjoyed activities
• Decreased attention span and increased distracted
behavior
• Red or glassy eyes, extreme fatigue, and poor
health
• A loss of motivation and interest in previously
enjoyed activities
• A significant weight gain or loss
• Withdrawal from former friends who do not
use drugs
• Failure to acquire age-appropriate social
skills
• Depression, confusion, and mood swings
• Changes in likes and dislikes to a more
conventional style (such as with music, hair,
and clothing
Short Term Effects
…the effects of Marijuana are influenced by users
expectations and past experiences
• Low Dosage
– Euphoria, heighten of
subjective sensory
experiences,
hallucinations,
fantasies, paranoia,
laid-back attitude
• Moderate dosage
– Dryness of the mouth,
reddening of the eyes,
impaired motor skills
and memory function,
lapse of attention,
frequent hunger attacks
“munchies”, and
feelings of
depersonalization
Does marijuana affect school, sports,
driving, and other activities?
• Biggest hazard for teens: Marijuana makes them
mess up in school, sports, clubs, or with friends.
• When high, more likely to make stupid mistakes.
• Strong link between drug use and unsafe sex
leading to spread of HIV
• Lost of energy, interest and impaired vision
• Timing, coordination, alertness, and performance
all affected
Long term effects
• Bronchitis,
emphysema, bronchial
asthma, soar throats,
coughs, chronic
obstructive pulmonary
disease, increased
heart rate, increased
risk to lungs, short
term memory,
glaucoma, suppresses
immune system
• reproductive system
(decrease in
testosterone, decreased
sperm count,
abnormality of sperm,
impaired fetal growth
and development),
physical dependency,
leads to subsequent
use of cocaine and
heroine
Statistics
• About 1 – 5 8th graders report they are current
marijuana users (used within past month)
• Is the most widely used illegal drug in U.S. (more
than 30 % of Americans, about 67 million, have
tried it at least once)
• According to the National Household Survey on
Drug Abuse (NHSDA) states that among youths
age 12-17, 10.9% reported past month use of illicit
drugs in ’99.
• 7.7 % of youths were current users in 1999
Effects on the Brain
• The chemicals travel
through bloodstream and
attach to special places on
brain’s nerve cells
(receptors)
• THC disrupts nerve cells
in part of brain where
memories are found,
making it harder for user
to recall recent events and
hard to learn while high.
• Toll taken on mental
functions
Availability
• According to study, 50% of 13 year olds reported
they could find and purchase marijuana.
• From peers (others that are older)
• Today it is available in all walks of life
(metropolitan, suburban, and rural areas)
• Can be purchased for as little as $5
• Those that distribute marijuana have now become
your next door neighbor or mutual friend
Overall Usage
• Abuse of Alcohol or
Other Controlled
Substances for Persons
12-17 years of age in
1994 -1995
20
15
1994
10
1995
5
0
TOTAL
FEMALE
Societal Effects
• Society sends kids mixed messages about alcohol,
tobacco, and other drugs
• Kids see and hear messages intended for adults –
misinterpret them as being for kids
• We, society, mourns for rock stars who die from
overdoses then kids believe all role models use
drugs and its okay to use drugs
Television
• Before age 10, a child has seen about 12,000 hours
– approx. 17 commercials per hour, so they have
seen over 200,000 commercials by 10th birthday
• About 25% commercials have been for over-thecounter drugs – in turn kids see 50,000 O-T-C
before reaching age 10 – before developing moral
reasoning needed to process the reasoning.
Music
Artists
• Bob Marley – Reggae
• The Grateful Dead – Rock
• Cheech and Chong –
Hispanic
• Smashing Pumpkins and
Metallica – Heavy Metal
• Snoop Doggy Dog – Rap
• Erykah Badu - R&B
Solutions
What parents could do to help…
• Be good role models. Parents need to model
their behavior the way they expect their
children to behave.
• Stay involved with your children. Staying
involved keeps parents more aware of any
changed behavior.
• Educating children about drugs.
What parents can do to help…
• Don’t make it easy. Never assume that your
children supervised appropriately. Know
where they are and who their with.
• Build a strong and resilient relationship.
• If you suspect your child has a drug
problem, seek help immediately.
As far as Media is Concerned…
• Carefully planned mass media campaigns
can reduce substance abuse by countering
false perceptions that drug use is normative
• Also by influencing personal beliefs that
motivate drug use
• Having media programs work in
conjunction with other community – and
school-based anti-drug programs
Prevention Program
• D.A.R.E. (Drug Awareness Resistance Education)
is a school and community based program strives
for the prevention of drug use and violence among
secondary education students.
• Their focus is on problem identification, analysis,
and utilization of systematic problem solving
techniques together with strong community
partnership as a means to achieve more effective
long-term solutions to persistent drug use and
gang violence
Prevention Program
• The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign is
an organization that targets youth ages 9-18
(especially the vulnerable middle-school
adolescents) through the use of various media to
educate and empower young people to reject illicit
drugs.
• The Campaign uses a mix of modern
communications techniques – from advertising
and public relations to Interactive media – and all
possible venues – from television programs to
after-school activities – to enlist and engage
people in prevention efforts at school, work, and at
play.
Treatment
The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
and The National Institute on Drug Abuse
1. Discovering what can be done to help client
write a prescription for clinical progress and
move along a continuum toward, if not
abstinence, then measurable improvement.
2. Engagement- one coming forth with problem
Treatment
3. Create an environment in which patients are
motivated, are invested in their own recovery,
recognize incentives and disincentives of
behavior, and accept the consequences of
behavior
4. Creating an environment in which healing can
take place, where there is consistency
leadership and research
Summary
• Being an adolescent is a risk factor for trying
illicit drugs (especially marijuana) which further
leads to habitual usage
• Percentage on a rise due to availability and
lack of awareness about marijuana
• Media and radio have come to play and
increasingly important role in raising our children
and leading to the mis-education about drugs and
alcohol
It is a social activity, and
Teens are at a loss for
Social activities right now.
“When you go to a concert
Or go dancing, the thing to
Do is smoke dope.
Rebecca Carpenter, 15
Lincoln High student (Portland, Oregon)
“It is easy to do, easy to grow, easy to get and easy to
sell”