SOME FACTS ABOUT MARIJUANA
Like tobacco, the drug is a plant substance, that when smoked combusts into thousands of chemicals. Repeated use can result in negative biological, social and psychological effects - especially for the young. Marijuana also alters the mind and may trigger the reinforcing reward pathway of the brain leading to addiction.
It is a fat soluble drug (unlike alcohol or heroin, cocaine, ecstasy etc) which means it is absorbed by the fatty tissues in the body (the brain is one third fat) and lingers for weeks or months depending on the amount smoked) leaving the user in a permanently stoned condition. Resulting in road accidents and deterioration of the brain.
The research on Marijuana indicated that use of the drug increases one's risk of harm from a variety of sources (health, accidents, dependence) While harm to oneself or others is not inevitable, it is far more likely.
Not every user ends up addicted, or has an accident or gets cancer. Some tobacco smokers never develop cancer. Not every user goes on to use other drugs, yet almost every heroin or cocaine addict according to research started on marijuana as a gateway drug. Research also shows that marijuana users are at greater risk of many types of harm. This is borne out by Accident and Emergency Departments in hospitals.
This information has been compiled, in response to the misinformation being peddled by those seeking to promote chemical warfare on sick people either to satisfy their own greed or, to feed their own addiction or through ignorance of the facts. To suggest that a sick person with an impaired immune system should smoke crude marijuana joint pulls medicine back into the dark ages.
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