MARIJUANA

OTHER NAMES FOR MARIJUANA

• Weed
• Herb
• Joint
• Cannabis
• Tobacco
• Charge
• Blunt
• Grass
• Pot

LONG TERM EFFECTS

• Poor school performance and higher chance of dropping out Impaired thinking and ability to learn and perform complex tasks Lower life satisfaction Addiction (about 9% of adults and 17% of people who started smoking as teens) Potential development of opiate abuse Relationship problems, intimate partner violence Antisocial behavior including stealing money or lying Financial difficulties Increased welfare dependence Greater chances of being unemployed or not getting good jobs.33

SHORT TERM EFFECTS

• Short-term memory problems Severe anxiety, including fear that one is being watched or followed (paranoia) Very strange behavior, seeing, hearing or smelling things that aren’t there, not being able to tell imagination from reality (psychosis) Panic Hallucinations Loss of sense of personal identity Lowered reaction time Increased heart rate (risk of heart attack) Increased risk of stroke Problems with coordination (impairing safe driving or playing sports)

USE IN AUSTRALIA

• Cannabis is a plant used in Australia for recreational and medicinal use, with a reported one-third of all Australians aged 22 or older having tried cannabis and 1 million using it in the past year
• 750,000 Australians use cannabis every week

USE IN TEENAGERS

• Many teens do take drugs as many people find it cool
• 1 in every 50 would smoke marijuana.

TREATMENT

• The most popular thing would be is to go to a therapist and learn these 3 steps to control the addiction Cognitive-behavioral therapy: A form of psychotherapy that teaches people strategies to identify and correct problematic behaviors in order to enhance self-control, stop drug use, and address a range of other problems that often co-occur with them. Contingency management: A therapeutic management approach based on frequent monitoring of the target behavior and the provision (or removal) of tangible, positive rewards when the target behavior occurs (or does not). Motivational enhancement therapy: A systematic form of intervention designed to produce rapid, internally motivated change; the therapy does not attempt to treat the person, but rather mobilize his or her own internal resources for change and engagement in treatment.