Why Can We Get Addicted to Marijuana?
Posted by riocaesar | Posted in Health and Medical | Posted on 17-09-2010
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Marijuana has been known made from a plant called Cannabis sativa. The most common part used from this plant is the leave. Dried leaves could be smoked like tobacco and produce a chemical substance: THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol). Because of this THC a lot of people have fallen into an addictive state, thus some countries are banning of using marijuana or smoke weed because of the addiction and dosage tolerance issue.
Cannabis sativa
THC is a chemical substance that contained in the leave of Cannabis. THC in human body can stimulate the brain to a recreational state so the people who smoke weed will experience some pleasure in their mind only, they may laugh or smile although there is no single stimulus or situation that would make them like that. THC can also stimulate the appetite, some of the marijuana addicted people confess they would gain some weight because their eating habit is changing.
Chemical formula of THC
To the other part of the bodies, THC also make some impacts to the user:
1. Red eye.
2. Dried mouth.
3. Hot or cold sensation in skin.
4. Increasing heart beat.
5. The relaxation of the muscles.
The prolong or abuse use of marijuana could make the addicted people into a drug tolerance, when it happens people may seek to use more and more because the remain dose could not bring them into recreational state. Also, this condition will trigger of the them to be in mental disorders: psychosis, depression, and anxiety. Also marijuana is often wrapped by paper, the burning process of this paper would produce much carbon that would likely to cause some breathing problem.
In medicine THC is well known used for treating many life threatening disease that put people into terminal, like cancer, or AIDS. This THC medicine will ease their pain, so THC could also bring positive effects to the people only if it is used as indicated by the professionals. So in conclusion THC will only be useful for people who gets a terminal or end stage of their disease. Recreational use of THC is not good for health because the happiness and the fun that the user got from smoking weed is just for temporary.
If you are a smoking weed addicted, we suggest you to start to consult yourself to any humanitarian organization to get for rehabilitation. Because there is no word “too late” if you are trying to be better from stopping the using of marijuana.
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