1. Marijuana
Manisha Adhikari
HLTH 1050

2. How are marijuana used?
Smoked
Vaporized
Eaten
Liquid Extracts

3. Smoking Extracts
Hash Oil
Hashish
Budder
Wax
Shatter

4. Recreation use of marijuana.
Get “high” or “stoned”
Heightened mood or change in perception
Increase in appetite

5. Medical use of marijuana
Early use of marijuana
Tetanus
Cholera
Alcoholism
Snake bite
Today’s advance medical use
Muscle spasm because of multiple sclerosis
Seizure
Parkinson’s disease
Crohn’s disease
Weight loss because of HIV
Relieve pain from chemotherapy for cancer

6. How does it work on brain?
It increases the release of dopamine by blocking GABA (neurotransmitter)

7. Long term and short term effects
Impaired body movement
Difficulty with thinking as well as problem solving
Hallucination
Delusion
Decrease in IQ
Cancer

9. The drug abuse warning network (DAWN) estimated that almost people visited drug related emergency department in US. Among this visit the number of male patients were two thirds

10. Legal or illegal???

11. Works Cited Harding, Anne. Medical marijuana. 2013. https://www. webmd
Works Cited Harding, Anne. Medical marijuana health, National institute of. Marijuana. may november NIH. What is the scope of marijuana use in the United States? august november scholastic. the science of marijuana: How THC affects the brain science, leaf. marijuana and dopamine; the science behind it . may nov 2017.

12. Thank You