1. SIDE EFFECTS AND POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES
Marijuana Use
SIDE EFFECTS AND POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES

2. Causes lung damage and cancer
1JOINT= 5 cigarettes of carbon monoxide intake.
1 JOINT = 4 cigarettes of tar intake
2 JOINTS= 20 cigarettes of microscopic damage to cells in airways
1 JOINT a day= higher lung damage than cigarettes

3. NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS Disrupts long-term memory 
Literally changes personality due to frontal lobe and amygdala damage
IMPAIRS SYNTHESIS OF PROTEINS AND OTHER IMPORTANT NUTRIENTS FOR YOUR BODY!
Eventually makes you stupid!!! …this is my professional opinion ;-)
Proven to be a trigger for schizophrenia

4. Likely IMPAIRMENT of: Memory Concentration Motivation Self- esteem
Interpersonal relationships
Health
Employment
Finances
Fertility (remember what Nurse Mary said!)
Safety and Pregnancy (low Birth weight & prematurity)

5. HIGH DOSES PRODUCE A TOXIC DELERIUM (it’s a hallucinogen) CONFUSION
AGITATION
DISORIENTATION
LOSS OF COORDINATION
HALLUCINATIONS
COULD RESULT IN POISONING

6. RELATED CONSEQUENCES HIGHER RISK FOR USING HARD DRUGS
HIGH RATE OF ACCIDENTS WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MARIJUANA
EXPOSURE TO THC
STORED IN BLOOD FOR SEVERAL MONTHS
MUST GO THROUGH WITHDRAWL WHEN QUIT

7. Long term consequences personified:
Early onset frontal lobe dementia