The Negative Effects Of Drugs And Its Effects On The Human Body

A drug is a substance that causes changes in how your body functions. When you swallow a pill, the pill dissolves in your digestive system and the drug is absorbed into your bloodstream. Many drugs are designed to

It is believed that THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) is to be the main ingredient that produces the psychoactive effect to patient. It is mostly smoked, smoked in blunts and/or use in pipe or a bong (DEA, 2011). Some people are also mixing marijuana with food or brewed as a tea. Most of the marijuana users are experiencing pleasure, memory, thought, concentration, sensory and time perception, and coordinated movement. Marijuana is a Schedule I substance which has therefore the highest potential for abuse with no medical use (CDC, 2015).

Drugs have been abused for hundreds of years all over the world; their effects have been felt for just as long. Are drugs helpful in cases or are they an addiction? Should we be aware of what drugs our doctors are providing us with? Do drugs increase the chances of committing a crime or can they control ones behavior? As drugs can be everywhere nowadays they should be taken more seriously as they can affect everything! Every year there’s a new drug, is it because they want people to become addicted to substances in order for the creator to get money or is it because they actually want to help a persons state of mind?

The main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, which is also the most responsible for its intoxicating effects, is known as delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. THC is one of the cannabinoids found in marijuana, and there are over sixty of them. It is the cannabinoid that produces the high, and although there are other cannabinoids present, the effect is different with the absence of THC. They interact with THC to affect its impact in a variety of ways: enhancing or attenuating it, speeding up or slowing down its onset, and influencing how long the effect lasts (Caulkin 7).

Drugs some use them to escape pain, others use them for pleasure, and some use them to just fit in. Either way drugs are a harmful substance that may seriously affect the body. Drugs mess with the brain in ways that we couldn’t even imagine. From destroying brain cells that help with critical thinking to destroying cells that give us the ability to feel pleasure. Drugs take the place of our natural body functions of the body. They fool receptors of the body and make it to where our bodies produce less of what we need. Over a period of time this may produce very severe consequences on the body. With all the risks involved with drugs it’s a wonder why some people use them.

Marijuana, used by 80 million, used frequently by 11 million Americans, and has been debated its whole life (Norml). It goes way back to 8000 B.C. when textile industries began in Europe and Asia, for the use of hemp (Hempfest). To this date people rave on how people look at the drug. It's extraordinary that this plant can be used for recreation, medicine, industrial, and religious reasons. Some popular slang terms to describe marijuana are cannabis, weed, pot, cheeba, mary jane, and many more. The major active chemical, Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), when smoked it releases THC into cannabinol receptors located in the brain, thus causing the "high" feeling (Norml). What is actually smoked is the dried and cured flower buds of the marijuana plant. Today, marijuana is grown with great science, like

It contains over 400 chemicals of which 80 are only discovered in the cannabis plant. These are called cannabinoids. One of the chemicals called delta-a-tetrahydrocannabinol or THC is the most active medically from the cannabis plant (GALE). THC is also the most mind-altering chemical in the plant as well (DA). THC plus many other chemicals found in the cannabis plant regulate many things in the body while in use. The regulate things such as pleasure, memory, concentration, pain, and the sense (DA). This information will play a key role when reading through this research paper. Just like almost everything else in life, there has to be some risks and benefits that come along with medical

Cannabis also commonly known as marijuana is a product that comes from the cannabis plant. Marijuana is mostly used as a psychoactive drug and as medicine although the cannabis plant does have many other uses. Marijuana although legal in 20 states and the District of Columbia for medical purposes and 2 states for medical and recreational purposes is still federally illegal and is considered by the United States a scheduled 1 drug. This means that according to the United States, via the Controlled Substances Act, marijuana has been found to fit the following three categories; The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse, the drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and

Marijuana is a very common street and recreational drug that comes from the marijuana plant. The plant that produces marijuana, as is well known, is the hemp plant cannabis sativa. The pharmacologically active ingredient in marijuana is tetra-hydro-cannabinol. Marijuana is used to heighten perception, affect mood and relax. It is estimated that about thirty percent of adults in the U.S. use marijuana. Many people think marijuana is harmless. It is not. Signs of marijuana use include red eyes, lethargy and uncoordinated body movements. The long-term effects may include decrease in motivation and harmful effects on the brain, heart, lung and reproductive system. People who smoke marijuana are more

Marijuana is the drug made from the dried leaves and flowers of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. The active ingredient of marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is a sticky resin that is

Drugs are any substance that alters the physiology of the body. (McKim and Hancock 2013) Drugs can range from coffee to alcohol and the substances considered over the counter drugs to illegal drugs. A large number of substances deemed to be drugs have many addictive qualities. These addictive qualities lead to chronic

Nearly 4.6 million ER visits in the United States were related in some way to drugs in 2009. Drug abuse not only affects  individuals, but also can have far-reaching consequences that affect family, employment, personal health, and society as a whole.  Drugs is a medicine or any other substance that has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body. Drugs are used to treat ourselves when we get sick. Drugs abuse is the habitual taking of addictive or illegal drugs. There are different kinds of drug that have a different effect when ingested in the body.

Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), also known as delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol is the main psychoactive substance found in the cannabis plant. Cannabis isn’t just a single drug molecule, like alcohol or cocaine, but a mix of over 420 different chemical components. 61 of the called cannabinoids are unique to marijuana. THC is the chemical that triggers cannabis’ main drug action and effects in the body and brain. THC is like a feel-good chemical bomb that explodes on contact, and then breaks up into at least 80 different by products (or metabolites) before it’s eliminated from the body. The process starts as soon as THC enters the blood stream, and begins zeroing in on cannabinoid receptors in the brain and central nervous system Once it checks into the brain, THC takes its own time in checking out. Unlike many other drugs, which are excreted from the body within hours, THC metabolites stick around--stored

Cannabis sativa, commonly known as marijuana, and a vast number of slang terms called weed, herb, pot, bud and Mary Jane is a green plant with a mixture of dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds that grows in different places around the world. Moreover, many recreational users smoke marijuana by hand-rolling cigarettes referred as “joints” also by using pipes, water pipes (bongs) or marijuana cigars often known as blunts. The main psychoactive mind-alternating chemical in marijuana, is responsible for the intoxicating effects sought by the users, is delta-9-tetrahydro-cannabinol (THC). Nevertheless, the chemical is stems from the leaves and buds of the female cannabis plant, containing more than five hundred other chemicals, that include over hundred compounds that are chemically related to THC, known as cannabinoids.

Marijuana is one of the most common illegal drug in the United States. Marijuana also has many different street names such as Mary Jane, weed, Boom, Pot, or Broccoli. It is dried leaves of a hemp plant called Cannabis sativa. Marijuana contains a mind-altering chemical named Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). This type of drug is used mostly by young adult ages from eighteen to twenty-five. They use marijuana by smoking it in the form of cigarettes, otherwise they can vaporizing, mixing it into food to eat, or take it as a liquid extract. Recreational marijuana affects harmful to the brain of the person using it. When a person using marijuana, the THC in it moves from the