Canabis

CANNABIS
Group Names: Shanneil Brown,

Ricardo Grubb, Dejahnae Kellier
Grade: 11L
Teacher: Mr. Mitchell
Table of
Contents
Introduction.....3
Cannabis & Its affect On The Body.....4-
5
How does cannabis affect the user.....6
How does cannabis affect the
family.....7
How does cannabis affect relationships
and wider society.....8
Financial effects on the individual and
the country on the misuse of
cannabis.....9-10
Reference.......................................... 11
• In this presentation we will be sharing
some information on 'Cannabis'.
• Cannabis, also known as marijuana
among other names, is a psychoactive
drug from the cannabis plant. Native to
Introduction Central or South Asia, the cannabis
plant has been used as a drug for both
recreational and entheogenic purposes
and in various traditional medicines for
centuries.
• Now let us get into the rest of our
presentation
Cannabis can be classified as a depressant,
stimulant, or hallucinogen. It can affect the
body in many ways. It can also provide pain
relief and a feeling of calm, but also increase
lung irritation, impair memory and judgment,
and cause eye redness.
Many effects of cannabis are short-term,
CANNABIS & meaning that they last for only a short period.
Other effects are long-term and may not show
ITS AFFECT up immediately. Smoking cannabis has both
negative and positive effects.
ON THE Positive effects:

• reducing pain associated with certain medical
BODY conditions
• reducing inflammation
• helping with glaucoma
• reducing nausea in people undergoing
chemotherapy
Negative effects:
• a higher likelihood of developing bronchitis, when a person smokes it
• more phlegm, when a person smokes it
• lung irritation from irritants including some carcinogens, such as accidentally burning the
mouth or throat when smoking
• a weakened immune system due to the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol, which is the
main psychoactive chemical in cannabis
• pain relief
• reduction in vomiting and nausea
• faster heart rate by 20-50 beats per minute
• red eyes from the increase in blood flow
• relief from the symptoms of glaucoma, for short periods
• aggravation of existing lung conditions, such as asthma, when a person smokes it
• potential interference with tumor growth
• interference with fetal development during pregnancy
• interference with brain development among teenagers
• Addiction causes heartache and
hardship for family members, and its
effects can sometimes be passed
down through generations. Spouses
and children of addicts are more often
the victims of domestic abuse.
HOW DOES Financial hardships can also impact
CANNABIS the family, caused by the addict's
need to buy drugs, as well as from his
AFFECT FAMILY inability to find consistent
employment. The family of an addict
often exists under a veil of denial.
They struggle to present a positive
public image, while secretly living in
shame and fear.
Many people experience a pleasant
euphoria and sense of relaxation. Other
common effects, which may vary
dramatically among different people,
include heightened sensory perception (
e.g., brighter colors ),laughter, altered
HOW DOES perception of time, and increased
CANNABIS AFFECT appetite. They also have a much higher
THE USER chance of developing dependence,
using other drugs, and attempting
suicide. Several studies have also
linked heavy marijuana use to lower
income, greater welfare dependence,
unemployment, criminal behavior, and
lower life satisfaction.
• Addiction often causes the addict’s
disapproving friends to distance
HOW DOES themselves. Alternately, the addict may
abandon non-addicted friends in favor
CANNABIS of those who share and endorse their
addictive habits.
AFFECT • In the company of other addicts, drug
RELATIONSHIP use begins to seem normal. Addicts
S AND WIDER will often neglect their family duties to
share the company of those who won’t
SOCIETY interfere with their drug use. The
stability of these addictive friendships
is tenuous.
• Cannabis is by far the most widely cultivated, trafficked
and abused illicit drug. Half of all drug seizures
worldwide are cannabis seizures. The geographical
spread of those seizures is also global, covering
practically every country of the world. About 147 million
FINANCIAL people, 2.5% of the world population, consume
cannabis (annual prevalence) compared with 0.2%
EFFECTS ON consuming cocaine and 0.2% consuming opiates. In the
present decade, cannabis abuse has grown more rapidly
THE than cocaine and opiate abuse.
• The most rapid growth in cannabis abuse since the
INDIVIDUAL 1960s has been in developed countries in North
AND THE America, Western Europe and Australia. Cannabis has
become more closely linked to youth culture and the
COUNTRY ON age of initiation is usually lower than for other drugs. An
analysis of cannabis markets shows that low prices
THE MISUSE OF coincide with high levels of abuse, and vice versa.
Cannabis appears to be price-inelastic in the short term,
CANNABIS but elastic over the longer term. Though the number of
cannabis consumers is greater than opiate and cocaine
consumers, the lower prices of cannabis mean that, in
economic terms, the cannabis market is much smaller
than the opiate or cocaine market.
• Social determinants of health may be potentially relevant to
better understand cannabis use problems among adults. As
such, the current study sought to provide an initial test of the
role of financial strain, a prominent social determinant of
health, in cannabis use problems and perceived barriers for
cannabis cessation among African American/Black adults.
Participants were 76 (32.9% female, Mage = 38.64, SD =
10.82) adult, current cannabis users. Hierarchical regression
results indicated that greater financial strain was associated
with more cannabis use problems and greater perceived
barriers for cannabis cessation; such effects were evident
above and beyond the variance explained by a range of
relevant covariates, including age, sex, income, education,
and depressive symptoms. These findings suggest addressing
financial strain (e.g., financial planning, psychoeducation
about the handling financial stress) may be a useful
therapeutic tactic in the larger landscape of treatment
programming when targeting cannabis use behaviors and
beliefs among adult cannabis users.
• The Effects of Drug Addiction on
Relationships | Healthfully
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SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administr
References ation
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NIDA.NIH.GOV | National Institut
e on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
,
World Health Organization (WHO
),

Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-revi

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