Also, cannabis users report altered senses and perception: they tend to perceive colors and sounds more vividly, become more sensitive and moody ( MedicalMarijuana, Inc). This is why people laugh so hard when they are under marijuana high. Marijuana often causes relaxed mood, and makes almost everything look funny. Many people tend to feel drowsy and/or sleepy-in fact, marijuana can act as a soporific. A marijuana smoker can forget what they were about to say in the middle of a sentence, or what happened to them a minute ago. Decreased reactions are often followed by slow speech and thinking. What are the short-term effects of smoking marijuana? What does a high look like? Users report that when being under the effect of the drug, they most often experience an altered sense of time: some feel like it passes slowly, whereas others can miss out large periods of time. Although this perspective has not been too popular currently, let us take a closer look at what harm marijuana can do anyways. As any psychoactive substance, marijuana contains chemicals that affect the brain as these chemicals are not innate to the human body (no one is born with THC or CBD in their brains), they can-and sometimes do-disturb the subtle balance of biochemical reactions in a way that can be harmful to an individual. All this information is widely published on the Internet and other media, causing larger amounts of people to get introduced to smoking pot. So far, we can witness the wave of justification: scientists, physicians, and politicians claim that marijuana is an almost-safe drug, the negative effects of which are so insignificant that they are not worth considering. In fact, marijuana is so popular that medical institutions of different countries invest money in research, studying the positive and negative effects of cannabis. Relatively cheap, relaxing, and tolerated in many countries all over the world, it alters a user’s consciousness to a greater extent than alcohol or nicotine. One of the most common substances teenagers start (and fortunately, finish) their acquaintance with psychoactive substances is marijuana. Today, there are perhaps little-to-no people who would not know about the negative effects drugs can have on physical and mental health at the same time, there are many of those who experiment with drugs, especially in adolescence. Things have changed over the course of centuries. Cocaine was once a prescribed medicine that could be legally purchased in a drug store. Alcohol was an almost indispensable attribute for the majority of social events, starting with feasts at kings’ palaces and ending up with village weddings. For instance, hallucinogenic mushrooms and plants were-and still are-used in shamanism, or for religious ceremonies. Alcohol, hallucinogens and psychedelics, opioids, various chemical compounds invented not so long ago-these are just some of the substances that have been used and abused all over the world, in different cultures, and for different reasons. Humanity has been acquainted with drugs for arguably thousands of years.
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