Tyler+McKay

What is the realationship between marijuana and brain damage? To tell you the truth when you use marijuana it makes it very hard to remember recent events (even only minutes ago) which is vital for learning. In fact a group of addicts were tested in Costa Rica, and the test they did worst on listing a short list of words that they heard earlier. A very bad memory. Some negative short term effects realated to the brain are euphoria, anxiety, and short term memory loss. Long term effect include schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, and major depression.

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This video shows you all of what drugs can do to your brain and how these addicts are wishing they had listened and not done the drugs. In that one photo of the brain, it showed holes and dents in the brain on drugs, and the clean brain with drugs. So i guess the question is, what brain do you want? I belive that this particluar video has very good imagery of brains undertaken not only marijuana but all drugs and shows that they are very messed up.

Marijuana comes from a plant called cannabis containing THC, which has huge effects on peoples memory, emotions, and even central nervous system. To effect the central nervous system, the marijuana will attach to the brains neurons and, interfering with the normal communication of the neurons. I allready knew about the negative affects it had on the memory and emotions, making people do insane things like killing or stealing a car, but I found it very interesting about how it attacks the central nervous system.

I got my information from the following sites - Nida, serendip, and my video from youtube.