| Teens believe it's cool to use marijuana because they | | | | pressure. |
| hear songs about it and see it on Television and in | | | | Regular marijuana users repeatedly develop breathing |
| movies. Some adolescence may sense they need | | | | problems, such as chronic coughing and puffed. |
| marijuana and other drugs to help them run away | | | | Marijuana contains the same cancer causing chemicals |
| from problems at home, at school, or with friends. | | | | as tobacco. The amount of tar inhaled by marijuana |
| No matter how many shirts and caps you see printed | | | | smokers and the intensity of carbon monoxide |
| with the marijuana leaf, or how many groups sing | | | | absorbed by those who smoke marijuana are three to |
| about it, remember this: teens won't have to make use | | | | five times greater than among tobacco smokers |
| of marijuana just because they believe everybody | | | | All forms of marijuana used by teens are mind-altering. |
| else is doing it. Most adolescents do not use marijuana! | | | | In other words, they alter how the brain works. Teens |
| Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, | | | | take core vigorous chemical in marijuana. THC |
| shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the | | | | (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), they also have more |
| hemp plant. You may hear marijuana called by lane | | | | than 400 other chemicals. Marijuana's effects on the |
| names such as pan, herb, wild plant, prairie, boom, | | | | user depend on its strength or effectiveness, which is |
| chronic etc. There are more than 200 terminology | | | | related to the amount of THC it contains (5). The THC |
| terms for marijuana. Sinsemilla (sin-seh-me-yah; it's a | | | | content of marijuana has been rising since the 1970s. |
| Spanish word), hashish ("hash" for short), and hash oil | | | | The way marijuana used |
| are stronger forms of marijuana. | | | | Marijuana is habitually smoked as in a pipe or a bong |
| Teens smoke marijuana | | | | by teens. Recently, it has appeared in cigar wrappers |
| Opposing to fashionable belief, most teenagers do not | | | | called blunts, when it is frequently combined with |
| use marijuana. Among undergraduate surveyed in a | | | | another drug, such as crack cocaine. |
| yearly national survey, only about one in six 10th | | | | Marijuana stays in the user's (teens) body as |
| graders report they are recent marijuana users | | | | THC in marijuana is quickly absorbed by greasy |
| Young people use marijuana | | | | tissues in various organs. Generally, traces of THC can |
| There are various reasons why some kids and young | | | | be detected by typical urine testing methods several |
| adolescence start smoking marijuana. Many immature | | | | days after a smoking session. However, in chronic |
| teens smoke marijuana because they see their | | | | heavy users, traces can occasionally be detected for |
| brothers, sisters, friends, or even older family members | | | | weeks after they have stopped using marijuana. |
| using it. Some use marijuana because of gaze | | | | |