It is commonly accepted that marijuana is the least dangerous of them all and some even claim that it is harmless and not addictive. Two reasons which completely prove why it may be legal in some places. However, this is not entirely true. According to recent researchers, marijuana is extremely dangerous regarding brain cells, motivation, mentality, emotions and addiction.
It turns out that there are two major sections of the brain that are affected and different abnormalities are recorded. 40 students have been examined, 20 who used cannabis and 20 who did not. Dr. Anne Blood says "These are core, fundamental structures of the brain. They form the basis for how you assess positive and negative features about things in the environment and make decisions about them."
It appears that marijuana alters the way brain perceives pleasure and reward, presenting ordinary activities as less fulfilling. In fact, with more smoking actually the brain start developing different new connections which serves as becoming addicted, which is generally observed with people constantly refusing to stop, but claiming they are not addicted.
Mark Winstanly says "For too long cannabis has been seen as a safe drug, but as this study suggests, it can have a really serious impact on your mental health."
It was also investigated what happens with minors using the drug and it turns out that consumers below or at the age of 15 have a quadrupled chance of developing a mental disease after their teenage years.
40 people are definitely not enought to draw concrete conclusions, but it is a start.
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In my opinion, a drug is anything that alters your state of mind. Plain and simple. And yes there are millions of people who can function perfectly well while high, but that doesn't mean pot isn't a drug. I spent years learning about how the mentally addictive qualities of marijuana change the way you see pleasure and how it can even become a gateway drug, which is just as dangerous as any other drug. Just because a person doesn't lose consciousness after smoking some weed and just because there are some positive attributes to smoking weed, doesn't mean that it isn't a drug that has mentally addictive properties. I think people tend to forget that nearly everything we put into our bodies as humans has both a negative and positive effect. Sometimes the positive is physical, sometimes it is emotional, sometimes it is mental, but for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction and I think pop-media has done a good job of making people forget that.
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