Medicinal Marijuana!

            I am a teenager.  I see many people take advantage of marijuana. Many people use it just for fun. Others use it for medicinal reasons. Most of these teenagers today are using Cannabis for fun that is what these teenagers are smoking just to be “cool.” Cannabis can actually be useful for people. I have a friend who smokes cannabis because he has a medical issue. The use of marijuana is keeping him alive, which makes him feel better.  Without the use of Cannabis, he would not be able to bare the pain. I see him smoke marijuana about four to eight times a day. He uses big amounts of marijuana in his blunt. Every ,time he finished smoking he goes straight to bed, and he practically sleeps like a baby. He wakes up and if he is in pain, he goes back to smoking marijuana. I would always ask him if smoking all the marijuana was beneficial to him. He would respond and say to a point it is helping him. I never knew what he meant by “to a point” . I questioned myself every single time he would smoke. I noticed his eyes would turn really red and they would get droopy. He could barely keep them open. I had no idea that was a symptom of being “high.” I always kept in mind what he looked like after the use of Cannabis.

In my initial research, I found Acute effects of Smoked Marijuana on a Specific Airway Conductance in Asthma Subjects website, which contains information about how medicinal marijuana has a long term effect. According to this website, it says that Cannabis can cause a chronic cough, increased risk of bronchitis, and all kinds of lung infections. The use of excess Cannabis can cause learning and memory loss and that is the one matter you do not want to lose.   It also leads to a person becoming anxious and paranoid, and then leading them to being addicted to Cannabis.  When a person becomes addicted to smoking Cannabis, it becomes hard for the person to stop smoking it. Even if you smoke marijuana for non-medical reason it still kills your brain cells. This source explains a massive amount of effects and the long run effects. The website guided my research because it talked about the effects and how it gets to your lungs.

            I would like to research more about this topic because I want people to realize if the side effects of medicinal marijuana is worth it.  I want others to realize if losing their memory is going to be worth it later on in life. In my research, I will discover if medicinal marijuana has strong effects later on in life. Marijuana is made of 400 different chemicals and many unknown effects and that differs from plant to plant. In, the long run many people will abuse the use of “Mary-Jane.” Therefore, marijuana should be legalized, if people use it all the time, it could actually benefit someone. Then again, it could harm someone. There are two sides to this, but keep in mind that it needs to be used for proper reasons.