The Truth About Tobacco and Marijuana
WHAT ARE THEY?
Substances
Are non food, mood-altering substances that are not deemed medically necessary but that are used in an effort to escape from the problems of life, to get a dreamy feeling, or a sense of well-being or of elation.
Tobacco-An addictive substance containing toxic substances with eventual harmful effects when ingested into the body. Tobacco contains thirty different substances such as nicotine, arsenic, alcohol and ammonia. Nicotine is one of the oldest, the most widely used, and, in the same amounts, stronger and more addictive than cocaine. The euphoric effect of nicotine is the same as morphine and cocaine.
According to one researcher, "tobacco contains as nice a collection of poisons as you will find anywhere. The tobacco used in pipes and cigars contains more nicotine, more cancerous tars, and produces more dangerous carbon monoxide gas than that used in cigarettes.
Marijuana (Also known as pot, reefer, grass, ganja, or weed) has been the focus of much controversy among experts.
Marijuana is a drug prepared by drying the leaves, flowering tops, stems and seeds of the hemp plant known as Cannabis sativa. Hence, the name sometimes used for it- 'Cannabis' Its common name is "pot." In India it is called bhang. Hashish is another form of cannabis, made from the resin of the plant and usually pressed into the form of blocks or chunks of varying potency. Hashish and an oil made from it are of greater strength than marijuana.
For one thing, marijuana is extremely complex; a marijuana cigarette contains over 400 chemical compounds in its smoke. It took doctors over 60 years to realize cigarette smoke causes cancer - thc oil cartridges shipped anywhere.. It may likewise take decades before anyone knows for sure just what marijuana's 400 compounds do to the human body.
Marijuana smoke, like the smoke from tobacco, consists of a number of toxic substances, such as tars which are only soluble in fat and stored in body tissues, including brain, for weeks and months, like DDT. The storage capacity of tissues for these substances is enormous-which explains their slow deleterious effects in habitual smokers.
WHY TAKE IT?
-Some take these substances to escape from their problems: Failure to develop the skills needed for coping with problems may eventually force an individual to smoking.
-To satisfy curiosity
-To ease depression or boredom
-Peer pressure
-For the pleasure of it-
-To be with the crowd-to feel, cool, grown-up, sophisticated.
-By smoking, teenagers feel independent, whereas they are capitulating to peer pressure.
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS
-The quality of family life or rather the lack of it may affect whether young people take it or not
-Family breakdown (divorce and separation); Eighty percent of drug addicts have serious family problems. They come from a very repressive or a very permissive family or from a home without a father."
-Emotional conflicts: adolescence is an emotionally turbulent period; hence young ones take drugs to escape the turbulence
-Substance abusers are also being manipulated by the tobacco companies. The companies know that their future is with the youth. If youths can be made addicts in their teens, they will likely be good customers for life.
Substances
Are non food, mood-altering substances that are not deemed medically necessary but that are used in an effort to escape from the problems of life, to get a dreamy feeling, or a sense of well-being or of elation.
Tobacco-An addictive substance containing toxic substances with eventual harmful effects when ingested into the body. Tobacco contains thirty different substances such as nicotine, arsenic, alcohol and ammonia. Nicotine is one of the oldest, the most widely used, and, in the same amounts, stronger and more addictive than cocaine. The euphoric effect of nicotine is the same as morphine and cocaine.
According to one researcher, "tobacco contains as nice a collection of poisons as you will find anywhere. The tobacco used in pipes and cigars contains more nicotine, more cancerous tars, and produces more dangerous carbon monoxide gas than that used in cigarettes.
Marijuana (Also known as pot, reefer, grass, ganja, or weed) has been the focus of much controversy among experts.
Marijuana is a drug prepared by drying the leaves, flowering tops, stems and seeds of the hemp plant known as Cannabis sativa. Hence, the name sometimes used for it- 'Cannabis' Its common name is "pot." In India it is called bhang. Hashish is another form of cannabis, made from the resin of the plant and usually pressed into the form of blocks or chunks of varying potency. Hashish and an oil made from it are of greater strength than marijuana.
For one thing, marijuana is extremely complex; a marijuana cigarette contains over 400 chemical compounds in its smoke. It took doctors over 60 years to realize cigarette smoke causes cancer - thc oil cartridges shipped anywhere.. It may likewise take decades before anyone knows for sure just what marijuana's 400 compounds do to the human body.
Marijuana smoke, like the smoke from tobacco, consists of a number of toxic substances, such as tars which are only soluble in fat and stored in body tissues, including brain, for weeks and months, like DDT. The storage capacity of tissues for these substances is enormous-which explains their slow deleterious effects in habitual smokers.
WHY TAKE IT?
-Some take these substances to escape from their problems: Failure to develop the skills needed for coping with problems may eventually force an individual to smoking.
-To satisfy curiosity
-To ease depression or boredom
-Peer pressure
-For the pleasure of it-
-To be with the crowd-to feel, cool, grown-up, sophisticated.
-By smoking, teenagers feel independent, whereas they are capitulating to peer pressure.
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS
-The quality of family life or rather the lack of it may affect whether young people take it or not
-Family breakdown (divorce and separation); Eighty percent of drug addicts have serious family problems. They come from a very repressive or a very permissive family or from a home without a father."
-Emotional conflicts: adolescence is an emotionally turbulent period; hence young ones take drugs to escape the turbulence
-Substance abusers are also being manipulated by the tobacco companies. The companies know that their future is with the youth. If youths can be made addicts in their teens, they will likely be good customers for life.
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