What are some of marijuanas side effects?
Some of the common mental/emotional side effects are: • Trouble remembering things • Sleepiness • Anxiety • Paranoia (feeling that people are “out to get you”) • Altered time perception And some of the common physical side effects are: • Tremors (shaking) • Nausea • Headache • Coordination becoming worse • Breathing problems • Increased appetite • Reduced blood flow to the brain • Changes in the reproductive organs What does it do to your body? Because marijuana can act as a stimulant or a depressant — depending on the kind and the amount that is taken, users can react differently each time they take the drug. Most often, though, marijuana makes users sleepy, more in their own heads, and less interested in being social. Marijuana has a damaging effect on the lungs. Long term marijuana smokers increase their risk for getting lung cancer and other respiratory diseases. Why? Because a single joint (marijuana cigarette) has the same amount of toxins as about 15 filtered tobacco cigarettes.
