The Real Reasons To Stay Away From Marijuana
by John Duff
There seems to be a consensus
of agreement about the dangers of cocaine, heroin, and even cigarettes
and alcohol, but not marijuana. What are the real dangers with it
and how do you handle responses such as; "marijuana is an herb",
"it is harmless", "it is used as a medicine",
"it's organic", "it makes me feel creative and I
write and perform better!".
As a youth during the 1960's
I became deeply involved with drugs including marijuana and was
arrested numerous times prior to going through the Narconon Drug
rehabilitation program in December of 1971. I bought, sold, and
smuggled drugs out of the Mexican Border town of Mexicali, Mexico
for a number of years.
I once thought that everyone
should smoke pot and I thought it was my job to get them to. This
is no longer how I feel and now I have the task of trying to change
the damage done.
So lets look at what the real
dangers are and some of the more frequent responses to them.
What all drugs have in common
is that each and every one contain or are a poison. The poison molecule
in marijuana is THC. It is the THC that causes the high. What are
the problems?
Ambition
Ambition
is the very thing that a person aquires natural highs from. Of all
the drugs I used, marijuana sapped my ambition more than any other.
In high school my only goal in life became "to find the ultimate
bud (bud means: potent cluster of marijuana flowers)" All else
became unimportant or secondary.
Memory
It has been stated in the past that marijuana effects "short-term
memory". It is more than this. Using marijuana as well as other
drugs effect concentration, recording (learning) and recalling (remembering).
Education
Individuals who use marijuana are going to have a hard
time educating themselves either inside or outside the classroom.
The reason is the mind is your computer and it depends on attention,
concentration, recording and recalling and memory. Grades and performance
usually drop with regular use.
Personality
Marijuana, like all recreationally used drugs, changes
ones personality. It can make the shy feel outgoing, the weak feel
strong, the inhibited feel uninhibited - especially concerning sex.
Instead of developing these qualities the addict relies on drugs
to produce the illusion that they posses them.
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