“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other” (berry, 2003). Drugs are all in all bad for the human body, but to much off anything overtime is bad for you. Drugs such as nicotine, marijuana heroin etc. are commonly used for an antidepressant, in the communities where the circumstances and conditions the people are under force them to use drugs to get away from all the pain and suffering for the moment in time. More commonly used in adolescence and young adults, drugs are used in the communities where there are crimes, low income as well as a large quantity of poverty, at which the government state wise alongside the federal government pay no attention to, what does that tell you about drugs and society? Drugs are seen as a bad thing and shunned upon to the outside world meaning those who don’t indulged in recreational use of the drug and those who do see it as a vacation. But scientifically Teenagers as well as young adults who aren’t fully developed are at risk of physical and mental digression or for their development to be at a standstill while either using marijuana nicotine or heroin.
What is marijuana? “Marijuana is known by many names, ganja, mary jane, loud crud sour and many other names, Marijuana refers to the dried leaves, flowers, stems, and seeds from the Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica plant, the plant contains the mind-altering chemical THC and other similar” (Richardson 1, 2017). THC or Tetrahydrocannabinol is the chemical inside of marijuana that is known to affect the human body mentally as well as having some sort of physical affect as well those effects can include impairment of short term memory an amount of long term memory impairment a shortage of breath in addition to a lowered stamina. Marijuana is the most commonly used drug in the United States. “In 2015, more than 11 million young adults ages 18 to 25 used marijuana in the past year. According to the survey, rates of marijuana use among middle and high school students have dropped or leveled off in the past few years after several years of increase. However, the number of young people who believe regular marijuana use is risky is decreasing”(Richardson). Marijuana use have climbed since then which makes it that more and more teens and young adults are being affect mentally and physically as the days go on. I believe that the only way that number, whatever it might be, will substantially decrease is to stop the importation of the product. With this idea it might slow up the money of many companies who buy marijuana consumers will overall become healthier, life is more important t...
