While most people know that street drugs like cocaine, heroin, and meth can kill you, many also think that marijuana is a safe drug and it really isn't a big deal if you use it. According to survey, gateway drugs change your mood and bring about a high, but they don't cause physical dependence.
Smoking a single joint every day for a year is approximately equal to smoking twenty cigarettes every day for the same length of time. To simplify this, you are twenty times more likely to get lung cancer from smoking marijuana than you are to get it from smoking cigarettes.
How Marijuana Affects the Brain
The specific receptors in the brain that marijuana interacts with are designed to help you learn, manage things, control your body, etc. Your brain mimics your body in that it grows a lot during your adolescence. When drugs interact with your brain, they alter the natural design of brain development. Marijuana is no exception. When you abuse a substance, it makes an observable difference in how your brain develops, in this case increasing addictive tendencies.
Of course, all of this proof of the physical problems cannabis causes does not negate the fact that it is still a gateway drug . The downside of using marijuana is not so rapidly or visibly apparent as heroin or cocaine, which will leave you looking older, bags under your eyes, spots on your skin, teeth often falling apart, or rotting in your mouth. Once they realize that this drug , which the government and so many other people are so clearly against, isn't really that harmful, they may be tempted to try other drugs . The craving wants to be satisfied; it doesn't care what it takes.
Before taking any substance into your body, you should do the research to find out how it will truly affect you. Do the research. Know what your body will have to go through as a result of what you take into your system.
If you have already started to use any drug , don't listen to people that try to tell you that it's safe. The facts are that almost all of these drugs can harm you- if not now, eventually.