How to use Marijuana

• Ingestion. People who ingest cocaine might experience less blood flow to the digestive system, resulting in bowel gangrene.
• Injection. People who inject cocaine run all the risks associated with injecting, including:
• Puncture scars.
• Infections.
• Allergic reactions.
• Contraction of diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis C.
• Snorting. The most common method of cocaine use, snorting harms the body parts it brings the drug into contact with:
• Because the cocaine powder can irritate and damage the sensitive tissue in the nasal cavity and throat, many chronic users suffer from runny, bloody, and stuffy nose.
• Snorting cocaine regularly long term can lead to tissue erosion, nasal septal perforation, and additional inflammatory processes throughout the air passages.

·  MARIJUANA

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·         Marijuana is usually rolled up in a cigarette called a joint or a nail. It can also be brewed as a tea or mixed with food, or smoked through a water pipe called a bong.

·         Cannabis1 is number three of the top five substances which account for admissions to drug treatment facilities in the United States, at 16%. According to a National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, kids who frequently use marijuana are almost four times more likely to act violently or damage property. They are five times more likely to steal than those who do not use the drug.

·         Marijuana is often more potent today than it used to be. Growing techniques and selective use of seeds have produced a more powerful drug. As a result, there has been a sharp increase in the number of marijuana-related emergency room visits by young pot smokers.

·         Because a tolerance builds up, marijuana can lead users to consume stronger drugs to achieve the same high. When the effects start to wear off, the person may turn to more potent drugs to rid himself of the unwanted conditions that prompted him to take marijuana in the first place. Marijuana itself does not lead the person to the other drugs: people take drugs to get rid of unwanted situations or feelings. The drug (marijuana) masks the problem for a time (while the user is high). When the “high” fades, the problem, unwanted condition or situation returns more intensely than before. The user may then turn to stronger drugs since marijuana no longer “works.”

·         SHORT-TERM EFFECTS:

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·         Loss of coordination and distortions in the sense of time, vision and hearing, sleepiness, reddening of the eyes, increased appetite and relaxed muscles. Heart rate can speed up. In fact, in the first hour of smoking marijuana, a user’s risk of a heart attack could increase fivefold. School performance is reduced through impaired memory and lessened ability to solve problems.

·         LONG-TERM EFFECTS:

·         Long-term use can cause psychotic symptoms. It can also damage the lungs and the heart, worsen the symptoms of bronchitis and cause coughing and wheezing. It may reduce the body’s ability to fight lung infections and illness.

·         Drug injection is a method of introducing a drug into the bloodstream via a hollow hypodermic needle and a syringe, which is pierced through the skin into the body (usually intravenous, but also intramuscular or subcutaneous). It often applies to substance dependence and recreational drug use. This act is often colloquially referred to as "slamming", "shooting [up]", "banging", "pinning", or "jacking-up", often depending on the specific drug subculture in which the term is used (i.e. heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine).

·         Although there are various methods of taking drugs, injection is favoured by some users as the full effects of the drug are experienced very quickly, typically in five to ten seconds. It also bypasses first-pass metabolism in the liver, resulting in higher bioavailability and efficiency for many drugs (such asmorphine or diacetylmorphine/heroin; roughly two-thirds of which is destroyed in the liver when consumed orally) than oral ingestion would, meaning users get a stronger (yet shorter-acting) effect from the same amount of the drug. This shorter, more intense high can lead to a dependency—both physical and psychological—developing more quickly than with other methods of taking drugs. As of 2004, there were 13.2 million people worldwide who used injection drugs, of which 22% are from developed countries.^[1]