52. In 2013, approximately 455,668 people were admitted to emergency rooms for marijuana related problems.53. Addiction to marijuana can lead to costly drug rehabilitation (marijuana main problem).54. Purchasing marijuana financially contributes to various levels of criminal enterprise and enables numerous crimes and violence to occur.55. If you are arrested or cited for a marijuana related offence you may incur: fines, court costs, legal fees, jail sentence, community service time, suspended license, delayed license issuance, and criminal arrest record. You may also incur job loss, school suspension/expulsion, increased vehicle insurance rate and denial of college admittance.56. Marijuana users are 3 times more likely to develop cancer of the head and neck.57. Marijuana users risk for heart attack is nearly 5 times greater in the first hour aftersmoking pot.58. Marijuana smokers experience 55% more industrial accidents, 85% more injuries,75% increase in absenteeism, greater workers compensation claims and higher job turnover59. Marijuana users (early start age) have substantially lower incomes.60. Long term marijuana users show 70% impairment in decision making abilities.61. Driving after even a small amount of marijuana use doubles risk for fatal highwayaccident, larger dose triples risk.62. Heavy marijuana users at higher risk for gum disease before age of 32, (marijuanais responsible for, 1/3 of new cases).63. In males marijuana use causes significantly less seminal fluid, lower sperm count changes in sperm enzyme cap, reduced ability to attach to egg, abnormal sperm behavior and decreased fertility.64. Evidence suggests marijuana may be a risk factor in stroke.65. Evidence suggests marijuana may increase chances of lung, oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx cancer,66. Marijuana smoke contains 50-70% more carcinogenic hydrocarbons (cancer causing agents) than cigarette smoke.67. Woman who abuse marijuana during pregnancy or breast feeding expose their children to neurological problems, poor memory and attention, deficits in problemsolving and attentiveness, altered response to visual stimuli, impaired motor development, birth defects and retardation of fetal growth and development and lower birth weight babies. 68. Marijuana smokers increase risk of lung cancer by 5.7 times over non-smokers.69. Marijuana smokers hold harmful smoke in their lungs longer and deeper, which increases their exposure to the dangerous toxins in the drug.70. Marijuana can contain deadly molds (aspergillus) and the salmonella bacteria.71. Marijuana may suppress sex drive and contribute to sexual dysfunction.72. One in four people have the genetic profile that makes marijuana five times more likely to trigger psychotic disorders.73. 12-17 year olds who smoke marijuana are 85 times more likely to use cocaine.74. Regular marijuana use may double the risk of developing psychotic symptoms.
75. More kids enter treatment for marijuana dependency then all other illegal drugs combined. 76. Adolescent marijuana use can permanently stunt intelligence by up to 8, I.Q. points. 77. Marijuana use can cause Alzheimer like symptoms.78. Marijuana use can cause impaired disease resistance.79. Heavy marijuana users admitted marijuana use negatively impacted all aspects oftheir lives, including job performance, health, mental wellbeing and satisfactory socializing. 80. Marijuana users report greater health problems later in life.81. Even light marijuana use shows significant abnormalities in two vital brain regions (nucleus accumbens & amygdala) important in motivation and emotion. These areas control pleasure, reward and reinforcement learning.82. In the brains of marijuana users, natural rewards such as food, sex and social interaction are less satisfying. This renders the drug more important than normal life pleasures.83. 9% of marihuana users become addicted.84. THC levels of commercially available marijuana (edibleproducts) are unreliable (far weaker or up to 50% higher) and in some instances have been found to be “blatant misstatements.”85. Marijuana use may contribute to heart and artery disease among young and middle-aged adults, particularly those already at risk. 86. Research has linked marijuana use during pregnancy to brain and behavior problems in the babies. 87. Regular marijuana users experienced more antisocial behavior at work such as: stealing and lying.88. Regular marijuana users experience more relationship problems such as: intimate partner violence and controlling abuse.89. Regular marijuana users experienced ending up in lower-paying, less skilled and less prestigious jobs than non-users.90. Regular marijuana users ended up in lower social class than their parents.91. Marijuana use in late teen years (18-19) are 40% more likely to die by the age of 60.92. Marijuana use in early life is linked to poorer psychological health.93. Recreational marijuana use leads to alarming increase of fatal vehicle crashes. The facts in this list have been collected from numerous sources. They include but are not limited to:
www.theantidrug.com , National Institute of Drug Abuse (
www.nida.nih.gov ),
www.abovetheinfluence.co m ,
www.howstuffworks.com , Office of National Drug Control Policy, Drug Awareness Warning Network (DAWN), AAA, Narcotic Educational Foundation of America (
www.cnoa.org), National Center on addiction and Substance Abuse,
www.msnbc.msn.com, Denver Post and others. Contributing groups for this information include but are not limited to Yale University, Harvard University, Cardiff University, Cambridge University, Duke University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, University of
Bristol, Columbia University, University of Washington, University of Buffalo, Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Journal of American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of neuroscience, British Medical Journal, American Journal of public health, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry Kings College London, Archives of General Psychiatry, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. * Last update 04-26-16 *