If you suffer from cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief you can have an easy telephone pre-evaluation to see if you qualify! We will simply ask you a few questions about your medical condition.

2. What Will You Learn Today?
 The Facts about Marijuana
 Educate you on the effects, dangers, and negative risks
associated with marijuana
 Empower you to take control of your physical and
emotional health early
 Discuss ways to resist using drugs

3. What is Marijuana?
• Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried,
shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the
hemp, or cannabis, plant.
• It goes by many different names—pot, herb, weed,
grass—and stronger forms include sinsemilla hashish,
and hash oil.
• All forms of marijuana change how the brain works!
• Marijuana contains more than 400 chemicals,
including THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol).

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6. Definitions & Facts
 Tolerance – The power of enduring or resisting the action of a drug or
substance.
 Addiction - the compulsive need for or use of a habit forming substance.
 Withdrawal - the syndrome of often painful physical and psychological
symptoms that follows discontinuance of an addicting drug <a heroin addict
going through withdrawal>
 The younger you are when you start using substances, the higher your
chances of addiction to those substances. 15 y/o student who drinks has a
40% higher chance of alcohol addiction.

7. Myth, or Fact?
Marijuana is not addictive.
MYTH!
Repeated marijuana use can lead to addiction—which
means that people have difficulty controlling their drug
use and often cannot stop even though they want to, and
even though it undermines many aspects of their lives.

8. Myth, or Fact?
It’s safe to drive while under the influence of Marijuana.
MYTH!
Marijuana affects a number of skills required for safe
driving—alertness, concentration, coordination, and
reaction time—so it's not safe to drive high or to ride with
someone who's been smoking.

9. Myth, or Fact?
Marijuana won’t effect my ability to perform in sports or
other after school activities?
MYTH!
Marijuana has many short term effects such as impairing
memory, attention, judgment, coordination and balance.
The long term effects would be impaired memory and
learning skills, sleep impairment, and chronic
cough/bronchitis, risk of mental disease, anxiety or
depression.

10. Myth, or Fact?
Marijuana use, occasional or habitual, will have no effect on my
school work.
MYTH!
Compared with their peers who don't smoke, students who smoke
Marijuana tend to get lower grades and are more likely to drop out
of high school. Longtime Marijuana users report being less satisfied
with their lives, experiencing memory and relationship problems,
poorer mental and physical health, lower salaries, and less career
success.

11. Myth, or Fact?
Marijuana can help me relax from the stresses of school, work, and
life.
MYTH!
High doses of marijuana can cause psychosis or panic when you're
high. Some people experience an acute psychotic reaction
(disturbed perceptions and thoughts, paranoia) or panic attacks
while under the influence of Marijuana.

12. Myth, or Fact?
There are no withdrawal symptoms from Marijuana use.
MYTH!
The symptoms are similar in type and severity to those of nicotine
withdrawal—irritability, sleeping difficulties, anxiety, and craving.
Withdrawal symptoms can make it hard for someone to stay off
Marijuana.

13. Myth, or Fact?
Since Marijuana is used as a medicine, it can’t be that bad for me.
MYTH!
Several states have passed medical marijuana laws, but marijuana
has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) to treat any diseases. It still carries the negative
consequences and risks that non-medical Marijuana.

14. Resistance Skills
What are some ways you can say no or avoid
situations where drugs may be available?

15. Thank you for your attention!
Questions?
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