Advantages And Disadvantages Of Marijuana

AN ANNALYSIS OF THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF MARIJUANA ON PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

INTRODUCTION

Over the past years our society has been ignorant the effects of marijuana as they have limited knowledge about this hemp. People often judge weed smokers around the world, reason being that the government says they can, but they need to be able to view issues from both perspectives. Marijuana is defined by the English dictionary as the dried leaves and flowers of a hemp plant which can be smoked, chewed, or consumed in different ways. Marijuana has distinctive effects on our physical and social health. When we talk of physical health, we are referring to the wellbeing of the human body while social health refers to how people interact towards

From the way our fellow students that engage in the use of marijuana behave among us, one could tell that there is a very huge difference in our ways of thinking. We as students have observed that marijuana increases the hyperactivity of a person. They turn out to be more socializing than other students and participate more in class with so much confidence and comfort ability. It is also said that when one uses a limited and acceptable amount of marijuana, they get into a friendly state with less negativity and enhanced positive thinking. Marijuana also enhance creativity as it is stated that it releases dopamine into the brain and reduce discomfort at the same

A person that uses marijuana may withdraw themselves from friends and family as a result of believing that they are being judged and nobody wants to understand them. We can relate to the situations that take place in our communities, young people tend to distant themselves from their families and end up on the streets. This happens in Namibia as well, many young people are on the streets because of marijuana, they sell this drugs on the streets, which is illegal, to make money. Nora, D et al. (2014, pp 2219-2227) state that marijuana contributes to the school dropouts of adolescence and increases the risk of addiction.

An abusive use of marijuana may lead to addiction. People that abuse marijuana for a very long time may turn out to be addicts and once one becomes an addict, the physical negative effects increase and may become severe. One may become violent at times and the possibility of them ending up doing wrong actions is very high as the drug takes over the control of their mind, news are received from different angles of Namibia of violence resulted from the use of marijuana. This sort of violence is mainly gender based violence which involve women and children being victimized by