Marijuana is one of the perpetually abused substances across the world, with scores of users experiencing adverse health problems every year because of its usage, from lung cancer to other serious problems.
In addition, prolonged usage of the substance has been depicted to co-relate with cases of memory loss and mental illnesses.
They are very serious findings that make the drug even dangerous, more so for young people just eking out their academic limelight.
In the case of mental illness, marijuana definitely has a serious effect, although it is yet to be understood if its usage actually brings a mental disorder, since it is hard to disentangle the effects of its usage from other distinct factors that might be predisposed individually as cases of mental problems.
After the use of the substance, patients with Schizophrenia have depicted some very disturbed mental cases of thoughts and perceptions.
The substance also comes about with symptoms of depression and anxiety that triggers ideas of suicide.
However, a more detailed relationship of cause and effect between marijuana and some of these symptoms is yet to be studied but does not underscore the seriousness lying their in.
The order of usage is that a depressed, stressed and anxious individual might use the substance for its effects of mellowing the users and calming them, although the irony is that people who use the substance frequently experience panic and paranoia On the other hand, long and short -term users of marijuana have been known to have an impaired attention and deeply entrenched memory issues that have diminish the ability and capacity to learn.
In teenagers and young adults, the effects could have devastating effects since chemicals that have been ascertained to be in the substance could easily interfere with creation of memories as well as the endowed ability of retaining knowledge.