Marijuana - Pot - Cannabis

4 times more dangerous than cigarette smoking
3 times more tar in the lungs and 5 times more carbon monoxide

Psychoactive substance is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – steroid structure found in the sex hormones and in certain hormones of the adrenal glands. THC accumulates in the ovaries and testes.

Women – upsets menstrual cycle, tolerated and then restored.
Men – lowers blood testosterone, lowers sperm count, greater than usual impotency and diminished libido. Sperm motility affected and an increase in number of abnormal sperm.

Effects the synthesis of DNA. In animals linked with increased fetal deaths and malformations.

Cocaine & Crack

In mice – teratogenic even at non-toxic levels.
Humans – decrease in weight of fetus, higher malformation rate and increased still birth rate.

Crack is a cocaine derivative which is purer than cocaine. Withdrawal symptoms in the new born are severe.

“CANNABIS AFFECTS THE COPING ABILITY OF EVERYTHING FROM THE SINGLE CELL TO THE WHOLE INDIVIDUAL”

Dr Marietta Issidorides

Dr Gabriel Nahas

The user becomes tolerant of the drug and must use more and more to achieve a high.

But, in-between the highs the become depressed, fatigued, apathetic and suicidal.