Yannick's video: The Science Behind Marijuana How It Effects You

The science behind marijuana – How it effects you! Medical marijuana is now legal in a majority of states. A small but growing number of states and cities have legalized recreational pot as well. Marijuana still is the most commonly used illegal drug in the U.S. Marijuana has some well-proven benefits, including relief for long-term pain. But smoking marijuana can have some bad effects on your health, including making breathing problems worse. The federal ban on marijuana makes it hard to study its effects on humans. For example, very little research exists on edible marijuana. Key Chemicals Marijuana comes from the dried flowers of cannabis plants.It has more than 500 chemicals. Cannabis can have a psychoactive -- or mind-altering -- effect on you. There is this thing called THC. This is the main psychoactive agent in marijuana. Its full name is delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol. When you smoke cannabis, THC goes from your lungs into your bloodstream and then into your brain. It stimulates the part of your brain that responds to sources of pleasure, like food and sex. That lets loose a chemical called dopamine, which causes the high. THC’s effects can vary depending on who you are, the potency of the strain, whether you smoke it or eat it, and other things. It can: • Give you a relaxed sense of well-being • Heighten your senses, like make colors seem brighter • Change your sense of time • Make you anxious, afraid, or panicked • Make you hallucinate CBD. Also called cannabidiol, this is another well-studied compound. It doesn’t make you high. Instead, it can counteract the effects from THC and bring you down from any paranoia or anxiety. It also has been found to have beneficial uses in treatment the side effects of chemotherapy and treating epilepsy. Ways to Use It You can get cannabis into your body in two main ways: smoking and eating. Smoking. This, along with inhaling (vaping), is the fastest way for marijuana to work. Your bloodstream carries the THC to your brain so quickly that you may start to feel high within seconds or minutes. The amount of THC in your blood typically peaks in about 30 minutes, then tapers off in 1-4 hours. Eating or drinking. This slows marijuana’s effects because the THC has to go through your digestive system. It may take 30 minutes to 2 hours for you to get high. But it will last longer -- up to 8 hours -- than if you smoked or vaped pot. You can mix cannabis into brownies, cookies, candy, and other foods, or brew it into a tea. Whether you smoke cannabis or eat it, remember that it can: • Heighten alcohol’s effects on your body • Interact with medications. For example, it can raise the dangers of bleeding with blood thinners or make some antiviral drugs not work as well. • Hurt your concentration and motor skills. It’s dangerous to drive while you’re high. Benefits People have turned to the cannabis plant as medicine for hundreds of years. Researchers have found that cannabis can help with: • Ongoing pain (this is the most common use for medical marijuana) • Nausea or throwing up from chemotherapy • Seizures from epilepsy, Dravet syndrome or Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Evidence is limited that marijuana might help with: • Sleep problems in people with fibromyalgia, MS, long-term pain, and sleep apnea • Anxiety • Loss of appetite and weight loss in people with AIDS There is a lot when it comes to marijuana, I personally never used marijuana but might try it out in the future. Let me know what your opinion is on marijuana. Have you ever taken marijuana? Let me know down below. Thanks for watching I will see you in the next video.