let me know the deepest psychological consequences for being affected as a marijuana user?
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The most striking personality change is usually in measurements of motivation, energy level, and ambition.  Heavy users of pot tend to have a decreased desire to perform rewarding tasks, anything from exercise and sex to sports.  Occasional users probably dont show much long-term change.
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List of effects\nAnti-emetic properties \nModulation of working and short-term memory \nImpairment of short-term memory in some users \nEnhancement of many other drug effects (including those of alcohol, ecstasy, tobacco, heroin, cocaine) \nAuditory or visual hallucinations at high doses in some users \nParamnesia, repetitiveness and ambiguation \nIncreased appetite (often referred to as "the munchies"), an effect of stimulation of the endocannabinoid system, which affects body weight, insulin resistance, and dyslipidemia. \nInduced sense of novelty \nIncreased or decreased sexual pleasure \nIncreased awareness of sensation \nIncreased awareness of patterns and colors \nIncreased appreciation of music and other arts \nIncreased mental activity, like metacognition \nInitial wakefulness followed by drowsiness and lassitude ('burnt out') \nIntrospective or meditative states of mind \nGain or loss of some inhibitions \nMild euphoria, feelings of general well-being \nRelaxation or stress reduction \nMild tachycardia (Increased heart rate) \nMild, temporary dry mouth (sometimes referred to as cottonmouth, pasties, or the drys (NZ)) \nMild, temporary keratoconjunctivitis sicca (sometimes referred to as blood-shot eyes, dry eyes or red eye(UK)) \nVarying amounts of paranoia and anxiety in some users
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marijuana is only *psychologically* addictive, not *physically* addictive. caffeine and alcohol are *physically* addictive (i.e. if you're addicted, you will experience withdrawal, increased tolerance, and essentially, your body physically needs the drug to function). \n\nmarijuana is only addictive in the sense that your brain will slowly adjust to repeated use of the drug, causing stuff like "amotivational syndrome" (exactly what it says - you become lazier).\n\nthe short-term effects, essentially, are that you get high. slower reflexes, sensitivity to touch and light, the whole deal. the more you have, and the more THC is in the dose, the stronger the effects. it affects your driving ability significantly. \n\nit is physically impossible to overdose on marijuana.\n\nlong-term effects are purely psychological - but there are some other issues. marijuana is a very popular gateway drug - i.e. teenagers will try it, think it's cool, and use it as a "gateway" to harder drugs, like ecstasy, cocaine, heroin... which are all highly addictive and easy to overdose on.\n\nyou can obviously get lung cancer and stuff from marijuana, but notably, studies show that you can't get emphysema from marijuana.
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Unless you live under a rock, you must know the dangers of cannabis, and you certainly should know the long-term dangers of antidepressants. Whether mixing them together has any effect on you I doubt if anyone really knows. (Cannabis can actually cause depression in some people so it begs the question: why use it AND take an ANTIdepressant at the same time? Come off the grass and you may find you really don't need to stay on psych drugs at all!)\n\nCertainly, the longer you take Cannabis, the more likely it is you will suffer from its harmful long-term effects (including the possibility of paranoid disorders including schizophrenia). The longer you take antidepressants the more likely you will suffer from their harmful long-term effects (including an abnormal brain chemistry, brain damage, severe liver damage, sexual dysfunction, tardive dyskinesia).\n\n--\nhttp://groups.msn.com/psychbusters\nDecoding Psychiatric Propaganda
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Mine was bad.  I saw snakes.  I'm deathly afraid of snakes.  Luckly one of my friends who was sober got me out of the room and helped me not to trip out over that. Then it was worse.  The walls were moving and I felt like I was in a nightmare.  Don't do LSD!!  Weed is fine for a drug to mellow you out but I never want to feel how I felt before
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"Animal research has shown that the potential for cannabinoid psychological dependence does exist, and includes mild withdrawal symptoms. Although not as severe as that for alcohol, heroin, or cocaine dependence, marijuana withdrawal is usually characterized by insomnia, restlessness, loss of appetite, irritability, anger, increased muscle activity (jerkiness), and aggression after sudden cessation of chronic use as a result of physiological tolerance. Prolonged marijuana use produces both pharmacokinetic changes (how the drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted) and pharmacodynamic changes (how the drug interacts with target cells) to the body. These changes require the user to consume higher doses of the drug to achieve a common desirable effect, and reinforce the body’s metabolic systems for synthesizing and eliminating the drug more efficiently.\n\nPreliminary research, published in the April 2006 issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, indicates that cannabis addiction can be offset by a combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy and motivational incentives. Participants in the study (previously diagnosed with marijuana dependence) received either vouchers as incentives to stay drug free, cognitive-behavioral therapy, or both over a 14-week period. At the end of 3 months, 43 percent of those who received both treatments were no longer using marijuana, compared with 40 percent of the voucher group, and 30 percent of the therapy group. At the end of a 12-month follow-up, 37 percent of those who got both treatments remained abstinent, compared with 17 percent of the voucher group, and 23 percent of the therapy group."\n\nThis, and more, available on the free, online encyclopedia, Wikipedia at:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_issues_and_the_effects_of_cannabis\n\nThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a report entitled, "Combination of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Incentives Enhance Treatment for Marijuana Addiction" at this web site:\nhttp://www.nih.gov/news/pr/apr2006/nida-01.htm\n\nHope this helps!
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Maybe I am having really bad side effects from being high.........lol
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Any thing that interfere with your mind interfere with every thin you touch in your life. Please stop the use of marijuana or any drug you are using.
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Sexual violence can have very harmful and lasting consequences for victims, families, and communities. \n\nWomen who experience both sexual and physical abuse are significantly more likely to have sexually transmitted diseases. \nThere are long-term consequences such as:\nPregnancy\nChronic pelvic pain \nPremenstrual syndrome \nGastrointestinal disorders \nGynecological and pregnancy complications \nMigraines and other frequent headaches \nBack pain \nFacial pain \nDisability preventing work \n\nVictims of sexual violence face both immediate and long-term psychological consequences \n\nImmediate psychological consequences include:\n\nShock \nDenial \nFear \nConfusion \nAnxiety \nWithdrawal \nGuilt \nNervousness \nDistrust of others \nSymptoms of Post-traumatic stress disorder\nEmotional detachment \nSleep disturbances \nFlashbacks \nMental replay of assault\n\nMental chronic psychological consequences include:\n\nDepression \nAttempted or completed suicide \nAlienation \nPost-traumatic stress disorder \nUnhealthy diet-related behaviors \nFasting \nVomiting \nAbusing diet pills \nOvereating
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Effects on the Brain\n\nScientists have learned a great deal about how THC acts in the brain to produce its many effects. When someone smokes marijuana, THC rapidly passes from the lungs into the bloodstream, which carries the chemical to organs throughout the body, including the brain.\n\nIn the brain, THC connects to specific sites called cannabinoid receptors on nerve cells and influences the activity of those cells. Some brain areas have many cannabinoid receptors; others have few or none. Many cannabinoid receptors are found in the parts of the brain that influence pleasure, memory, thought, concentration, sensory and time perception, and coordinated movement4.\n\nThe short-term effects of marijuana can include problems with memory and learning; distorted perception; difficulty in thinking and problem solving; loss of coordination; and increased heart rate. Research findings for long-term marijuana abuse indicate some changes in the brain similar to those seen after long-term abuse of other major drugs. For example, cannabinoid (THC or synthetic forms of THC) withdrawal in chronically exposed animals leads to an increase in the activation of the stress-response system5 and changes in the activity of nerve cells containing dopamine6. Dopamine neurons are involved in the regulation of motivation and reward, and are directly or indirectly affected by all drugs of abuse.\n\n\nEffects on the Heart\n\nOne study has indicated that an abuser's risk of heart attack more than quadruples in the first hour after smoking marijuana7. The researchers suggest that such an effect might occur from marijuana's effects on blood pressure and heart rate and reduced oxygen-carrying capacity of blood.\n\n\nEffects on the Lungs\n\nA study of 450 individuals found that people who smoke marijuana frequently but do not smoke tobacco have more health problems and miss more days of work than nonsmokers8. Many of the extra sick days among the marijuana smokers in the study were for respiratory illnesses.\n\nEven infrequent abuse can cause burning and stinging of the mouth and throat, often accompanied by a heavy cough. Someone who smokes marijuana regularly may have many of the same respiratory problems that tobacco smokers do, such as daily cough and phlegm production, more frequent acute chest illness, a heightened risk of lung infections, and a greater tendency to obstructed airways9. Smoking marijuana possibly increases the likelihood of developing cancer of the head or neck. A study comparing 173 cancer patients and 176 healthy individuals produced evidence that marijuana smoking doubled or tripled the risk of these cancers10.\n\nMarijuana abuse also has the potential to promote cancer of the lungs and other parts of the respiratory tract because it contains irritants and carcinogens9,11. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50 to 70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than does tobacco smoke12. It also induces high levels of an enzyme that converts certain hydrocarbons into their carcinogenic form—levels that may accelerate the changes that ultimately produce malignant cells13. Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which increases the lungs' exposure to carcinogenic smoke. These facts suggest that, puff for puff, smoking marijuana may be more harmful to the lungs than smoking tobacco.\n\n\nOther Health Effects\n\nSome of marijuana's adverse health effects may occur because THC impairs the immune system's ability to fight disease. In laboratory experiments that exposed animal and human cells to THC or other marijuana ingredients, the normal disease-preventing reactions of many of the key types of immune cells were inhibited14. In other studies, mice exposed to THC or related substances were more likely than unexposed mice to develop bacterial infections and tumors15,16.\n\n\nEffects of Heavy Marijuana Use on Learning and Social Behavior\n\nResearch clearly demonstrate
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It depends on the severity of the addiction. If it isn't too bad, there could be minor pain, nausea, headache. If it's bad, it could be very painful. There could be fatigue, nausea, and other physical symptoms. It also could involve some depression.
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NONE, NONE, NONE, NONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nThe disadvantages are your friends and family never seeing you again. The pain they will have to live with if you do it and the guilt they will feel. There is nothing in this world that is that bad!!! Just remember that God would never put you through something you could not handle. (This to shall pass!)
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though family personal experience it never stops at cannibis. bet you have tried other things right? it changes you as a person you become angry and self obsessed, paronoid, lazy "carnt be bothered" secrective, a liar. those are a few common traits. next thing your "mates" have moved on and your on your own wanting to get that bit more high. you will spend every waking moment wanting drugs wishing you had listened but people never do! its not a funny subject it really happens this way i have seen it and due to the "disease" called drugs had to cremate the my brother 2 months ago.
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As a former long term user (10+ years) I haven't really noticed a whole lot of long term side affects.  All of the side affects that I noticed stopped after about 2 months of being clean.  Some of those were short term memory loss, lack of motivation to the point of procrastination, laziness/tiredness, and social anxiety problems.  It is also thought that a person who uses does not mature mentally or emotionally past the point they were at when they started using until after they stop using.  Never noticed any kind of paranoid/schizophrenic type of stuff.  Also smoking seeds is supposed to cause sterility.  There is the possibility that it causes cancer or other respiratory diseases although as far as I know it has not been proven.  Also, I can state that I have not had any lasting affects to my memory or attention.  I am currently enrolled in college and am maintaining a 3.76 GPA with a lot less studying than a lot of people.  In addition I smoked before taking my ACT (was high when took) and scored a 27 composite score.
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yes; pot can make you anxious AND paranoid. Plus the pot available nowadays is stronger and cut/cured with substances not used in the 60s and 70s, and is more addictive and potentially lethal.\n\nBaby, you need help to break your cycle. If you want to. I would seek out drug counseling, at the least look into Narc Anon and get some help.  There is absolutely nothing positive or helpful for your quality of life in the long run to be found in doing drugs. They postpone reality and distort it as well.\n\nPlease find help to do what's best for you and those who love you, who I am sure are worried about you.\n\nGod bless you.
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The answer to this is more difficult then your might imagine due to the difficulty in performing research on the actual effects of marijuana.\n\nThe overall answer is likely no, but it is less harmful then many might imagine.\n\nIt appears that marijuana is not good for your mental health, a variety of studies have shown a correlation of marijuana use with various mental illnesses, but this is only a correlation and has yet to be shown to be an actual cause of mental illness.\n\nHealth effects on the body and thought to be similar to that of tobacco use, yet studies have yet to show a link with lung cancer and other negative effects of tobacco use.  This could be due to both the chemical makeup of marijuana and the way in which marijuana is smoked.\n\nMarijuana has been shown to be beneficial to help certain people deal with complications of treatment for cancer and HIV/AIDS.  It also can be useful in dealing with chronic pain.\n\nOverall, from a health prospective you are better off staying away from Marijuana use.  Under certain circumstances Marijuana use could be helpful to you, but I would recommend only pursuing this after long discussions with a medical professional
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SHORT AND LONG TERM EFFECTS\n \n\nShort Term and Long Term Effects\n\nPhysical Symptoms:\n\nSevere weight loss - sometimes up to 50 - 100 pounds. \n\nRotting teeth - teeth may first turn gray, then black; gum disease brought on by constriction of the gums' blood vessels can cause loss of teeth. \n\nBody odor - user loses interest in personal hygiene. The chemicals used to manufacture meth are excreted through the perspiration and emit a bad smell. \n\nScars and open sores - hallucinations cause the user to scratch or gouge at imaginary "bugs." The body also releases histamines which causes itching. \n\nInability to sleep for hours or days, followed by severe agitation and a sedated crash lasting many hours or for days. \n\nPsychological/Behavioral Symptoms: \n\nDue to the drug's ability to overwhelm and over-stimulate the users' nervous system, chronic meth users may experience any or all of the following:\n\nInitial euphoria - a feeling of great happiness or well-being; bliss. \n\nDepression - feelings of sadness, dejection. \n\nDelusion - a false belief held as a result of self-deception mental disorder. \n\nPsychosis - a severe mental disorder, with or without organic damage, characterized by deterioration of normal intellectual and social functioning and by withdrawal from reality. \n\nParanoia - a chronic psychosis characterized by delusions of persecution or of grandeur. \n\nViolence - physical force exerted to violate, damage, or abuse