How does Marijuana Effect the Body?
How Marijuana Smoking Affects the Body * Adversely affects normal cell formation. * Produces feelings of isolation and depersonalization. * Produces shakes, lack of coordination and headaches. * Makes any mental or emotional problem worse. * Increases the heart rate. * Has 50 percent more tar per ounce than tobacco. * Decreases air flow and creates loss of lung capacity in little more than a month of regular smoking. * Produces chronic irritation of nasal and lung passages. * Creates precancerous changes in the lungs of smokers in their 20s. * Suppresses sex drive and sexual performance with prolonged use. * Can lead to impotence. * Harms the developing fetus. * Is associated with increased still births, neonatal deaths, decreased birth weight and abnormal reactions in children born to mothers on marijuana. * Decreases brain response, affects thinking and brain function, creates confusion and problems with short and long term memory, and distorts perception of time. * Causes blackouts.
