Marijuana consumption and its health issues
Recently, a student’s death in Colorado hotel raises all the cliché questions in a newer manner, ‘how healthy it is to consume marijuana in an edible form?’ or ‘is it healthy anyway?’ Though aware of the several short and long term effects of consuming marijuana had not decreased its intake. Contrarily, licensing the drug in some countries had increased the availability in open stores while this had made the consumers to use marijuana as they will oblivious of the effects.
Consumption and uses of marijuana:
Studies show that 1 of 3 Americans had consumed marijuana throughout their lives once or multiple. However, the preference lies in consume marijuana in hand-rolled cigarettes; but there are also several option, like water pipes, inhaling smokes and using vaporisers. While these are the liquid and gas form, solid intakes happen in mixing in cookies, tea or candy. Mixing marijuana in cookies was the reason that the student in Colorado had jumped off the balcony and died. These are the intake options that somehow decrease the THC or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol; and this is for the users a sin-like. So now, the users had undertaken a newer route; users started to extract the THC resins that offers stronger addiction to consumers.
Health issues:
It is proven through several studies that consuming and using marijuana is a regular manner increases several medical disorders. This incorporates from affecting the immunity system to affect the respiratory system; from damaging the lungs to create unusual inflammation in the body. However, this is the only or there may be several other reasons of the Colorado-student to die; as all the effects of consuming ample amount of marijuana for a single use is still unknown properly. Again, being a compound with several unknown materials within other affects are simply unknown or undetected. But it was made sure by scientists that the cancer causing element is 50%-70% more active in a single inhale of cannabis.
Apart from this, the long term affects of inhaling cannabis increases infertility in men by deforming the sperms. This continues with abnormal cell division and giving birth to premature or abnormal babies. Though awakened several times by international medical centres, apart from the physical affects, the mental affects had been put more emphasis. And these are also the reasons that cause maximum death worldwide for consuming cannabis as youngsters cannot handle the consequences of health. The addiction in this period grows more hampering the social, family, and daily lifestyle.
