Marijuana is a green or gray mixture of dried, shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. There are over 200 slang terms for marijuana including "pot," "herb," "weed," "boom," "Mary Jane," "gangster," and "chronic." It is usually...
Q: What is marijuana? Aren't there different kinds?A: Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp plant. You may hear marijuana called by street names such as pot, herb, weed, grass,...
Marijuana's damage to short-term memory seems to occur because THC alters the way in which information is processed by the hippocampus, a brain area responsible for memory formation. Laboratory rats treated with THC displayed the same reduced...
It happens when you least expect it. You’re driving your child home after school one afternoon and asking about her day when she abruptly asks, "Mom, did you ever use marijuana when you were a kid?" Or, you’re standing in line waiting...
Even if you experimented with pot when you were younger, there’s nothing hypocritical about trying to keep your kids off of it now. Reliable and consistent evidence indicates today’s marijuana is more than twice as powerful on average...
“It’s only pot. I smoked a little weed back in my day, too. I’m sure it’s just harmless teen experimentation.” Millions of parents assume their teens are “normal” if they’re dabbling with marijuana. Although...
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