Health Effects of Marijuana:

• One joint causes the heart to race and overwork. People with heart conditions are at risk.
• Marijuana is commonly contaminated with the fungus aspergillus, which can cause serious respiratory tract and sinus infections.
• Marijuana lowers the body's immune system response making users more susceptible to infection.
• Chronic Marijuana smoking causes changes in brain cells and brain waves. The brain does not work as efficiently or effectively. Long-term brain damage may occur.
• Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and 60 other chemicals in marijuana concentrate in the ovaries and testes.
• Chronic smoking of marijuana in males causes a decrease in testosterone and an increase in estrogen, the female hormone. Therefore, the sperm count is reduced, leading to temporary sterility.
• Chronic smoking of marijuana in females causes a decrease in fertility.
• A higher than normal incidence of stillborn births, early termination of pregnancy, and higher infant mortality rate during the first few days of life are common in pregnant marijuana smokers.
• Marijuana's THC causes birth defects including brain damage, spinal cord, forelimbs, liver, and water on the brain and spine in test animals.
• Prenatal exposure may cause underweight newborns.
• Fetal exposure may decrease visual functioning.

Marijuana User's mental function can display the following effects:

• delayed decision making
• diminished concentration
• impaired short-term memory
• impaired signal detection
• impaired tracking
• erratic cognitive function
• distortion of time estimation

Workplace Issues of Marijuana:

• Marijuana's THC is stored in body fat and slowly released.
• Marijuana smoking has long-term effects on performance.
• Increased THC potency in modern marijuana increases the impairment.
• Combining alcohol or other depressant drugs with marijuana increases impairment.

The part of marijuana that gets you high is called Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. Most people just call this THC, but this is confusing: your body will change Delta-9-THC into more inert molecules known as metabolites, which don't get you high. Unfortunately, these chemicals also have the word 'tetrahydrocannabinol' in them and they are also called THC - so many people think that the metabolites get you high. Marijuana only keeps you high for a few hours, and it is not right to think that a person who fails a drug test is always high on drugs, either. THC is not water soluble which means that every time you use, it needs some place to stick to. That's where your fat cells come in. THC is stored in your fat cells. The more you have, the longer the THC will remain.

Depending on your history of us, 30 - 90 days later a test can still come up positive for THC. THC and its metabolites stay in the blood for days and in the fatty deposits of the body much longer. About 30% of THC that is ingested may remain in the body a full week after smoking. Some remnants from a single dose of THC may be detectable up to three weeks later. If you smoke say three to five times a week and have been smoking for three to five years then it can take upto 90 days before marijuna is undetectable in your system.

Urine and Blood Cleansing Program

ACAPULCO GOLD : a very potent strain of marijuana from Acapulco, Mexico.

ACID : LSD

ACID HEAD : user of LSD, "Acid Freak"

AIRHEAD : under the influence of marijuana

ALCOHOL : booze, juice, sauce

ALLEY JUICE : very cheap wine, "Grapes"

AMPHETAMINES : speed, crystal, crank, meth, black beauties, bennies, uppers, dexies, 357 magnums

ANGEL DUST : Phencyclidine or PCP

ARTILLERY : equipment for shooting drugs

BACK-UP : permitting blood to back up into a syringe to ensure the needle is in a vein

BAD TRIP : unpleasant LSD experience

BAG : packet of drugs, usually a standard amount for sale

BAG MAN : person who transports money

BALLOON : small amount of contained narcotics

BANG : to inject narcotics

BARBS : Barbiturates; "downers, "reds"

BEAN : capsules for drugs

BEAT : to cheat someone

BENNIES : Benzedrine; "peaches"

BIG C : Cocaine

BIG CHIEF : Mescaline

BIG MAN : supplier of drugs

BINDLE : a small packet of drug powder

BLACK BEAUTIES : Amphetamines

BLACK HOLLIES : Amphetamines

BLACK RUSSIAN : Hashish

BLACK-OUT : amnesia for events occurring while heavily intoxicated with alcohol, other sedative/hypnotic drugs

BLASTED : high on drugs

BLAZE : Marijuana

BLOTTERS : LSD

BLOW : smoke Marijuana; sniff Cocaine

BLUE DEVILS : Amobarbital

BLUES : Valium

BLUNTS : a cigar slit open and filled with marijuana

BOMBED OUT : very much intoxicated by narcotics

BOMBITA : mixture of Cocaine & Heroin

BONG : a cylindrical water pipe for smoking narcotics, especially Marijuana

BOOST : to steal

BOOZE : alcohol (beer, wine, liquor)

BREAD : money

BRICK : a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of tightly compacted Marijuana or Hashish

BRING DOWN : come off a drug

BROKER : go-between for a drug deal

BUDS : Marijuana

BUMMER : bad experience with drugs

BUNDLE : multiple bags of a drug

BURN : cheated bv a pusher

BURNOUT : heavy user of drugs

BUSTED : arrested on a drug-related charge

BUTTONS : peyote or mushrooms

BUY : purchase drugs

BUZZED : mildly intoxicated

CACTUS : Mescaline or Peyote

CANDY : Barbiturates or Cocaine

CANDYMAN : drug supplier

CAPS : drug capsule

CARTWHEELS : Amphetamines

CHARGED UP : under the influence of drugs

CHASING THE DRAGON : a particular way of inhaling Heroin

CHINA WHITE : a very pure white Heroin

CHIPPING : occasional use of drugs

CHIPPY : person who uses drugs infrequently

CLEAN : drug free; not having drugs in one's possession

COASTING : being high on drugs

COCAINE : crack, coke, booth, blow, railers, snow, ringer, divits, toot, cola, rocks, blast, white dust, ivory flakes, nose candy, mobbeles

COKE BROKE : financially incapacitated from supporting Cocaine habit

COLD TURKEY : sudden withdrawal from drugs

COLOMBO : Marijuana grown in Columbia

COME DOWN : the ending of a drug experience

CONNECT : to purchase drugs

CONNECTION : supplier of drugs

COOKER : usually a spoon or bottle cap used to heat drugs for injection

COP : to obtain drugs

COP-OUT : to evade an issue

CRACK : Cocaine prepared for smoking

CRASH : to sleep off the effects of drugs

CRYSTALS : Methamphetamine

CUT : o adulterate drugs

CUT OUT : to leave from someplace

DAGGA : South African word for Marijuana

DEALER : someone who sells illegal drugs

DECK : a packet of drugs

DEXIES : Dexadrine, or"dex"

DIME BAG : $10 worth of a narcotic

DOLLIES : Methadone

DOPE : a general term for drugs of abuse

DOWNS : depressants such as Barbiturates, Tranquilizers

DRIED OUT : having gone through a withdrawal program for drugs or alcohol

DROP : to take a drugs orally; a place where money or drugs are left

DRUGGIE : a narcotic user or addict

DRUNK PILLS : Valium

DUST : narcotics in powder form

DUSTING : sprinkling a narcotic powder on another drug such as PCP on Marijuana

DYNAMITE : high quality, potent drugs

EASY SCORE : obtaining drugs without difficulty

EIGHTH : one-eighth of a pound of drugs

ELEPHANT : PCP

EXPERIENCE : trip on LSD

FACTORY : place where illicit drugs are prepared for sale

FIX : an injection of drugs

FLAKE : Cocaine

FLASHBACK : recurrence of previous hallucinations