What does research demonstrate about the effects of marijuana?
The Effects Marijuana Has On an Individual
Michael Garcia
Motlow State Community College
Introduction
The use of marijuana is a much debated topic in most states. Marijuana has many effects to the human body that many people could agree on. Some effects may be good and some may be bad. Researches have come up with a conclusion on the effects it has towards the human body. For example, it helps with nausea and vomiting for people who are have chemo therapy. It is hard to determine all of the symptoms for using marijuana, since it is illegal in most states in the United States. In the view of a nursing student, she believes that people don’t have enough proof and facts about what happens to the body once it consumes marijuana. Either way she thinks they are some side effects in consuming marijuana like Hypertension, coughing, fast heart beats, and many more in consuming marijuana like Hypertension, coughing, fast heart beats, and many more. Dr. Michael Schwartz is testing and trying to figure out most of the effects marijuana does to the body.
Review of Literature Colorado legalized the use of medical marijuana in the year 2000 (Scriber 1). This allowed people with serious illnesses and that are close to death. The people who have this benefit have to go through a physician approval. In the article Marijuana legalization in Colorado: a nursing student’s perspective, Kelly C. Scriber mentioned that “The disease process where marijuana medicinal use has been most studied are in oncology for the management of pain” (Scriber 1). Nurses in Colorado are trained different now that it was legalize in Colorado for recreation they have to tell them the risk factors of the use of marijuana. Some effects that marijuana has according to the article written by Kelly Scriber. The symptoms she says are hypertension, tachycardia, postural hypertension, cough, high risk for lung infections, dizziness, drowsiness, confusion, hallucinations, and suicidal ideation. These are some of the symptoms that marijuana has on people. Marijuana can also help you in other ways. According Natalie McGill, “More than a dozen U.S. states have decriminalized the possession of marijuana, meaning it is no longer a criminal offense for someone to have small amounts of the drug, such as an ounce or less” (McGill 1). People that are in Colorado are worried about food poisoning. Studies show that if a teen consumes marijuana it could influence the way they drive and they are more likely to get into an automotive accident. Nora Volkow said, “It is important to alert the public that using marijuana in the teen years brings health, social and academic risk” (McGill 1). Some people put marijuana in edible products. Marijuana can be consumed in many ways like by smoking it, eating it, chewing it, and now you can put it in an e-cig. “Synthetic cannabinoid-containing products may appeal to younger, first time users of drug” (Howden Naughton 1). Marijuana can cause seizures, increase blood pressure and temperature, vomiting and agitation. The designers that have tried to substitute for marijuana are not safe and have terrible side effects. A 48-year-old woman was diagnose with respiratory unit with an infected right apical bulla. She had smoked twenty joints of marijuana a year and also thirty packs of cigarettes a year. “Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug worldwide and the second most commonly smoked substances after tobacco” (Howden Naughton 1). That proves how marijuana is a big influence in people’s life. Not many studies of the effect of marijuana have been done but the ones that have the results shows that marijuana can be addicting. Not many people see the effects because there are not many. Marijuana can cause almost the same effects as a person who smokes marijuana.
Conclusion
Many people are debating whether marijuana should be legalize in the rest of the United States. Marijuana should be legalize in the United States for the best of everyone. There is really not many effects that cause a person to die from it. Marijuana has the same effects as pretty much any person that smokes marijuana. Some research out there in the world might find something that is wrong with marijuana but for now it helps people that are sick not feel the pain as much and lets people have a good time.

References
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McGill, Natalie. “As marijuana decriminalization spreads, public health prepares: health effects, regulations examined.” The Nation’s Health Sept. 2014: 1+. Academic OneFile. Web. 11 Nov. 2014.
Scriber, Kelly C. “Marijuana legalization in Colorado: a nursing student’s perspective.” Colorado Nurse May 2014: 14 Academic OneFile. Web. 11 Nov. 2014.