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Marijuana is the most controversial drug as to the danger for dependency, physical health and mental problem. Don't get mislead! Most of the hard drug users have started their addiction with marijuana.
Drug rehab centers can be really confusing with all the different programs and philosophies in Michigan. There are different school of thought on marijuana. We will try to teach you what the drug really is. Remember if Marijuana would be so "innocent", you would not be reading this website now. Drug rehabilitation is a process with different phases that will bring the individual to a drug free life.
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Marijuana use in Michigan
Cannabis is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the nation. A dry, shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa, it mostly is smoked as a cigarette (joint, nail), or in a pipe (bong). It also is smoked in blunts, which are cigars that have been emptied of tobacco and refilled with cannabis, often in combination with another substance. It can also be mixed in food or brewed as a tea. As a more concentrated, resinous form it is named hashish and, as a sticky black liquid, hash oil. Cannabis smoke has a pungent and distinctive, principally sweet-and-sour odor. There are countless street terms for marijuana such as pot, herb, weed, grass, widow, ganja, and hash, as well as names derived from trademarked varieties of cannabis, such as Bubble Gum, Northern Lights, Fruity Juice, Afghani #1, and a number of Skunk varieties.
The major active chemical in cannabis is THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol). The membranes of certain nerve cells in the brain contain protein receptors that bind to THC. Once securely in place, THC kicks off a series of cellular reactions that eventually lead to the high that users feel when they smoke marijuana.
In 2004, 14.6 million Americans age 12 and older used cannabis at least once in the 30 days prior to being surveyed. Approximately 6,000 people a day in 2004 tried marijuana for the first time—2.1 million Americans. Of these, 63.8 percent were minors. In the last half of 2003, cannabis was the third most frequently abused drug mentioned in drug-related hospital emergency department (ED) visits in the continental United States, at 12.6 percent, following cocaine (20 percent) and alcohol (48.7 percent)2.
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