WEED

Everybody seems to do weed these days. On a daily basis I see people smoking weed or I can smell it at least; I was walking to uni the other day and I saw a man pushing a pram smoking weed, I live in halls and there is a constant smell of weed throughout the blocks..everyone seems to casually smoke it as a pastime, it becoming as popular as drinking, even though it is a class B drug and the police will always take action if they catch someone in possesion of it.

Cannabis, (the official name for weed), can have very profound and serious effects on a person, but people do not seem to understand this severity.

Here are some efects that weed can have:

• smokers can become anxious, panicky, suspicious or paranoid.


• If you use cannabis and have a family background of mental illness, such as schizophrenia, you may be at increased risk of developing a psychotic illness.


• Regular, heavy use makes it difficult to learn and concentrate. Some people begin to feel tired all the time and can't seem to get motivated.


• Cannabis, like tobacco, has lots of chemical 'nasties', which can cause lung disease and possibly cancer with long-term or heavy use, especially as it is often mixed with tobacco and smoked without a filter. It can also make asthma worse, and cause wheezing in non-asthma sufferers.
  

http://www.talktofrank.com/drugs.aspx?id=172

Many different types of people take weed, all over the world. In some countries cannabis is legalized and doctors even recomend it for pain relief.

http://ehealthforum.com/health/topic125300.html

Where weed is illegal, like in the UK people still smoke weed..youngsters to conform to peer pressure, uni students, many unemployed or people of low socio economic groups..people don't seem to be that bothered that this drug is actually harmful and illegal.