1. Bell Ringer Pick up your journal/pre-test located on the chair
Begin working quietly on your own.
Please note, you may not know the answers, but do your very best!!!

2. Break Time
Water
Bathroom
Sharpen Pencils

3. Unit: Marijuana 7.1 B Knowledge of harmful and risky behaviors 7.1 E
Factors that affect school success
7.2 C
Strategies for avoiding drugs

4. What is Marijauna What Is It?
Marijuana is a mixture of the dried and shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the cannabis sativa plant. The mixture can be green, brown, or gray.
Most widely used illegal drug.
Even a very small amount of marijuana is illegal (1 joint).
More potent (stronger) today than in the 1970’s

5. How is Marijuana Used?
Smoked Joint-Marijuana rolled up in cigarette papers Bong-Marijuana smoked using a water pipe Blunt-Hollowed out cigars filled w/marijuana Eaten Not as common Placed in baked goods

6. Gateway Drug A drug that leads to other drug use
A person who uses marijuana is more likely to be exposed to and urged to try other drugs. The more marijuana a person smokes, the higher their tolerance level. Therefore, a greater amount of marijuana is needed to get high. Using marijuana puts children and teens in contact with people who use and sell other drugs.
Cigarettes/Alcohol Marijuana Hallucinogens Cocaine Heroin
Gateway
Drug
Gateway
Drug

7. Nicknames Many of these common nicknames are used in movies & music.
Pot
Weed
Hash
Mary Jane
Reefer
Chronic
Grass

8. Remember: Not “everybody’s doing it”
Remember: Not “everybody’s doing it”? What is the correlation between age & use? 8% of 8th graders 17% of 10th graders 21% of 12th graders

9. Music & Marijuana On average, teens listen to 2
Music & Marijuana On average, teens listen to 2.5 hours of music per day = 40 marijuana references per day
Based on reports from Billboard magazine…
9% of Pop Music
14% of Rock Songs
20% of R&B
36% of Country
And...
77 % of Rap Songs
reference drug & alcohol!!!

10. Short-Term Effects Coordination Reaction Time Alertness
Poor decision making skills
(sex, crime, violence)
Memory Loss
Increased Heart Rate
Anxiety
15 % of traffic accidents that end up in the ER are associated with drivers that are “high”

11. Long-Term Effects Lung Disease/Cancer
Grades – Teens with low grades are 4x more likely to have used marijuana
Depression
Crime
Increased risk for other drugs
Neurological Issues: attention span, speach

12. How Marijuana Affects Learning
Interferes with ability to concentrate
Linked to poor grades
Linked to higher dropout rates
Users are 5x more likely to not graduate

13. Myth: Marijuana is not Addicting
More kids enter treatment for marijuana than for all other illegal drugs combined!!! Withdrawal Symptoms Include: Loss of appetite Nervousness Irritability Stomach pain Aggression Anxiety Paranoia

14. Drug Abuse The Before and After
Died 7/23/11
Age 27
Died 2/11/12
Age 48

15. Inhalants

16. Table of Contents 10. Journal Entry – Drugs 11. Marijuana Pre-test 12
Table of Contents Journal Entry – Drugs 11. Marijuana Pre-test 12. Marijuana Notes 13. Marijuana Notes Cont.

17. 7th Grade Table of Contents
2. What’s Your Alcohol I.Q.?
3. Alcohol Notes-side 1
4.Alcohol Notes-side 2
5.Letter to the Governor
6.Tobacco Study Guide-side 1
 7.Tobacco Study Guide-side 2
 8.Check It Out-side 1
 9.Check It Out-side 2
10. Journal Entry-Drug Unit
11. Marijuana Pre-test
12. Marijuana Notes
13. Marijuana Notes Continued