Sasha Williams
Cause and Effect
Final Draft

In 2010, it was proven thru a drug and health survey that 17.4 million people say that they had in fact used the drug marijuana within the past month. There are many things in this world that can cause a person to start smoking marijuana. Marijuana has a major affect on the brain. This drug has an impact on your body as well.

There are different things that can cause people to start smoking. If your hanging around your friends they may pressure you into trying marijuana. Stress is also a cause for smoking ganja. Sometimes smoking marijuana is used as an escape for the real world.

If you smoke or inhale it, the feeling of euphoria is almost immediate. Depending on the quality, how much you consume and the method of consumption, marijuana can produce a feeling intense happiness and excitement by stimulating the cells in a persons brain. When marijuana is ingested in food, it takes a lot longer to get that high feeling. It may even take hours for the drug to send signals to the brain.

Marijuana can cause problems with a persons respiratory system, such as causing lung infections and bronchitis. Heavy usage of the drug marijuana can lower the ability to fight infections. It can also have a very harmful impact on the immune system. Marijuana can reduce sperm production in men and it can also disrupt a woman's menstrual cycle.

Marijuana reaches the same pleasure centers in the brain that are targeted by heroin, cocaine and