Weed: Family Guide to Marijuana Myths and Facts

by Scott A. Teitelbaum, Michael F. Nias

Overview

The marijuana grown today is exceptionally potent. It is many times more powerful than the marijuana sold in the 1960s and 1970s, due to genetic engineering. Yet many people still subscribe to the belief that marijuana is safe to use. In Weed: Family Guide to Marijuana Myths and Facts, addiction experts Scott Teitelbaum and Michael Nias respond to such widespread myths about marijuana, giving balanced and honest answers grounded in facts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780983688235
Publisher:	University of Florida's Department of Psychiatry
Publication date:	04/23/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

1 Marijuana Myths and Facts 1

2 Can Marijuana Be Lethal? 6

3 Marijuana and Legality 11

4 Marijuana, Focus, and Cognition 17

5 Marijuana as a Gateway to Drugs 23

6 Is Sex Better on Marijuana? 28

7 Marijuana and Driving 33

8 Drug Testing and Marijuana 39

9 Can Marijuana Keep You Out of College or the Armed Forces? 44

10 My Parents Smoked Weed-Why Can't I? 51

11 Marijuana and the Adolescent Brain 58

12 Marijuana and Psychiatric Problems 64

13 Is Marijuana Addictive? 67

14 Medical Marijuana Pros and Cons 74

15 Complications of Smoking Marijuana 81

16 Myths and Facts Revisited 86

Glossary 89

Acknowledgments 93

Notes 95

Index 105