many more ways marijuana can be used to help a person medically.Marijuana is believed to effect the brain mentally. The drug depending on the dose and the person can effect the body mentally. It can impair your ability to drive or operate machinery. A person using the drug at a very high dose can find that they are having hallucinations or delusions and distortions of images. Marijuana can cause memory loss in repetitive use of the drug. Marijuana produces temporary changes in the brain functioning; for example it interferes with short-term memory ( Introduction to Psychology P.172 )During the use of the drug people can under go many different types of changes in there body. People tend to think different ways when they are high. This can be for better or worse depending on the person that is using the drug. The drug is also known to cause paranoia and the feeling of terror during the high. This can make or break someone, which will bring them to make the decision to use the drug again. Although there is no evidence that marijuana users cause them selves to suffer from psychosis or schizophrenia ( Introduction to Psychology P.172 ).Among the many effects of marijuana a persons personality can be altered or dramatically while the person is high. One can become a very easy person to get along with when before they were not or viseversa. There was also changes found in a person organization. Using the Rorschach Test, these researchers concluded during the actual use of the drug, that there was a slight decrease in the subjects drive to organize and synthesize, that there was some falling off in meaningful constructive behavior and that there was a proneness to jump to erroneous conclusions ( Marijuana and personality change P.3 )People have for many years believed marijuana to be the happy drug. Although sometimes there is someone in an experiment that has a rather bad experience these or not very at all. Usually these experiences are not ...
