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What Are The Effects Of Using Marijuana?

What Is The Scope Of Marijuana Use In Florida?

Is Marijuana A Medicine?

Marijuana Contributes To . . .

Marijuana use may cause problemswith short-term memory, attention,judgment, learning skills, coordi-nation and balance, heart rate and psychotic episodes.

Marijuana impairs cellular immunity,pulmonary immunity and compro-mises the ability to fi ght infection.

A recent study reports that adolescents who started using marijuana before the age of 18 when their brains were still developing, and continued to use into adulthood, experienced as much as an 8-point decline in IQ scores.

In 2009-2010, past month marijuana use was reported by 6.1 percent of the Florida population aged 12 years or older, an increase from 5.8 percent in 2008-2009. During the same time period, past month marijuana use increased among 12 to 17 year olds and among 18 to 25 years old.

In 2006, the Food and Drug Administration advised that no sound scientifi c studies have supported the medical use of smoked marijuana, and no human or animal data supports its safety or effi cacy for general medical use. This was re-affi rmed by the US Supreme Court in 2013.

The American Medical Association, National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society have rejected smoked marijuana as medicine.

There are cannabis-based medications already approved by the FDA and currently prescribed for use under doctor supervision. These products are developed from extracts of specifi c components of marijuana similar to how opioids are extracts from opium.

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• injuries and deaths from impaired driving

• increased ER visits, treatment admissions and addiction rates

• environmental damages

• adverse affects on education

• increased accidents, liability and insurance rates for employers

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