MARIJUANA: A TREAT OR A THREAT?

A Term Paper

Presented to

Mr. Albert Braga

Mindanao Polytechnic College

In Partial Fulfillment

Of the Requirements for

English 2

By:

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• Casumpang, Kenneth Jay L.
• Catalan, Jet Marck Reil E.
• Claudio, Randy Jr. L.
• Colong, Argie L.
 • Delig, Edjohn C.

• Dibo, Jimmy Jr. D.

• Dumanig, Rabi M.
• Ebrona, Keven G.
• Gasmin, Jester I.
• Gerodias, Russel Jay M.

List of Graph

• Answers of the female respondents to:

Question no.1 “If marijuana I addictive”

• Answers of the female respondents to:

Question no. 2 “Have you tried using marijuana”

• Answers of the female respondents to:

Question no. 3 “Who influences you”

• Answers of the female respondents to:

Question no. 4 “Do you have plans to stop using from it”

• Answers of the female respondents to:

Question no. 5 “Have you done negative deeds

under the influence of marijuana”

• Answers of the male respondents to:

Question no. 1 “Have you tried using marijuana”

 • Answers of the male respondents to:

Question no. 2 “Have you tried using marijuana”

• Answers of the male respondents to:

Question no. 3 “Have you tried using marijuana”

• Answers of the male respondents to:

Question no. 4 “Have you tried using marijuana”

• Answers of the male respondents to:

Question no. 5 “Have you tried using marijuana”

Chapter 1

THE PROBLEM

• Introduction:

Illegal drugs are global problems. More than half a billion people abuse drugs
worldwide. The images span all segments of society. The urban professional snorting
cocaine in a night club: the glue-sniffing street children in the slums of the developing
countries; including our own; the farmer addicted to the opium poppy he grows; and the
teenage ecstasy user in a comfortable suburban home.

There is a direct link between drugs increasing crime and violence rate. Using illegal
drugs has resulted among other negative outputs, lost of wages, soaring healthcare costs,
broken families, and the deteriorating communities.

In some countries, addict supporting this vice commit more than 50 per cent thefts.
Revenues from illegal drugs fund some of the most deadly armed conflicts. Equally jarring
are the social costs: street violence, gang welfare, domestic crime, urban decay and
shattered lives.

The worst is the fact that some public officials military leaders, vested with public
trusts, are being identified as coddlers and protectors of drug lords.

We are engaged in a never-ending struggle against dreaded menace-DRUGS.

One of which is marijuana.

Marijuana or Cannabis Sativa is one of the commonly abused illicit drugs. Long-term
marijuana abuse can lead to addiction for some people; that is, they abuse the drugs
compulsively even it interferes with family, school, work, and recreational activities.

It is also smoked in blunts, which are cigars that have been emptied into tobacco and
tea. As a more concentrated, resinous form it is called hashish and, as a sticky black liquid,
hashes oil. Marijuana smoke has a pungent and distinctive, usually sweet-and-sour odor.

There are countless street terms for marijuana including pot, herb, weed, grass, widow,
ganja, and hash, as well as terms derived from trademarked varieties if cannabis, such as
Bubble Gum, Northern Lights, Fruity Juice, Afghani #1, and a number of skunk varieties.

In 2005, 97.5 millions Americans age 12 And older used marijuana at least once in a
month prior to being surveyed. About 6,000 people a day in 2004 used marijuana for the
first time. Of these, 63.8% were under age 18. In the last half of 2003, marijuana was the
third most commonly abused drug mentioned in drug-continental United States, at 12.6
percent, following cocaine (20%) and alcohol (48.7%).

Prevalence of lifetime, annual, and use within the last 30 days for marijuana
remained stable among 10th and 12th –graders surveyed between 2003 and 2004. However,
8th-graders reported a significant decline in 30-day use and a significant increase in
perceived harmfulness of smoking marijuana once or twice and regularly.

Trends in disapproval of using marijuana once or twice regularly and occasionally

rose among 8th graders as well, and 10th-graders reported an increase in disapproval of
occasional and regular use for the same period.

Medical opinion holds that marijuana contains 360 compounds besides

cannabinoids, and the smoke of marijuana cigarette contains noxious vapors of carbon
monoxide, acetaldehyde and vinyl chloride, as well as phenol, creosol, and naphthalene.
Marijuana smoke has twice as many cancer-producing substances (benzanthracene and
benzopyrene) as tobacco cigarettes. Prolonged smoking of marijuana can result persistent
impairment of memory and of psychomotor performances.

Another conflicting view concerning to the effects of marijuana in medical panorama

includes; marijuana has been used medically in treatment of glaucoma, epilepsy and
asthma. Moreover, the use of marijuana to relieve nausea, vomiting and can produce
anticancer drugs.

Just about all marijuana users will insist that they become more creative when high
on marijuana. As long as 1840’s French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote about the creativity
marijuana stirred within him, but he agonized over his inability to do anything about it
because of marijuana’s lethargy including actions. This is tranquil an accurate assessment
of the effects of marijuana on creativity.

It is by all means that marijuana is not a plant it is a mixture of dried leaves, a stems,
and flowering tops and stalks of the Indian hemp plant (cannabis sativa). Hashish, a gummy
powder made from the resin (cannabin) exuded by the plant’s flower tops.

This condition has encouraged the researchers to put Marijuana as their subject,
bearing in mind not just its pessimistic side but rather both sides. Is marijuana the most
dangerous and depraved plant ever made? Or can Marijuana be the greatest fad since sliced
bread and a bequest from God?

Significance of the Study

From ancient to present years marijuana is widely used in different applications,

may it be in the field of medicine, pain killing, ecstatic effects or religious purposes. History
shown that the effect of marijuana can be beneficial to people yet, in the present day due to
advances in research techniques, skeptic are not so amiable to call marijuana beneficial. Up
to now no approved drug so far actually makes the eye drainage system more efficient than
marijuana.

Scientist themselves formulated conclusions conflicting on the idea of the another,

this means that up to this point of time the debate on legalizing marijuana is still a sensitive
whether to use it on medical purposes or not.

With this situation presented, there is an urgent need for us to derive into correct
conclusions and to weigh in positive and the negative effects of marijuana particularly.
 This research study helps to inform the populace especially the teenagers in the
effects of Marijuana either on taking it moderately or abusively. This research study
explores the possible effects of Marijuana in the psychological or physical aspects of the
person using it. The researchers aimed at knowing the basics about marijuana, its causes
and effects.

This researched study provides greater learning and understanding about Marijuana
as it discusses various literatures. A number of Marijuana treated disease were also studied.

This research study enhanced the knowledge of the researchers to a wider

knowledge about Marijuana, most especially.

B. Objectives of the study

• To know what is marijuana?

• To know what are the positive and negative effects of Marijuana.

• To know if there are enough bases that Marijuana should be considered legal.
Illegal.

• To know what are the causes why the community prefers to use Marijuana.

• To know who has the more number of Marijuana users.

C. Statement of the Problem

This study answered the following questions:

• What is Marijuana?

• What are the positive and negative effects of Marijuana?

• Are there enough bases that Marijuana should be considered legal? Illegal?

• What are the causes why the community prefers to use Marijuana?

• Who has the more number of Marijuana users?

D. Definition of Terms

Marijuana- a crude drug preparation made from a hemp plant cannabis sativa.

The flowering tops of the plant secrete a sticky resin that contains the psychoactive
materials for which marijuana is used. The plant is dioecious (which means both male and
female).

THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) - The main active chemical in marijuana. The

membranes of certain nerve cells in the brain contain protein receptors that bind to THC.

Cannabidiol (CBD) - a chemical found in marijuana, inhibits growth of cancer cells in

animals. These compounds have some of the properties of THC, but cause less psychoactive
effects-the high.

Dronabinol (Marinol). Dronabinol (dro-NAB-in-ol) is a man-made version of THC

available by prescription. It’s used to prevent nausea and vomiting after cancer
chemotherapy when other medicines for these side effects don’t work, and to increase
appetite in people with AIDS.

Hashish- a gummy powder made from the resin (cannabin) exuded by plant’s flower tops.

E. Review of Related Literature

This chapter reviews concepts and studies relevant to the present investigation.

Marijuana a crude drug preparation made from a hemp plant cannabis sativa. The
flowering tops of the plant secrete a sticky resin that contains the psychoactive materials
for which marijuana is used. The plant is dioecious (which means both male and female).
Marijuana can be smoke in cigarette and pipes and mix it with food and drinks.

Marijuana is a minor hallucinogen that has an active ingredients THC 9delta-9-

tetrahydrocannabinol). It is commonly called mary jane, pot, brownies, pampapogi, damo,
tea, joint, dope, grass (terms for marijuana are often based on place of origin and color).

When defined subjectively, marijuana has a formal name being Cannabis Sativa; a
plant containing delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, more commonly known as THC. The active
ingredients which provide an existential like state of cosmic interaction known as being
high.

The physical quantities include tiny red/ brown hair and white crystalline powder coating.
Marijuana is usually grown, dried and then rolled and smoked or used in pipe or bong.

Known in India, Central Asia, and China, marijuana has long been used as both a
medicine and in toxicant. It gained widespread use in the United States in the 1960’s and
1970’s, becoming the second most popular drug after alcohol, and its popularity continued
through the end of the 20th century, particularly among American teens.

Most countries consider marijuana an illegal substance, but individual countries

vary on how the prosecute the use and possession of marijuana. Some countries only
impose small fines, whiles others impose harsher punishment, including imprisonment.

Marijuana is illegal in western countries, but has currently been discriminated in

Britain. Amsterdam is one country in which the controlled and moderate use of marijuana
is of illegal.

The main active chemical in marijuana is THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol). The

membranes of certain nerve cells in the brain contain protein receptors that bind to the
THC. Once securely in place, THC kicks off a series of cellular reactions that ultimately lead
to the high that users experience when they smoke marijuana.

Tetrahydrocannabinol is the chemical most active in producing in psychological

effects if marijuana. The amount of tetrahydrocannabinol in particular plants varies, widely,
depending in the climate, soil, and other factors. On the basis of it’s clinical effects,
tetrahydrocannabinol a classified as a psychotomimetic or hallucinogenic drug. However,
its effects on the brain appear to differ from those produced by other hallucinogens, such as
LSD-25 or mescaline.

The use of marijuana started long before any research was ever done, people used it
all over the world for variety of reasons. The oldest record of medicinal use of marijuana
comes from Chinese texts, around 5000 years ago.

The exact origins are still unknown but most experts hypothesize that it originated
from somewhere in Central Asia, north of the Himalayan Mountains. The Latin term
cannabis had a Greek origin (Kannabis) whereas the English word hemp is derived from
Middle English hempe and the earlier Old English from henep to haenep.

According to, Raphael Mechoulam and co-workers at the Hebrew University in

Jerusalem, the origin of the term cannabis can be traced as such: Greel cannabis < Arabic
kunnab< Syriac qunnappa< Hebrew Pannag (bhanga in Sanscrit and bang in Persian).” The
authors think that it is probable that poannag, mentioned in the Bible by the prophet
Ezekiel (5-22), is in fact cannabis or marijuana. The term marijuana may have arisen from
the Portuguese marihuango or the Mexican-Spanish mariguana, both of which mean
‘intoxicant’. Marijuana is a term that indicates a preparation made from the flowering or
fruiting tops of the cannabis plant from which the resin has not been extracted. The use of
the term cannabis is international, yet its products and the plant itself can be called many
different names. The synonyms, excluding the street names, are almost legion and vary
from one country to another. For example, Central Africans refer to cannabis as mata,
kwane, M bhanze, or dagga while Indians commonly refer to it as charas, bhang, ganja,
hashish.

Central Asiatic nomads may have been the agents for cultural dispersion of the hemp
plant throughout Asia. Warlike equestrian pastoralists inhabiting Scythia, a large ancient
region in southeastern Europe and Asia used the hemp plant for textiles and intoxications.
Herodotus, a famous Greek Historian, stated that the “Scythian passion was inhaling the
smoke of burning hemp plants.” This was done by burning portions of the plant in metal
censers beneath small tent structures and enclosed the vapors, which were then inhaled for
ritualistic and euphoric purposes.

Later it was discovered by Russian archeologists that hemp fibers were used by the
Scythians for certain types of clothing’s. After 1700 B.C., nomads possessing use and
knowledge of hemp migrated out of Central Asia. Ancient Iranian literature implies that the
hemp plant was used as an oil source. However, hemp’s most significant use in southwest
Asia, Egypt, the Mediterranean region, and Africa was for intoxicating purposes.

The Assyrians I ancient Mesopotamia used hemp for fibers, incense, cultivation of
sesame and flex for essential fats, and most notably, for drug sources.

In the Mediterranean region, there is strong evidence that hemp intoxication was a
popular social practice. In the first century of the Christian era, Dioscordes, a physician,
wrote a book on medicinal herbs. He was unaware of the “dioecious nature of the hemp
plant and therefore listed a separate species for both female (Kannabis Emeros) and the
male (Kannabis Agria). He indicated that for females, cannabis could be used for strong
rope, relieving earaches, and including menstrual flow. For the male, on the other hand,
cannabis could be used for muscular ailments.

Claudios Galen (130-193 A.D.), a renowned scholar and author, reported that hemp
was a commonly consumed substance on the Italian Peninsula. It was noted that it caused
dry mouth but if taken in hilarity. Marijuana was used to some extent for ecstatic purposes
and limited drug use in northerly regions of Central and Western Europe.

In the Chinese culture, one of the early medicinal uses of hemp was for “absent-
mindedness.” Shen Nung, the “Father of Husbandry,” who probably lived sometime between
3494 and 2657 B.C. experimental cannabis for its drug potential. In his pharmacological
boo, he wrote that hemp should be prescribed from “female weakness, gout, rheumatism,
malaria, beriberi, constipation, and absent-mindedness.”

In India, there is an evidence of migrating tribes being the first to introduce hemp
into the region. The earliest synonym for hemp in India was Bhanga. In old folk songs,
“ganga or bhanga was the invariable drink of heroes before performing great feats of
heroism.”

The traditional hemp intoxication was a means of stimulating confidence, bravery

and success. In the XV Fargard of the Vendidad, a compilation of religious laws and myths,
hemp is referred to as a substance that stimulates abortion. In the Din Yast, a devotional
treatise dedicated to the Goddess Kista, hemp is referred to as being used for inducing
euphoric feelings and righteous actions.

Marijuana is in the United States was first widely noticed in the 1920’s in the wake
Mexican migration taking place around that time. By 1930’s all large cities in the country
had marijuana “dealers” and buyers. Concerned that the drug might incite the violence and
sexual deviance, Congress passed the marijuana tax act 1937, making marijuana possession
a felony offense. In the 1960 marijuana use become popular across American college
campuses, and by the 1970’s laws against marijuana begun to more lenient.

Although the hemp plant is probably indigenous to central Asia, it grows wild
throughout most of the world and can be cultivated in any area that has hot season. Only
the female plant synthesizes the chemicals responsible for the pharmacological effects of
marijuana. The chemicals are legend primarily in the flowering tops of but they may also be
found to a lesser extent in the leaves, stem, and seeds.

Cannabis has an ancient history of ritual use and is found in pharmacological cults
around the world. Hemp seeds discovered by archaeologists at Pazyryk suggest early
ceremonial practices like eating by the Scythians occurred during the 5 th and 2nd century
B.C.E., confirming previous historical reports by Herodotus. Some historians and
etymologists have claimed that cannabis was used as a religious sacrament Jews and early
Christians.

It was also used by Muslims in various Sufi orders as early as the Mamluk period, for
example by the Qaladars. In India and Nepal, it has been used by some of the wandering
spiritual sadhus for centuries, and in modern times the Rastafari movement has embraced
it as a sacrament. Elders of the modern religious movement known as the Ethiopian Zion
Coptic Church consider cannabis to be the Eucharist, claiming it as an oral tradition from
Ethiopia dating back to the time of Christ, even though the movement was founded in the
United States in 1975 and has no ties t either Ethiopia or the Coptic Church like the
Rastafari, some modern Gnostic Christian sects have asserted that cannabis is the Tree of
Life.

Other organized religions founded in the past century that treat cannabis as a
sacrament are the THC Ministry, the Way of Harmony, Cantheism the Cannabis and the
Church of Cognizance.

Cannabis was introduced to the Americas in the mid-19 th century by Indian laborers
under the Indian indenture system implemented by the British Empire after the end of the
African slavery in the British West Indies. In the Caribbean, cannabis is still known as ganja
(the Sanskrit word for marijuana), Indian or Coolie weed. The plant eventually spread into
Mexico, U.S., Canada and the rest f the Americas.

The production of the cannabis for drug use remains illegal throughout most of the
world. International Opium Convention of 1925, the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, the 1961
Single Convention n Narcotic Drugs the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and
the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances, while simple possession of small quantities is either legal, or
treated as an addiction rather than a criminal offense in a few countries.

Solitary use or regular heavy use is much less common. Regular heavy use of
marijuana or hashish leads to someone tolerance. However, unlike narcotics, (morphine like
drugs), and alcohol, the repeated use of marijuana does not cause physical dependence, and
there are no withdrawal symptoms when chronic use is interrupted.

Marijuana acts mainly on the central nervous system. The effects it produces depend
on the personality of the use, the dose, the method of administration, and the
circumstances surrounding its use.

The most consistent effect of marijuana is a change of mood. Marijuana usually

produces a sense if well-being (euphoria), enhanced self-esteem and relaxation. These
mood changes are frequently accompanied by changes in sensory perceptions. Distances
may appear greater, and time intervals may seem longer than they really are. Sensory
stimuli may also take on a more pleasant or novel quality s that the ordinary sounds or
object may seem aesthetically more pleasing or interesting.

In some cases, marijuana cases a decrease an emotional control that gives rise to
impulsive behavior. It is more common, however, for users to withdraw into introspective
reveries. In the United States, marijuana users refers t his level of intoxication as a “high.”
Marijuana generally tries to avoid taking ore of the drug than in necessary to reach this
level.

Some users of marijuana or hashish, experience illusions or visual and auditory

hallucinations that are sometimes accompanied by feelings of panic, and other psychotic
symptoms. It is now known that such as acute intoxications are not necessarily caused by
individual idiosyncrasies, as a previously thought, but that in high enough doses,
tetrahydrocannabinol, the active principle in marijuana, can produce such effects in most
people.

Marijuana is almost smoked. Since tetrahydrocannabinol is more potent when

smoked than when taken orally, and since the onset of drug effects is rapid when the drug is
smoked, it is usually possible for marijuana users to avoid over dosage by taking only as
pleasant “high.” However, marijuana, especially in high doses, has induced psychotic
episodes in occasional users who had no previous histories of psychotic behavior.

Although the effects of marijuana vary somewhat from person to person and depend
on partly on the setting in which the drug is taken, regular users agree about marijuana’s
effects on consciousness (Tart, 1970). Researchers have studies effects of marijuana on
memory as well.

Like alcohol, marijuana impairs the transfer of new information from short-term
memory to long-term storage (Darley et al., 1973; Miller et al., 1977; Wetzel, Janowsky, and
Clopton, 1982). Scientists have begun to piece together the psychological aspects of
memory impairment.

Marijuana seems t reduce the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (Ach) in

various pathways in the brain’s limbic system (Miller and Braconnier, 1983). Once
structures within the limbic system, the hippocampus seems particularly involved in
consolidating new information into long-term memory. Marijuana may affect memory by
temporarily impairing the same neural system but to a smaller degree.

Many users describe two phases of marijuana intoxication: initial stimulation, which
includes giddiness and euphoria, followed by sedation and pleasant tranquility. Mood
changes are often accompanied by altered perceptions of time and space.

Thinking processes become disrupted by fragmentary ideas and memories. Many

users report increased appetite, heightened sensory awareness, and general feelings of
pleasure.

Negative effects of marijuana use can include confusion, acute panic reactions,
anxiety attacks, fear, a sense of helplessness, and loss of self-control. Chronic marijuana
users may develop a motivational syndrome characterized by passivity, decreased
motivation, and preoccupation with taking drugs like alcohol intoxication, marijuana
intoxication impairs judgment, comprehension, memory, speech, problem-solving ability,
reaction time, and driving skills.

Marijuana has puzzling aspects. Scientists have not succeeded in establishing exactly
what substance n the cannabis plant produce drug effects, or how, THC, is, of course,
believed to be the most important active element, but chemists believe it’s not the only one.

It is classified as hallucinogens. It is not a narcotic as it resembles both stimulants

and depressants in some of its effects. Its use does not lead to physical dependence, nor do
the user and the abuser develop tolerance. Some users, in fact, find that with regular use
they need less marijuana to achieve the desired high.

Users do acquire a slight to moderate psychological dependence. Less, in some

experts’ opinions’ than do regular users of alcohol or tobacco.

Some of marijuana’s adverse health effects may occur because THC impairs the
immune systems’ ability to fight disease. In laboratory experiments that exposed animals
and human cells to the THC or other marijuana ingredients, the normal disease-preventing
reactions of many of the key types of immune cells were inhibited. In other studies, mice
exposed to THC or related substances were more likely than exposed mice to develop
bacterial infections and tumors.

Marijuana as one of the most popular drugs has various effects on human health,
learning and social behavior. Research clearly demonstrates that marijuana has the
potential to cause problems in daily life or make persons existing problems become worse.
Depression, anxiety, and personality disturbances have been associated with chronic
marijuana use.
 Because marijuana compromises the ability to learn and remember information, the
more a person uses marijuana the more he or she is likely to fall behind in accumulating
intellectual job, or social skills. Moreover, research has shown that marijuana’s adverse
impact on memory ad learning can last for days or weeks after the acute effects of the drug
wear off. Students who smoke marijuana get lower grades and less likely to graduate from
high school, compared with their non-smoking peers.

Chapter IV

Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation of Data

Presentation and Analysis

This chapter presents, analyze and interprets the information obtained by the
researchers after they have conducted various research and studies.

The researchers conducted a survey at Barangay Poblacion Tupi, South Cotabato

with 100 respondents, which were subdivided into two categories: female and male. The
two subcategories are then separated into different age bracket according to where a
certain respondent belongs.

This survey would enable the researchers to know if how many persons in the
community were exposed to using marijuana and any other related questions. This activity
will help in answering the questions posted on Chapter 1.
 The following data presented are the results the researchers acquired by doing the
activity.

Graph 1. Answers of the female respondents to question no. 1 – “For your opinion is
marijuana addictive?”

Legend:

• Bracket A

• Bracket B

• Bracket C

• Bracket D

Based on the first question that was given to female respondents these
interpreations were drawn:
 On bracjet A where age ranges from 15-20 years old, the survey was conducted to
three respondents who all agreed that marijuana was addictive. While on Bracket B, where
age ranges from 21-30 years old, 75% of the 12 respondents agreed. Whereas, on Bracket
C, where age ranges from 31-40 years old, 83.33% of the total six respondents disagreed
hthat marijuana is addictive sort similar to Bracket D whose ages are 41-65 years old, qho
has seven respondents, where 85.71% were not amiable that the herb was addictive.

In all, 64.2% of the total 28 female respondents answered that marijuana is addictive
almost twice the number of the respondents who answered that marijuana is not addictive.

Graph 2 Answers of the female respondents to question no. 2 – “Have you tried using
marijuana?”

Legend:

• Bracket A

• Bracket B

• Bracket C

• Bracket D

Based on the second question that was given to 28 female respondents these
interpreations were drawn:

The question was pertaining to marijuana whether they have atleast tried using it.
On Bracket A where age ranges from 15-20 years old, the question was given to three
respondents where 66.66% were amiable that they have tried using it.

On the other hand, 50% of the 12 female respondents on Bracket B answered that
they had tried to use marijuana.

In Bracket C% with six respondents where age ranges from 31-40 years old, only
16.66% tried using using it and in Bracket D with seven respondents age ranges from 60-70
years old have have 14.28%.

Based on the diagram only 36.9% of the 28 female respondents have been exposed
to marijuana and the remaining 63.09% were not able to try using it.

Graph 3 Answers of the female respondents to questions no. 3 – “If yes, who
influenced you?”

Legend:

• Bracket A

• Bracket B

• Bracket C

• Bracket D

Based on thrid question that was given to 10 female users these interpretations
were drawn:

The question asked the users if what or who influences them in using marijuana. In
Bracket A ages 15-20 years old with 2 users answered 100% of them were due to peer
pressure (friends) as well as in Bracket C ages 31-40 years old with 1 user and Bracket D
ages 60-70 years old with 1 user.

While on Bracket B with six users and age ranging from 21-30 years old, only
66.66% answered that their friends are the one who influenced them and 33.33%
answered curiously (others) as reason of using marijuana.

All in all 91.66% of the 10 users who are exposed to marijuana states that their
friends are the one whi influenced them in using marijuana and 8.33% is just beacuase of
curiousity.

Graph 4 Answers of the female respondents to question no. 4 – “Do you have plans to
stop from using it?”

Legend:

• Bracket A

• Bracket B

• Bracket C

• Bracket D