Both the dangers of smoking cannabis and its potential health benefits have been a source of controversy for many years. The latest study on the drug suggested that heavy and prolonged cannabis smoking as a young person can result in a permanently lower IQ, reports Sade Oguntola. Persistent use of marijuana when the brain is undergoing critical development may have toxic effects on brain cells. Of particular worry is the permanence of these effects among people who began smoking marijuana in adolescence. Even after these subjects stopped using marijuana for a year, its adverse effects persisted. [continues 1074 words]
TUNDE walked up to his mother's shop, looking rough and having the collar of his shirt flying. He had a look of someone already in the clouds - that look of someone intoxicated with alcohol. For him at 15 years and in Senior Secondary School I, you can't but notice his gait, his unkept clothes and the redden eyes. Speaking with his mother who sells palm oil, his blood short eyes and bad breath were so glaring that one tends to wonder what may be responsible for all of these. [continues 1564 words]
