Negative Effects of Marijuana on Teenage Girls
Annotated Bibliography Marijuana has many negative effects on teenage girls. ... I feel that I have tried to warn them against the harmful effects but have never had enough evidence of them. Marijuana has been illegal in New York since 1927 and the United States shortly after passed laws making recreational use of the drug illegal. Many people continue to abuse the drug ignoring the laws and effects. There are many negative effects of smoking marijuana. These effects are especially prevalent during the teenage years, and have a more severe effect on females. Among the more severe short term side effects are depression and eating disorders. While under the influence of marijuana teenage girls are more likely to engage in sexual acts they wouldn’t in a normal state of mind. There are also many long term effects including lower IQ and lung, mouth and throat cancer. Smoking marijuana is not only damaging to your physical health but it also affects users psychologically. This annotated bibliography is intended to evaluate the following sources and their usefulness in researching the negative effects of marijuana on teenage girls. ... Some negative effects were mentioned that I hadn’t read about else where such as fall in body temperature after consuming THC, and a rise in blood sugar, although these conclusions came from studying monkeys not humans. ... Brass; no background information is included on the author because he only wrote the small paragraph entry on marijuana. ... Although it only contained a paragraph on marijuana useful information including negative effects, reasons for use, symptoms of withdrawals and treatments used for addicts. ... It is a reference source so there are no illustrations or pictures but many charts and graphs depicting drug use and effects. This source is useful for what it is meant to be, but is not a great source when researching just marijuana. ... Those who were found to have an eating disorder showed high use of marijuana. ... Links were made from eating disorders to marijuana use as well as alcohol and tobacco use.