| Marijuana use has the potential to cause problems | | | | these children are more likely to exhibit deficits in |
| in daily life or make a persons existing problems | | | | problem-solving skills, memory, and the ability to |
| worse. Many think that marijuana is a harmless | | | | remain attentive. Students who smoke marijuana |
| drug that has little or no harmful results for the | | | | get lower grades and are less likely to graduate |
| average person. If this is what you think, you | | | | from high school compared with their nonsmoking |
| should think again! Marijuana compromises the | | | | peers. Workers who smoke marijuana are more |
| ability to learn and remember information, lasting | | | | likely than their coworkers to have problems on |
| for days or weeks after the acute effects of the | | | | the job. Several studies have associated workers |
| drug wear off. This can greatly affect your work | | | | who smoke marijuana with increased absences, |
| and social life. | | | | tardiness, accidents, workers compensation claims, |
| Every exposure is a risk. Babies born to women | | | | and job turnover. |
| who used marijuana during their pregnancies | | | | Marijuana users themselves report poor |
| display altered responses to visual stimuli, | | | | outcomes on a variety of life satisfaction and |
| increased tremulousness, and a high-pitched cry, | | | | achievement. When asked how marijuana |
| which may indicate problems with neurological | | | | affected their cognitive abilities, career |
| development. Marijuana-exposed preschool children | | | | achievements, social lives, and physical and mental |
| have been observed to perform tasks involving | | | | health, the overwhelming majority of heavy |
| sustained attention and memory more poorly | | | | cannabis users reported the drugs deleterious |
| than non-exposed children do. In the school years, | | | | effects on all areas of life. |