High School | Let's Be Clear, GA

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Here are some important topics to help you "stay clear" in life!

Grades and Marijuana

Studies show marijuana use can cause problems with attention, motivation, memory, and learning. Because of this, if somebody uses marijuana they could end up with lower grades and exam scores.

When somebody uses marijuana there is also a higher chance of dropping out of high school or not going on to technical school or college.

Since better paying jobs usually require a high school diploma dropping out of school could cause problems for the rest of somebody’s life.

Feelings and Marijuana

There are studies that have found marijuana can cause problems for young people with how they feel and think. At first, marijuana may seem to make someone chill or relax, but the more often they use it, the more stressed out, sad, or angry they can get.

Some people may even think about not wanting to be alive anymore.

What’s really important is for each of us to know we are enough – just like we are, without a drug.

Be good to yourself!

Love yourself.

When we have problems that we’re dealing with it’s better to talk about them with someone we trust instead of getting high.

How The Marijuana Industry Targets Youth

Big Tobacco and Big Marijuana want to program you to convert you to their way of thinking. Don't let them!

Marijuana can mess with your motivation (your desire to do what you want to do or need to do.) Things that somebody used to love doing, they may not want to do anymore.

Some of the chemicals in marijuana can lower the amount of dopamine in the brain. The less dopamine in the brain the less somebody feels like doing stuff they used to like to do, like playing sports or being with family members.

The marijuana industry targets young people in lots of ways to use their products, just like “Big Tobacco” and “Big Alcohol” do:

Getting Celebrities to Advertise Products

Making smoking and drinking look like fun by associating them with video games

Showing people smoking and drinking in TV shows, movies, or on the internet

Big Marijuana is already targeting young people in some of these same ways

A lot of their packages look like snacks you buy every day by giving marijuana products names like “KeefKat” and “Buddahfinger.”

They are trying to find any way they can to get your brand loyalty. To them you are just a dollar sign.

Here’s what the cigarette company Phillip Morris said about marketing to teens: “Today’s teenager is tomorrow’s potential regular customer, and the overwhelming majority of smokers first begin to smoke while in their teens...it is during the teenage years that the initial brand choice is made.”

Big Marijuana is working harder and in clever ways to advertise to teens.

There are now scholarships for high school students from marijuana companies.

Big Marijuana is trying to work even harder in clever way to advertise teens. There are now scholarships for high school students from marijuana companies. Since there are websites that promote these scholarships, this can be said to be advertising to young people. Big Marijuana is manipulating teens just like Big Alcohol and Big Tobacco.

Vaping

Dabbing

When you vape marijuana or nicotine while your brain is still growing, it’s easier to get addicted and the damage can last for life. Your brain keeps developing until around age 25–30, so using addictive substances before then is especially harmful.

Dabbing uses marijuana with way more THC, so it can hit your body and mind much harder. Higher THC can cause stronger side effects like anxiety, feeling on edge, paranoia, and, in extreme cases, a mental break called cannabis-induced psychosis.

Choose Not To Use

Dabbing and vaping can make you breathe in toxic stuff like benzene, rust, or fumes from solder, all of which can seriously harm your health over time. Studies show that more than 80% of cannabis concentrates tested had dangerous chemicals like pesticides or leftover solvents in them.