Addiction Recovery Basics

The active ingredient in marijuana that impacts the brain is THC (tetrahydocannibinol). It is now known that different areas of the brain have varying amounts of THC receptors, some more some less, some have not all. THC affects the parts of the brain with the greatest number of THC preceptors. Areas of the brain that have a great number of receptors are those affecting your emotions, judgment, memory, and balance.

An area of the brain that a great deal of THC receptors this is the hippocampus. This is the area of the brain function that regulates and processes memory. One reason people get ‘spaced out’ from smoking marijuana is that their memory is being affected information may not even register on the brain, and therefore never be recalled.

THC is also believed to affect the area of the brain called the limbic system. The limbic system is thought to regulate emotions. That may explain why people have fits of the giggles and laughter one minute and then are freaking out paranoid the next.

And I thought we just used to get high because the weed was good…unfortunatley it is getting more powerful and dangerous. Please don't enem mess with the "marijuana maintainance recovery plan".

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