Marijuana Side Effects – (Many Good Reasons for Quitting Weed).

If you are thinking it’ might be time to stop smoking marijuana her are a few

facts that might just make you want to quit weed right now.

No one can deny that smoking pot gives you a great feeling of relaxation, euphoria, and many other pleasant side effects but the less pleasant ones that we often ignore or even find funny are the ones that do the most harm.

I used to laugh and joke about the fact that I would forget what I was talking about mid sentence. My memory still has not fully recovered and I’m no longer laughing because I’m not sure that it ever will.

The fact is that with every passing year, more and more serious health problems are being associated with marijuana addiction.

Here are just some of the side effects of smoking weed.

The Lungs.

Obviously smoking a joint carries all of the same health risks of smoking tobacco. What most pot smokers do not realise is that there is a chemical in the cannabis that amplifies this. When you smoke a joint it is in fact around 4 times more harmful. The tobacco is effectively 4 times more dangerous.

As well as the many thousands of chemicals that are inhaled in cigarette smoke there are over 400 additional chemicals including a known carcinogenic in marijuana smoke.

In recent years lung cancer, emphysema, asthma and a number of other lung conditions and diseases have been confirmed to be linked with smoking pot.

Side Note. When I stopped smoking weed my lungs felt ten times better within a month.

The Brain.

The active chemical in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol often referred to as THC. THC makes you feel care free, giggly, relaxed and often hungry. Other common symptom are short term memory loss, lack of motivation, low self esteem, low confidence and paranoia. Again most of these symptoms  disapear quickly when you quit weed. (find out more).

Other less Known symptoms.

Did you know that smoking marijuana can affect your performance in the bedroom too. Men can become prone to low sperm count and erectile dis-function. For the ladies we have irregular periods and decreased ability to conceive. It is a well known fact that smoking during pregnancy can harm the unborn child. There is also  evidence that smaking weed during pregnancy can lead to your child having learning difficulties.

What About your loved ones.

Often overlooked but well worth a mention is the people around you and the people that rely on you.

I think that most heavy weed smokers would hold their hands up and admit that they would be a better parent, son, daughter, employee or just a better person if they did not smoke.

Well my biggest driving force was my children and my biggest regret is that i did not quit weed until they were grown up.

I look around now at today’s culture where weed is everywhere and it makes me sad to think how many of these perfectly normal and often wonderful human beings will spend their whole lives held back like I did.

I’m well into my forties now and if you are young and have your whole life ahead of you I would like to finish this post by telling you straight to give up weed now.

I promise you that you will be glad you did when you watch helplessly as people that you know waste there lives in a cloud of smokey denial.

If you feel that you can’t do this on your own,  try checking out the program that I used to quit marijuana.