By MD Timmen L. Cermak
As a father or mother, in case you are uncertain what to think approximately marijuana, how can you deal with the topic along with your baby? might be you smoked pot as a young person, otherwise you use marijuana this present day. might be you by no means attempted pot, otherwise you do not even recognize what it appears like. perhaps you are easily stressed over conflicting claims in regards to the drug even if it really is addictive, how damaging it really is, why a few imagine it's going to be legalized. the way that you should aid your youngster make fit offerings is to be told. This much-needed booklet approximately America's most generally used unlawful drug is helping mom and dad kind in the course of the most recent proof, the identified dangers, and the divergent views on pot. the fundamental message? for youths, marijuana use equals hazard. Your uncomplicated message? that is as much as you.
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Individual molecules initially pass unheeded through the brain but then suddenly stick to the outer membrane of specific nerve cells. It was soon discovered that THC fits perfectly into receptor sites that had hitherto never been detected. In studying the way marijuana affects the brain, researchers were discovering a whole new neurotransmitter system. An Earlier Story: The Endorphin System At first, one might wonder why our brains would produce receptor Marijuana and the Brain / 29 sites for a chemical found in marijuana.
One long process (the axon) reaches out to contact the dendrites of other nerve cells. Communication between the two nerves happens when a small electrical impulse races along the axon away from the cell body. When the electrical impulse reaches the terminal synapse, it causes a neurotransmitter chemical to be released. (Adapted from an image from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health) Figure 3: The Synapse Nerve cells communicate by passing a neurotransmitter chemical from the end of one cell’s axon to receptor sites on the dendrite of the next nerve cell.
The second, more targeted way to affect neurons is to interact with their neurotransmitters and receptor sites. Some drugs imitate natural neurotransmitters; for example, heroin imitates endorphins, thereby stimulating neurons that contain endorphin receptor sites. Some drugs block neurotransmitters by occupying receptor sites without unlocking their activity. Some drugs cause more neurotransmitter molecules to be released each time a neuron fires. And some drugs interfere with the reuptake of neurotransmitters, thus prolonging their action; for example, Prozac slows down the recycling of serotonin.