Health & Addiction

• The number of emergency room visits have risen sharply across the United States and doubled in one year in Colorado among out-of-state tourists related to marijuana use. ¹
• Frequent use of marijuana is linked with other illicit drug use, suicide attempts and depression.²
• Your biology can account for almost half of your vulnerability to addiction.³
• There is no one determining factor that can predict drug abuse or addiction. ⁴
• Fatal car crashes that involved marijuana tripled in the last ten years. ⁵
• The psychoactive ingredient in the marijuana plant, THC, can alter the brain leading to short-term memory loss, decreased motivation, poor attention and judgment, loss of coordination, depression and psychotic episodes.⁶
• Youth marijuana use could lead to multiple addictive behaviors into adulthood. ⁷
• Regular marijuana use (50 times or more a year) is strongly related to the onset of other illicit drug use. ⁸
• 10% of people who try marijuana become addicted and that number increases up to 50% among daily users.⁹