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Contents

Introduction

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1. What is marijuana?

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2. What’s the downside of marijuana?

3. What are the legal consequences of using marijuana? 4. Where does marijuana come from? 5. How do people use marijuana? 6. How does marijuana make you feel? 8. How does marijuana change your brain? 9. How can marijuana make you sick? 10. What does marijuana do to your lungs? 11. What does marijuana do to your heart? 12. Can marijuana cause mental illness? 7. What does marijuana do once it’s inside your body? 13. What does marijuana do to the reproductive system? 14. How does marijuana change how well you do in school?

15. What about marijuana and driving?

16. More questions?

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Glossary

Index

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