Marijuana puts kids at risk. It is the most widely used illicit drug among youth today and is more potent than ever. Marijuana use can lead to a host of significant health, social, learning and behavioral problems at a crucial time in a young person's development. Getting high also impairs judgment, which can wreak havoc on teens in high-pressure social situations, leading to risky decision making on issues like sex, criminal activity or riding with …showed first 75 words of 330 total…

…showed last 75 words of 330 total…name of the sect leader - one Hasan Ibn al-Sabbah. In 1839 after much success in Bengal with using cannabis to treat pains, convulsions and the spasms of rabies, a Doctor O'Shaughnessey published a 40 page treatise describing its value as a sedative. This led to western medicine adopting cannabis to treat everything from abdominal pains to gonorrhoea, migraines to epilepsy, asthma to gout. Later Queen Victoria was to take a draw to ease her period pains.