PUFF FOR PUFF

Smoking weed can be fatal, can lead to addiction and can cause health and psychological disorders as severe as schizophrenia.
Still, weed is the most commonly abused illegal drug all over the world. When smoked, weed affects the brain immediately, increases the rate of heart beat, relaxes the muscles, make the eyes look red. It affects the person psychologically by giving a feeling of high and hallucination. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50 to 70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than does tobacco smoke. It also induces high levels of an enzyme that converts certain hydrocarbons into their carcinogenic form—levels that may accelerate the changes that ultimately produce malignant cells. Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which increases the lungs' exposure to carcinogenic smoke (research report-National Institute on Drug Abuse). These facts suggest that, puff for puff, smoking marijuana may be more harmful to the lungs than smoking tobacco.Governments all over the world spend millions to stop weed trade and on numerous awareness programmes. Even though the sale, possession or consumption of weed is illegal in the UK, this trade seems to be flourishing right under the nose of the caretakers of law and order.