To Prevent or Reduce Marijuana Use,young People Should Be Educated

question 85

Multiple Choice

To prevent or reduce marijuana use,young people should be educated about

• A) the tendency for teens to underestimate marijuana usage among their peers.
• B) the increased self-consciousness caused by marijuana use.
• C) the need for increasingly larger doses of marijuana to produce the desired high.
• D) the long-term costs of regular marijuana use.

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Definitions:

Central Nervous System

The complex network of the brain and spinal cord that is responsible for processing and sending out all the signals that control the body.

Peripheral Nervous System

The part of the nervous system that consists of the nerves and ganglia outside of the brain and spinal cord, connecting the central nervous system to limbs and organs.

Spinal Cord

A long, thin, tubular structure made up of nervous tissue, which extends from the medulla oblongata in the brainstem to the lumbar region of the vertebral column; it transmits neural signals between the brain and the rest of the body.

Neural Networks

Computing systems vaguely inspired by the biological neural networks that constitute animal brains, used in machine learning and artificial intelligence.