How to Recognise Cannabis?

Cannabis is a plant and it’s sold as light green or brown dried leaves or buds. The plant is often processed and pressed to plates which is known as hash. The color of hash can vary from light brown to black and it can be soft and smooth or hard and gnarly. The oil in cannabis plant can be extracted to produce dark and sticky oil.

The Effects of Cannabis

The type of effects are depending from the user’s expectations and state of mind, as well as from the setting around user. Individuals who are beginning to use cannabis don’t often feel much effects. To feel the effects it is often needed to know what kind of effects to expect. Usually the effects are confortable feeling of relaxation, talkativeness, happiness, and enhanced sounds, colors, and taste. Feeling of hunger is also common and inexperiences users may feel anxiety. With larger doses the user may feel distortions in time, forget things, and have unclear thinking.

The user starts to experience the effects gradually in couple of minutes after smoking, and may last from sixty minutes to several hours. When cannabis is eaten or drunk the effects start later and last longer. When using cannabis by eating or drinking it is more difficult to control the dose when compared to smoking.

The Risks of Cannabis

Sometimes after ingesting cannabis the user may feel temporarily hard psychical anxiety and dizziness. In these cases the user is often inexperienced, anxious or depressed and dose has been extraordinarily high. Exaggerated use of cannabis may aggravate the symptoms of mental disorders. However, there is no danger of lethal overdose with cannabis.

Excessive use of cannabis. Some health risk related with excessive use of cannabis are connected with smoking tobacco which is often mixed with cannabis. However smoking pure cannabis damages lungs as well and may lead to bronchitis or increase to potentiality of lung cancer. It is common for long term users to have cannabis dependency in social settings.