Marijuana affects teenagers in many ways. It can ruin any teenager’s valuable life. It has very bad effects on different performance skills of teenagers. Most teenagers have several multi- tasking skills through which they strive for significant value addition. But marijuana makes the teenagers to drop their skills in a destructive way.

Marijuana badly affects driving skills. Use of marijuana causes lack of concentration, hand eye coordination, alertness, movement-control which are critical for a driver. The risk associated with teenager’s driving three times an experienced driver.

Some quick reactions are needed for a person who drives, but use of marijuana makes the person slow down and dizzy which makes him to react slowly in critical situations and can cause severe damage to the person or vehicle.

Use of marijuana impairs psycho-motor skills and makes the driver drive slowly or in high gear depending on the dosage of the drug taken. It will not only harms the driver as well as others who are around and on the road. They will not be able to concentrate on the sounds and signals on the road which leads to accident. Even the effects are mild compared to alcohol, but severe when mixed with any other drugs.

From safety point of view, it is better not to drive after smoking marijuana. The risk of danger after smoking marijuana is more while compared to normal driving. The possibility of accidents is more with the use of marijuana compared to drug free drivers.

By MND A01