Mushrooms

These little babies known as magic mushrooms, shrooms, boomers, booms, mushies, contain a natural "poison" that can most definitely harm your body and mind.
The active chemical that makes you hallucinate is called psilocybin which is actually found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms. Crazy, right?

So you've probably heard about what mushrooms do, you know they make you see cool things, but what is actually happening is the mushrooms disrupt how your nerve cells and the neurotransmitter serotonin interact throughout the brain and spinal cord. When the natural functioning of serotonin in the brain change, mushrooms alter the way you normally take in information and can make you hallucinate. I'm sorry if that was too technical for you to read...

When you take mushrooms, the difference between fantasy and reality is completely hard to tell. You visualize, sense, and hear things that might not really exist... Some may also experience a "bad trip" since the shift in perception can be kind of scary. It can cause panic attacks, intense emotional mood swings, and psychosis.

Now time for the long-term effects!
Randomly, a few days, even possibly to a year later, the brain somehow can produce flashbacks- feelings and thoughts that replay the effects of being on the drug. Psychiatric illness and impaired memory have been reported as the long term effects.

To nip this blog in the butt, I'm gonna end it by saying yeah, mushrooms are natural and what not, but nature produces a crap load of plants that are poisonous. By distorting the natural function of your brain, mushrooms can fall into a category of dangerousness!


Here's a little video of what one looks like when on mushrooms.

Alcohol

 I believe that alcohol is the strongest drug out there.
What is it exactly? It's a depressant that affects pretty much all of your body. It comes from the natural fermentation of vegetables, fruits and grains. Brew it up, and you got a wide range of beverages with alcohol contents.




 If you can control your limits with drinking, you'd know that it helps you relax and loosen up, but if you don't have any limits...it straight up makes you into a drunk dumbass. Alcohol can damage the part of your brain that controls coordination, judgment, decision-making, and memory...Oh and it makes you slur your words.

Another thing! Binge drinking (drinking a lot and drinking fast) really harms the shit out of your health because it overwhelms the body's defenses.Unable or able to move and think clearly, you can do stupid, risky, reckless things that are totally unsafe...
We've all heard this, but as a teenager your brain is still developing. The long term effects of alcohol are pretty damn scary. It travels through your bloodstream and damages your brain, stomach, liver, kidneys and your muscles! Even if you're just out for a night with your friends, drinking, just know that the damage done to it then will affect you in a way.

Statistics show that alcohol kills more teens than all of the other drugs combined.
I guess the bottom line is the reason that alcohol consumption is legal for ages 21 and up is because alcohol can have seriously dangerous, long-term impacts on the brain and the body.

Marijuana

Marijuana is a natural plant, and natural is okay, right? Not right! Marijuana can cause a long-lasting impact on your brain...

  Pot, bud, dope, weed, hash, chronic, whatever you wanna call it, is a green and brown, sometimes a purple mix of of dried leaves, stems, seeds and flowers from that one plant called Cannabis. The main chemical is THC, which stands for a really long word but it's extremely hard pronounce. THC moves fast like a cat through the bloodstream and straight to the dome when inhaled. 
We all understand that some have med cards, but that's only after you're an adult. When you're young and your body is still growing, pot CAN impact your brain negatively such as weaken your verbal and communication skills, lower learning capabilities, and hardcore memory loss.
Other than the possible effects on the brain, marijuana can be hard on your lungs.
 A fun fact? Marijuana smoke contains 50% to 70% more carcinogenics hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke....(http://www.drugabuse.gov/tib/marijuana.html )

We've all heard of people arguing that pot is the "gateway drug" to harder drugs. It's a myth, it's a fact, whatever... There is a truth! Research shows that the earlier you start smoking pot, then the more likely you are to depend on harder drugs later on in life or maybe just try it once?

There are movies and music that make the stoner culture look cool and like it's not a big deal, but the bottom line is that marijuana has the potential to become a big deal. It's limits the performance of your brain, makes you slow like a dang turtle, and impairs your coordination! And that's that.