WHAT IS DAGGA? SYMPTOMS  Depression  Talkativeness

Dagga comes from a plant, and is  Bloodshot red eyes  Feelings of detachment or unreality normally green in colour. The head  Increase in appetite Long-term effects include: (flower) of the plant is smoked. It contains  Sleepiness chemicals which affect the brain, lungs,  Persistent coughing heart and slows down the Central Nervous  Addiction System. Dagga comes in various forms  Danger to vital organs and can be dry, moist or compressed.  Negative social behaviour  Mental illness TRC – the main chemical in dagga – is the  Decrease in sexual health most potent chemical in dagga and can  Anxiety and panic attacks remain in the body for weeks – being  Loss of fertility stored in the fat.  Increased risk of lung cancer  Decreased resistance to infection HOW IS IT USED?  Foetal abnormality

 Decrease in motivation and immune

It is often smoked with or Mandrax system functioning as a “whitepipe” or “”. The most common method is selling it as a “stop” (1 gram rolled in newspaper).  Dry mouth

 Mood swings

It can be smoked, eaten or swallowed.  Paranoia

Some prefer smoking it in a pipe or mixed WHAT ARE THE with Mandrax, or smoked in a bottleneck (whitepipe). EFFECTS?

It can also be brewed in tea, or mixed in  False confidence food and eaten in a muffin/cake – called  Memory loss “space cakes” or “dagga cakes”.  Decrease in concentration

WARNING!

Nowadays the merchants are not getting THE BRUTAL you hooked only on the genuine product. FACTS ON

Dagga is artificially grown (under cover with strong lights in order to cultivate a quick crop), and the result is that the TRC* DAGGA level is SIX times more potent than normally-grown dagga; which makes it more potent, more of a danger!

Yet, there is a strong groundswell of opinion which wants dagga legalised, claiming it is less addictive than both nicotine and alcohol.

Read the effects and symptoms again, and

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