Teens and drug abuse

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You may hear marijuana called by street names such as pot, herb, weed, boom, Mary Jane, gangster, or chronicThere are more than 200 slang terms for marijuana. Sinsemilla (sin-seh-me-yah; it's a Spanish word), hashish ("hash" for short), and hash oil are stronger forms of marijuana. All forms of marijuana are mind-alteringThis means they change how the brain worksThey all contain THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the main active chemical in marijuanaBut there are also 400 other chemicals in the marijuana plant. LSD LSD is very potent: the effective dose is measured in micrograms (ug) -- however, the lethal dose is literally thousands of times that, making the drug essentially non-toxic LSD can be administered a number of ways, the most common: orally through paper, sugar cubes, on a piece of gelatin, or by pill; intravenously; or intramuscularly