People smoke marijuana to get a psychological reaction known as a high. This consists of changes in the user's feelings and thoughts. When you are high off marijuana everything seems to be funny. They tend to laugh at everything. They tend to hear things that they do not ordinarily hear, like your heart beating. They know it is beating, but it sound like a loud drum beating. Some people experience high blood pressure. While users are high they imagine things that are not there. If they are driving down the highway high they think and feel like they are doing the speed limit but they are actually going slow. Users could also think that they are seeing five lines when they know that there is really only one. Their speech becomes slurred and their eyes are blood shot red and tight as can be. When users are high they have a lot of energy, but when they come down they have no energy at all. When they come down they tend to get very hungry. It is a hunger that you do not ordinarily feel and is commonly called the munchies. They just want to eat anything and everything that they can possibly get their hands on. After they come down off their high it makes them sleepy. Marijuana should stay illegal because of the irresponsibility of people, risk factors, and the inability as a medicine.
             People try the drug because of curiosity. Some of them believe marijuana improves their talents and capabilities. But scientists have found that marijuana impairs all abilities (World Book). Marijuana may increase a person's willingness to accept new ideas without determining whether they are true or false. If students start using marijuana their grades are usually going to fall. They will not be able to remember what is going on in class because they cannot concentrate, and they will not do well on tests. I heard that there was once a study that said that students that studied for a test and were under the influence of marijuana also had to be unde...