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 Marijuana is a well-known drug, which is widely used by people recreationally, to get "high", experiencing different effects of drug consumption, like the sense of relaxation and pleasant euphoria. Marijuana is actually the name for the dried leaves and flowers of the Cannabis sativa or the Cannabis Indica plant, which contains more than 100 chemicals called cannabinoids. The main two of them:  Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol  (THC) and  cannabidiol (CBD)  affect our body the strongest, creating the effects called "high". But there are some other purposes for using these chemicals. Our body produces really similar chemicals that are involved in for example body movement, memory, and pain or appetite feeling. Cannabinoids contained in marijuana can be used to treat disorders related to these things. Due to it, the term "Medical marijuana" was born. Medical marijuana is actually the same thing as a recreational one, but it's used for medical purposes. Many...

 Due to the popularization of alcohol, I think that most people in the world at least once in a lifetime experience alcohol consumption effects. But not everyone knows how actually alcohol work and how it makes us drunk. "The main player" in this process is ethanol - the primary ingredient in alcoholic drinks. Ethanol starts to affect our body from the moment it gets into our mouth. Through small blood vessels in our mouth and on our tongue, some ethanol gets into our bloodstream in just a few seconds. The main role alcohol plays in our stomach, 20% of alcohol in our stomach goes into our bloodstream, the rest of it goes there when ethanol gets into our small intestine. If our stomach is full, alcohol will stay there longer, reaching out to our bloodstream longer. The effect of drunkness is dependent on the amount of alcohol in our bloodstream at one time, so when we have an empty stomach, alcohol goes directly into our blood, making us drunk faster and stronger.  Our bloodst...

 Krokodil is the street name for desomorphine, one of the opioid substances. It is a toxic homemade drug, which is produced by combining codeine tablets with various chemicals like gasoline or industrial cleaners. This drug is mostly used in poor rural areas in Russia as a cheaper alternative to heroin. Like all opioids, desomorphine is a highly addictive substance that completely ruins users' lives. Krokodil is injected by users into their veins, giving them 2 hours of euphoric effects, which are actually about 10 times stronger than typical morphine effects. Because of the short duration of effects, users start to repeat the doses to avoid really strong withdrawal symptoms. A lot of users doing this drug develop extreme skin ulcerations, infections, and even gangrene, their skin changes color to green, grey, and black which is similar the crocodile skin. Referring to this awful side effect, the drug is called Krokodil or even Zombie Drug. But the skin devastation is not the only ...