First of it's ILLEGAL. There's probably a good reason why the government has made marijuana illegal. Probably because billion of people abuse this worldwide. Once your addicted to marijuana, it's hard to stop. You would do anything to get it, even steal from your own family members, rob stores, and do other illegal things. Just like alcohol, if you get addicted to this, you're probably going to be in some serious financial problems and have no money for food, shelter, cloths, etc. It has many street names, so people could be talking about it and you wouldn't know. It's abused in many different ways, so don't thing that if you see some one smoking, it's marijuana. For all you know people could have disguised it has a brownie. Another main factor is that you don't what chemicals are used to make street marijuana. Unlike medical marijuana, street marijuana doesn't come with a list of ingredients used to make the drug. For all you know, they could have your mom's hair spray mixed into the drug. Just remember, marijuana is one of the top three most dangerous drugs in the world and also one of the most abused.