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• Smoking 3 marijuana joints a day can cause the same lung damage as 20 cigarettes, according to a report entitled "A Smoking Gun" issued by the British Lung Foundation

• Smoking just one cannabis joint is like breathing in up to 5 cigarettes, according to Medical Research Institute of New Zealand doctors (specialist British journal, Thorax).

• About 3 million adults are dependent on marijuana in the US (possibly because the substance has become more potent), that's up nearly 20 percent in 10 years, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association

• Smoking marijuana can cause changes in lung tissue that may promote cancer growth, according to a review of decades of research on marijuana smoking and lung cancer published in Archives of Internal Medicine

• Smoking marijuana (cannabis) may be almost as harmful in the long term as using tobacco, a London toxicologist claims in a British Medical Journal editorial

• Marijuana use can cause memory and learning problems, loss of coordination, a distorted perception of reality, reasoning difficulties, an increased heart rate and an increased risk of cancer, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse

• Marijuana users have faster blood flow in their brains, even after a month of not smoking. This is not good and similar to people with high blood pressure and dementia, according to researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore

• Heavy cannabis use is linked to a 4-fold increased risk of developing schizophrenia, according to 2 recent studies reports the BBC News

• Long time marijuana smokers face many of the same kinds of respiratory problems, such as coughing, wheezing and phlegm, as long term tobacco smokers, say researchers at the Yale School of Medicine

• Kids who regularly smoke marijuana risk damaging a key brain pathway associated with language development and some predisposed to schizophrenia may contract the illness early, researchers said

• Heavy consumption of marijuana triggers psychosis and schizophrenia in a small number of people. It's even worse for modern super-strength marijuana (skunk) smokers, especially young people, Professor Philip McGuire and Zerrin Atakan of London's Institute of Psychiatry revealed

• Marijuana, use in many countries, is up to 20 percent of young people in places like Britain, according to English statistics.

• The risk developing a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia increases; many marijuana smokers underestimate that and other dangers of smoking "pot", Stanley Zammit, a psychiatrist at Cardiff University and the University of Bristol, and colleagues reported in the Lancet medical journal

• Patients given the active cannabis compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) had reduced function in the inferior frontal cortex brain region, according to work by Professor Philip McGuire and Zerrin Atakan of London's Institute of Psychiatry

• The average THC content of marijuana sold in Britain doubled to 12 percent from around 6 percent in recent years. In the Netherlands it rose to about 18 percent, International Cannabis and Mental Health Conference organizer Professor Robin Murray said

• Marijuana treatments almost tripled between 1992 and 2002 because of greater use and potency, according to a new government report

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