This full-color illustrated booklet warns readers that marijuana is an illegal and harmful drug that sends nearly a quarter million people a year in this country to drug treatment clinics for help; that its short-term effects on perception and motor skills are similar to those of alcohol, and that long-term users often suffer "amotivational syndrome" -- a generalized disinterest in work, studies and activities.

It lists the street names for marijuana, warns that 700,000 people a year are arrested for possessing and selling the drug and descrtibes the short- and long-term health effects of smoking "pot."

The signs that someone is using marijuana are described and the booklet ends with a list of sources for help in breaking the dependence the drug creates.