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/^t/One of the most important reasons why people use drugs (especially soft ones like marijuana and hashish) is that they want to react to the disappointment with their own lives. When people see no acceptable future for themselves or have to face a serious predicament, they tend to try to escape from the problems in some way. Some of them find an interesting hobby, some drink alcohol and some others start doing drugs to forget about the hardness of life at least for a moment. Hashish, marijuana and sometimes even hard drugs become their remedy for everything, a kind of panacea. Nevertheless, there is no remedy without side effects and the price they have to pay for using drugs may be enormous. As even soft drugs contain many toxic chemical substances, used frequently they cause great disorder in the human organism, especially in the brain.