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Billion Per Year War On Drugs
1,231 wordsAmerica is spending millions of dollars to run ad campaigns with teenage waifs smashing up the kitchen with frying pans, brain fried egg commercials, and other inaccurate and misleading ads put fear into our nations youth and adults alike. One such ad showed a flat line brain scan purportedly hooked up to a drug user. It was later proven that it was hooked up to nothing and most of our nations kids now know it. Seeing the "Land of the Free" turn into a nation that imprisons more of its citizens ...
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Paul Said He Wasnt Warwick He Bumps Joe
1,607 wordsThis is the second book that I have chosen to read over the summer and its called Teacup Full Of Roses. The major character in this book is named Joe. Joe is the middle son of the family. He has a younger brother named David and an older brother named Paul. Joe is a really good person to David and always helps him out when his parents dont listen to him. He is also really supportive of Paul. Now Paul is the major minor character. Hes the oldest son in the family and is the favorite of his mother...
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High School Seniors War On Drugs
1,766 wordsThe year is 2000. The War on Drugs is a lost cause. The United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars and lost thousands of lives. The result is any adult or child with a couple measly dollars can purchase any existing illegal drug almost anywhere in the country (Greer 6 / 24 / 98). The emergence of a new designer drug (a combination of two existing drugs) ecstasy, which is the most common street term for the illicit drug MDMA (+/- 3, 4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine), has brought a fat...
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One Of The Most Powerful Kurt Cobain
1,161 wordsOften the truth forces us to confront what we would rather not know. It is especially difficult when it regards those we admire. Kurt Cobain was one of the most powerful voices of a generation and many questions surround his tragic death. I, too, believed the suicide theory for the last five years, until I watched the movie Kurt and Courtney, a documentary by Nick Broomfield, and did some investigating on the web. This brought to light of several facts that turned my thoughts around one hundred ...
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Kurt Cobain Courtney Love
1,237 wordsOn April 5, 1994, the lead singer and songwriter of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, silently placed the end barrell of a shotgun into his mouth and pulled the trigger. And so ended the life of so much promise. But why did it have to come to this? Perhaps the reasons will never be known, but there were a few things that haunted Cobain throughout his life that he just couldn't seem to get away from. Cobain's parents were seperated when he was nine years old, and according to friends and family, the divorce ...
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Illegal Drug Blood Pressure
585 wordsMarijuana is a popular, and illegal, drug. Its largest consumers are young adults. Marijuana is smoked in a pipe, bong, or rolled in a joint. Thirty-seven percent of people between ages 12 - 17 have tried marijuana. Marijuana gives a slight buzzing feeling of light-headedness. Experimentation with marijuana is dangerous because studies show that 60 % of people who smoke marijuana on a regular basis move on to try harder drugs soon after. Marijuana tends to diminish the ambition and motivation in...
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Live A Normal Fathers Death
760 wordsSome people only get to dream about what life might be like if they had accomplished their life goals. Some people dream about what it might not be like. Steven was one of these more fortunate people until... Steven had to overcome more pain during his lifetime then some could imagine. He dreamed of becoming a wealthy, well known business man, with a loving family. He had no clue that it would be so hard to accomplish the few things that mattered the most to him, his dreams. Steven grew up in a ...
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Increase In Drug Body And Mind
1,805 wordsFacing everyday problems in these recent years many people turn to drugs as an escape from the existance they hold. Drug use has rapidly increased in the last twenty years and has become a national crises. More people are experimenting with different drugs at a younger age. Due to the rapid increase in drug abuse our government has looked to rehab as an alternative to jail. When a person thinks of a drug abuser one usually pictures a person that looks like thay had just jumped out of a garbage b...
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Computer Games Addictive And Time Consuming
1,876 wordsEntertainment plays a big role in everyday life. Games, video, computer, online games, Playstation's, etc can be used as entertainment and stress relief by many. (Woolley). Games are created to give people some time of pleasure and fun, time to get away from the world and dont think about the problems they face. But entertainment has become a business. Companies dealing with entertainment business make millions of dollars by (for example) putting a single computer game on sale. Their success dep...
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20 Th Century Carnegie Hall
1,701 wordsBillie Holiday was one of the most famous jazz singers of the 20 th century. Billie Holidays innovative phrasing about her life experiences in her music makes her one of the most influential jazz lyricists of the 20 th century. The emotional intensity that she brought into the words she sang was always very memorable and sometimes almost scary; she often lived the words she sang. Billie Holiday was born Eleanor Harris in Baltimore, Maryland on April 7, 1915. She did not have a stable life. Her f...
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Billions Of Dollars Marijuana Laws
1,083 wordsEvery year without fail, millions of people in North America light up and smoke marijuana. Correspondingly, every year, billions of tax dollars are wasted on fighting a futile war against an inevitable activity that is much less detrimental to our society than the war itself. The legalization and careful government regulation of marijuana would be beneficial to our society, saving taxpayers money and eliminating the few risks that accompany marijuana use. This is because the health and social da...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Influence Of Marijuana
1,044 wordsIt is safe to say that at some point in the not- too- distant future, United States will confront the question of whether or not to legalize the use and cultivation of marijuana, also well know as: pot, weed, grass, hashish etc. This topic has baffled the United States lawmakers reformist and citizens for so long that many people probably consider it rhetorical question. We could categorize marijuana somewhere between alcohol and tobacco on the one hand and caffeine on other, but no doubt it is ...
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Central Nervous System Psychological Dependence
1,765 wordsDrug dependence is psychological and sometimes physical need to use a drug in order to experience psychological or physical effects. Psychological addiction is more difficult to treat than the physical one and often continues after the physical addiction has been dealt with. Each day there are a lot of new drug addicts, but also there are a lot of those who die because of using this evil, white pleasure. Drug addiction has several forms in expressing the dependency. Also there are a lot of diffe...
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Illegal Drugs Illegal Substance
1,170 wordsDrug smuggling is on a current up raise and there seems to be no way of stunting it growth. But here a some ways some states are trying to slow the rate of drug smuggling. In Illinois there is a program called "Operation Cash Crop" or the OCC. This is a combine of the ISP and the DEA. It's goal is to locate places where marijuana is grown then destroy all of it's gardens. During the span of 1983 - 88 these "OCC" led to 442 arrest and destroyed over 2 million marijuana plants. And in 1984 there w...
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Psychoactive Drugs Peer Pressure
625 wordsDrug use is part of life in the United States. Some people use drugs for medical purposes and some use them to escape from reality or as a way to cope with problems. There are two main types of drugs, medicines and psychoactive drugs. Medicines are used to help the body fight injury and psychoactive drugs are used to cause a change in the users brain activity. Psychoactive drugs are very dangerous. They produce very powerful changes in the body. What a drug does is called its action and unwanted...
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Jurassic Park Special Effects
916 wordsReview Of Three Movies: Trainspotting, Ferris Buellers Review Of Three Movies: Trainspotting, Ferris Buellers Day Off And Jurassic Park Review Of Three Movies: Trainspotting, Ferris Buellers Day Off and Jurassic Park English 11 5 December 1996 Trainspotting Trainspotting is a drop-dead look at a dead-end lifestyle. Set among the junkies and thugs of Edinburgh's slums and made by (director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge, producer Andrew Macdonald) that created Shallow Grave, Trainspotting caused ...
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Father Death Live A Normal
773 wordsSome people only get to dream about what life might be like if they had accomplished their life goals. Some people dream about what it might not be like. Steven was one of these more fortunate people until Steven had to overcome more pain during his lifetime then some could imagine. He dreamed of becoming a wealthy, well known business man, with a loving family. He had no clue that it would be so hard to accomplish the few things that mattered the most to him, his dreams. Steven grew up in a fam...
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Billion Per Year War On Drugs
2,450 wordsLosing the War on Drugs America is spending millions of dollars to run ad campaigns with teenage waifs smashing up the kitchen with frying pans, brain fried egg commercials, and other inaccurate and misleading ads put fear into our nations youth and adults alike. One such ad showed a flat line brain scan purportedly hooked up to a drug user. It was later proven that it was hooked up to nothing and most of our nations kids now know it. Seeing the Land of the Free turn into a nation that imprisons...
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Smoke Marijuana Drunk Drivers
2,226 wordsOver 3000, 000 people a year are arrested because of it in our country. Its recreational usage boomed in the 1960 s and by the 1980 s one half of all college students had tried it. Once a simple plant, cannabis strip, or marijuana, has become one of the most controversial topics of the 20 th century. Although illegal for some time now in the United States, we know of its widespread availability and usage. Once a huge threat to society, it is now being overlooked as we turn to the seemingly more ...
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Marijuana Smoking Tobacco Smoke
906 wordsMarijuana Legal or Illegal Cannabis, sold as marijuana, hashish and hash oil, is the most frequently used illicit drug in Canada. Roughly one in four Canadian adults report having used cannabis at some time in their lives. Cannabis use has been on the rise among young people. ? For example, a 1997 Addiction Research Foundation survey found that 25 per cent of Ontario junior high school students used cannabis in the previous year, up from 13 per cent in 1993. ? (cannabis) Knowing this, should the...
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