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Billion Per Year War On Drugs
1,231 words
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
more of its citizens ...
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Paul Said He Wasnt Warwick He Bumps Joe
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This 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 words
The 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
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Often 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
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On 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 words
Marijuana 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 words
Some 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
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Facing 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 words
Entertainment 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
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Billie 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
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Every 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
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It 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 words
Drug 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 words
Drug 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 words
Drug 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
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Review 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 words
Some 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 words
Losing 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 words
Over 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 words
Marijuana 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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