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Species Of Tree Rain Forests Plants
403 wordsFor many years now, scientist have been scouring tropical rain forests for botanical extracts that could cure some of the deadliest diseases. In 1967 Robin Foster discovered a tree that never flowered. After three years of studying this species of tree, it finally flowered. All at once the trees produced an array of light yellow and pink flowers. Unfortunately, these trees all died within a year of their flowering and fruiting. Robin also discovered that as soon as the tree flowered it was attac...
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Side Of The Road September 2000
765 wordsChicory, chi corium incubus, is a weed which produces blue flowers. It is also known as endive, succory, watcher of the road, and barbe de captain (beard of the monk). It commonly grows at the side of the road and paths blooming in June to October. It grows in North and South America, eastern Asia, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. It can be both domestic and wild, growing in gardens as well as the side of the road. Chicory has leafy stems. The leaves alternate from lance-shaped with tee...
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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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Animal Testing In The Cosmetic Industry
1,044 wordsDr. Frank Meehan picked up Charlie, the frail brown monkey and placed him into what would soon be his coffin. Charlie was screaming hysterically almost knowing that his time had come in the small research laboratory for a common cleaner product. Charlie had seen many of the other animals die the same agonizing death that he envisioned himself to be receiving soon. What would it be this time? Pumping the cleaner into his stomach or pouring it directly on his skin to study the burning of tissue? P...
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Food And Drug Medicinal Purposes
863 wordsDrugs are anything chemically based which alter your perceptions in life and give you a high that sometimes you would like to have forever. Sometimes people dont need this high in their life all the time but for others they always want that ultimate feeling. The feeling of no worries, pain, or sorrow. Some people take drugs for the fun of it, while others seriously have a problem and are addicted to the drugs. For some it is easy to just take drugs such as LSD, snort a line of coke, or smoke a j...
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Nausea And Vomiting Legalize Marijuana
890 wordsHe was my colleague and friend. He was also creative, sensitive, caring and an inspiring teacher of medicine. He was admired, respected and loved by his family, friends, students and patients. In addition to this, he was dying of a cancer which was slowly growing and expanding in his chest despite aggressive chemotherapy treatment. My colleague and friend knew he was dying and accepted his fate with his usual grace and dignity. What he was not accepting or tolerating well was the terrible side e...
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Is There Any Medical Potential For Marijuana
1,281 words... ea tivity and provides insight. 'It's a source of positive pleasure' (Abel 186). And if that is all the sick patients' experience in the last days of their lives, then so be it. Bibliography Abel, Ernest L. Ph. D. Scientific Study of Marijuana. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976, 177 - 196. Dickinson, Ben. 'What if weed is exactly what you need?' Esquire; Oct. 1997 HYPERLINK ' web ' web (Feb 12, 1999). Forbes, Steve. 'Deadly deceit. ' Forbes; Sep. 8, 1997 HYPERLINK ' web ' web (Feb 12, 1999). Johnso...
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Act Ii Scene Act Iii Scene
1,786 words... problem of the two lovers and hints that there may be some way to overcome it: 'But passion lends them power, time means, to meet, / Temp " ring extremities with extreme sweet. ' Mercutio lays on the sexual innuendos rather thickly in the first scene of the second act. He uses phrases that invoke sexual images such as 'raise up him, ' 'mistress' circle, ' and 'letting it there stand / Till she had laid it and colour'd it down, ' as well as metaphors of pears and medlars (a fruit somewhat lik...
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Doctors And Nurses Field Of Medicine
703 wordsConcept of Cultural Diversity and its Relevance in the Practice of Medicine The increasing cultural diversity of our society, requires the change of ethical code in healthcare. The interpersonal skills of healthcare workers are specially affected by it. It is crucial for treated people to feel that the hospital staff is genuinely concerned about patients well being. In order to gain patients confidence, doctors and nurses need to be a good listeners. Even though it sounds easy, sometimes hospita...
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Role Of Interpersonal Skills In Healthcare
1,074 wordsRole of interpersonal skills in healthcare The importance of interpersonal skills in healthcare can hardly be overestimated. In the field of nursing, healthcare workers ability to find a psychological contact with patients accounts like no other factor for their professional success. It has to be remembered at all times that the most of hospital patients are quite psychologically unstable and it takes an extra effort, on the part of doctors and nurses, to establish a bond of trust with them. The...
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Odor Of Garlic Garlic Garlic Things
222 wordsI am Garlic Garlic I am doing this project because I think it would be interesting to figure out different things about medicinal plants and, I decided to try to focus on garlic because, for reason it is a medicinal plant and there is a range of reasons why garlic is important to us but there are things we need to be aware of though. For about 5000 years garlic has been known to reduce blood cholestrol levels. Garlic tastes very hot, dry, and pungent. The cloves (a part of the garlic plant) are ...
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High School Seniors D A R E
800 wordsDrug Drug Abuse Drug Abuse Drug abuse affects many people all through the world. Drug use among Americans has risen to very high levels since the 1970 s. Drugs can be very dangerous if used in the wrong way. The purpose of this research report is to discuss the use and abuse of drugs. It also discuss the prevention programs against drugs. Many people think that drug abuse happens with illegal drugs only, that is not true. Drug abuse can happen with medicinal drugs or even non-prescription drugs ...
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Cannabis Sativa Biomass Fuels
1,171 wordsThe Forbidden Plant? With so many benefits, both industrial and medicinal, how could such a plant be illegal in the United States? Since 1937, the legalization of hemp has been the cause of much debate. However opponents of marijuana legalization have failed to acknowledge the benefits of hemp. These benefits consist of hemp being used to make cloth, fuel, and medicine. Hemp is commonly called cannabis sativa. There are other plants that are called hemp, but cannabis hemp is the most useful of t...
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Marijuana For Medical Medical Use Of Marijuana
1,122 wordsIn the late 1970 s, Susan Nelson watched her husband, Don, vomit constantly. Don was undergoing chemotherapy to treat his testicular cancer. The body rejects the drugs used in chemotherapy by means of vomiting. The constant vomiting caused Don further tissue damage than he already had. In 1989, Susan discovered she had lymphoma. Susan also went under chemotherapy, but during her whole treatment she only vomited once. Why do you think this is? She took matters into her own hands: she fired up a j...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Hundreds Of Thousands
997 wordsLegalization of Marijuana Most Americans don t realize how extreme the war on Marijuana actually is. Since 1965 there have been over 9 million arrests for Marijuana law violations. Over 7 million of these arrests were for possession of personal amounts (High times 1). The average time served in prison for selling Marijuana is four years, compared with just one year for rape or manslaughter (Drug sense 1). Our country treats drug crime as more important than our God-given, constitutionally protec...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Reform Of Marijuana Laws
1,396 wordsThe Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana is a drug that comes from a variety of common hemp known as cannabis indica. The much more potent hashish is also derived from the plant cannabis indica. What is sold on the street as marijuana, hemp, weed, pot, or bud are the dried leaves and the flowering tops of the plant. The primary psychoactive component in marijuana is the trans-delta-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. By 1937, marijuana had become illegal in 46 states. Penalties for its use were similar...
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National Drug Control Marijuana As Medicine
895 wordsLogical Reasoning For The Legalization Marijuana Essay, Logical Reasoning For The Legalization Marijuana 1 Last year there were more than 695, 201 marijuana arrests in the United States. Of those arrests 87. 2 % were for possession not for sale or manufacture of marijuana. There have been over 11 million marijuana arrests in the United States since 1965. 12. 7 % of today? s overcrowded federal prison population is made up of people incarcerated for marijuana offenses, with an average sentence of...
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Acute Target Audience
1,081 wordsLucozade, first established in 1927 is now a highly successful soft drinks product. As times change so do people, so in order to keep a wide customer base Lucozade has been constantly changing its image and broadening its appeal to the public. To investigate how Lucozade has changed its image between 1960 and 2000 we have examined three television advertisements that Lucozade used to promote its product. The first one was shown in 1960, the second in 1980 and the third in 1999. The narrative of ...
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Medicinal Marijuana Long Time
696 wordsI Marijuana For the Better I have often wondered why the War on Drugs has not been very effective, in fact, it really has done nothing. Take for example marijuana. It is banned in any form of growth and use everywhere in the United States. Yet, this drug gets just as much use as alcohol. I probably know just about as many potheads as I do alcoholics, yet the persistence of the government to waste countless billions of dollars to try and wipe out the use of this drug is pathetic. Take for example...
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Marijuana Intoxication Harder Drugs
1,146 wordsDouglas Lamar Marijuana Reefer Madness Douglas Lamar Gray bought a pound of marijuana in a room at the Econo Lodge in Decatur, Alabama. He intended to keep a couple of ounces for himself and sell the rest to some of his friends. After paying $ 900 for the pot, Gray was arrested in a police sting operation. He was charged with trafficking cannabis, tried, fined $ 25, 000, and sentenced to life without parole in the maximum security prison of Springville, Alabama. Unfortunately, Grays punishment i...
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