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Pot Smokers Fatal Accidents
1,757 words... e found to have recently smoked marijuana, though it could not be proven that it caused the accident. The engineer had extensive record of speeding and DUI. He was known by management to have drinking problems. Congress mandated that random drug testing be done on the entire transportation industry. Marijuana is less of a road hazard than alcohol. Surveys have found that half or more of fatal drivers have alcohol in their blood, as opposed to 7 - 20 % with THC, the major component of marijua...
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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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Cancer Chemotherapy Side Effects
788 wordsAccording to a 1988 government survey, marijuana is the third most widely used drug used in the United States, after alcohol and cigarettes. An estimated 66 million people - or one-third of all Americans - have tried marijuana; and roughly 12 million of them are current users. # Marijuana is an illegal drug that is grown throughout the world. It is used for medical treatments, pleasure, and things we use and see today. It also has many side effects, health hazards, and health issues. Marijuana i...
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Hallucinogenic Drugs Neuro Transmission
1,695 words... Small quantities cause relaxation and slight changes in mood but larger quantities can cause stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, shivering, a numbing of the mouth and dizziness. People sometimes mistakenly take poisonous mushrooms for those containing psilocybin. Cannabis is a depressant drug that slows down the body's systems. Very strong cannabis preparations or larger quantities of cannabis can cause mild hallucinogenic effects. These can lead to anxiety or panic in the user (Australian Dr...
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2,115 wordsIn recent years, debates over whether the government should legalize the drug marijuana, and the resulting drug war, have made headlines nationwide. The idea that doctors and researchers have been persevering to prove is that marijuana has medical uses for patients with certain diseases and disorders. But the government has their eyes closed to the facts. Doctors and scientists who have studied marijuana agree that it does have some medical benefits, and some feel the government is so busy fight...
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Drug Enforcement Agency Short Term Memory
1,057 wordsHow do we define a drug? Who makes a drug illegal and why do they make it illegal? Marijuana is considered a drug; but why is it considered a drug? In this essay I hope to persuade you that marijuana doesnt deserve the label it has been given. I will use several different examples that will prove to you that marijuana isnt as harmful as people portray it to be. This is a discussion that we have had in the past, when or culture was trying to prove that alcohol wasnt as bad as our government was t...
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Short Term Memory Smoking Marijuana
1,058 wordsThe Effects of Marijuana Marijuana is a mood altering or psychoactive drug that has many nicknames, such as pot, weed, ganja, sensi, herb, and others. It is an ancient drug that dates back to hundreds of years to Asia. Many cultures have used it during meditation, religious worship, and for intoxication. Marijuana itself comes from the Indian Hemp plant. It is the third most widely used drug in the United States, according to a survey taken in 1988, and it is the number one illegally used drug i...
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U S Law Fossil Fuels
2,152 wordsThroughout American history our country has come to rely on many different natural resources. With technology and the population increasing, the number of fossil fuel reserves and natural forests are going down. What America needs is a renewable source of fuels and fibers that will meet the growing needs of the future, but will not damage our environment. One of the most promising sources of fiber, fuel, and natural oil is hemp. Hemp, also known as Cannabis Sativa L, has been used in our country...
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Cannabis Sativa Hemp Seed
1,695 wordsHemp Proves to be Beneficial Researching hemp I have found that there are many more benefits in legalizing it, then there are keeping it illegal. When interviewing people I found that the majority of the people who know the difference between hemp and marijuana agreed that it should be legalized and if they didn? t I informed them on hemp they agreed it should be legalized. In this paper I will tell you many reason? s why I think hemp should be legalized and I will give you reason? s why other p...
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Hemp Seed Oil Marijuana Tax Act
1,928 wordsStephen Mullins Hemp, Why It Should Be Legalized When the subject of hemp is brought up, most of us think of an illegal plant that produces a hallucinogenic high when the flowers or leaves are eaten or smoked. A plant that corrupts our youth, causing our teenagers to drop out of school or use the drug as a stepping stone for harder drugs such as cocaine or heroin. Does any of this sound familiar? What do you think would happen to these beliefs you have if you were to find out the information giv...
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Marijuana Tax Act Reform Of Marijuana Laws
1,514 wordsFor thousands of years the plant cannabis sativa, otherwise known as hemp or marijuana, has been harvested by people and utilized in many different ways. It has been grown to provide food for villages and towns, and used for clothes, rope, and sails on early ships. The Bible was written on hemp paper, as well as the first draft of the US Constitution. Marijuana has been utilized for its medicinal value since four to five hundred BC. Not until a half-century ago did the hemp plant become illegal ...
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Marijuana As Medicine Evidence That Marijuana
992 wordsMarijuana Legalization Of Marijuana Marijuana Marijuana is the most profitable and versatile plant in the world, yet it is illegal. Tobacco and alcohol have no medicinal values, but they are legal. Where as marijuana has thousands of positive uses and it is illegal. Marijuana should be made legal for its many positive therapeutic, environmental, and economic effects. Marijuana can ease the symptoms of many different diseases and disorders. Smoking marijuana can improve symptoms associated with c...
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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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Effects Of Marijuana Smoked Marijuana
1,132 wordsFor the last fifty years there have been various debates over the legalization of cannabis sativa, more commonly known as marijuana, for it s medicinal potential. Many people in society are aware of the harmful and long-term effects of marijuana, and therefore are strongly opposed the drug. What people and governments around the world fail see is that marijuana has plenty of benefits, and could in fact, serve as a useful drug in the medical field. There have been millions of dollars spent to res...
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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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Thousands Of Dealers Legalizing Marijuana
1,679 wordsCase for Legalizing Marijuana What is Marijuana? Marijuana, a drug obtained from dried and crumpled parts of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. Smoked by rolling in tobacco paper or placing in a pipe. It is also consumed worldwide by an estimated 200, 000, 000 persons for pleasure, an escape from reality, or relaxation. Marijuana is known by a variety of names that in the United States, marijuana is called pot, grass, weed, Mary Jane, bones, etc. The main active principle of cannabis is THC. The po...
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2,551 wordsThis paper is to enlighten those who want to learn about marijuana and to hopefully leave them with the thought that it should be legal once again. Marijuana s makeup, effects, and history are told along with how it was used back in the ancient days for entertainment and medicinal use. Then the uses that marijuana has in today s world are talked about. After which I explain the governments involvement with marijuana and how the legalization would only help our country. Marijuana has been around ...
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Medical Use Of Marijuana Marijuana Prohibition
450 wordsMost Americans do not want to spend scarce public funds incarcerating nonviolent marijuana offenders, at a cost of $ 23, 000 per year. Politicians must reconsider our countrys priorities and attach more importance to combating violent crime than targeting marijuana smokers. Marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers at least $ 7. 5 billion annually. This is an enormous waste of scarce federal dollars that should be used to target violent crime. Marijuana prohibition makes no exception for the medical...
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War On Drugs Billions Of Dollars
1,239 wordsThe war on drugs failed. The government spent billions of dollars fighting drug use to no avail. Statistics shown in The Boston Globe state overall drug use among children ages twelve to seventeen had actually gone up from 5. 7 % in 1993 to 9 % in 1999 (Health Central). Other statistics reveal areas of decreased usage; however, the same statistics do not show the vast numbers of addicted people abusing Methamphetamine's or popular club drugs like Ecstasy. Ending drug usage is likely impossible. ...
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Higher Doses North America
630 wordsMarijuana is the common name given to any drug preparation from the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa. Various forms of this drug are known by different names throughout the world, such as kif in Morocco, data in South Africa, and ganja in India. In Western culture, cannabis preparations have acquired a variety of slang names, including grass, pot, tea, reefer, weed, and Mary Jane. Cannabis can be smoked, eaten in cakes, and drank in beverages. In Western cultures marijuana is prepared most often as a...
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