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Studies Have Shown Influence Of Marijuana
855 wordsCan anyone give me a reason why marijuana is illegal? What about marijuana is so different than any other drug out there? Is there even a difference? Let's take a look. Marijuana is 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 otherwise consumed worldwide by an estimated 200, 000, 000 people for pleasure, an escape from reality, health purposes, or relaxation. Marijuana is not a narcotic and ...
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San Francisco Mental Hospital
1,432 words1. Alice, the writer of the diary. She's 15 years old when the story begins. Her real name is not known. Mom, her mother, and Dad, her father, a university professor. Gran, her grandmother, and Gramps, her grandfather. Roger, a schoolmate with who she is in love for some time. Jill Peters, a schoolmate at her first school. Gerta, Beth, Fawn, friends she meet at her new school. Jan, Marcie, drug-users at her new school. Bill, Joe, Lane, Jacky, drug-users. Chris, a girl with who Alice goes to San ...
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Illegal Drugs Their Effects On The Body
2,045 wordsIllegal Drugs: Their effects on the body There are many types of drugs, and they have many different effects on the body. Drugs can kill those abuse them in 3 different ways: by overdose, through side effects or bad reactions, and as a means of committing suicide. Some drugs may cause both murderous and suicidal behavior. The hallucinogens, especially PCP, are infamous in this respect. Valium has also been cited as producing unwanted suicidal thoughts in some people. Drugs that affect mood and l...
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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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Term Effects Water Pipes
904 wordsDrugs in Youth Drugs in young people are one of the major problems concerning the younger generations. Drugs effect the youth of Australia greatly and they are one of the major problems in society today. In this assignment I chose to focus on Marijuana because it is the most commonly used illegal drugs in teenagers. Marijuana is made from the dried flowers and leaves of the plant Cannabis Sativa. Marijuana can look like dried herbs or tea it can be green grey or brown. Marijuana is usually smoke...
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Argument Against Lowering The Legal Drinking Age
764 wordsIt is estimated that underage drinking costs the US $ 58 billion each year in accidents, crime and hospitalizations. An estimated one-third of Americans abstain from drinking alcohol or liquor. The number of college binge drinkers in the 1999 Harvard study (44 percent) was the same as in the 1993 study. In the Harvard study, 0. 6 percent of respondents required medical attention for alcohol overdoses. This could equal 30, 000 such instances a year when applying the number to the nation's entire ...
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Esther Greenwood Bell Jar
901 wordsThe Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath sets itself during a 6 month period in the life of the main character that is Esther Greenwood. The beginning of the novel begins during the summer in which the Rosenberg's were executed in New York, which the year was 1953. Eisenhower was president at the time. The story is first set in New York in a hotel for women with the fictional title of Amazon, and in the offices of a womens fashion magazine. Later, the main character returns to her home in the suburbs of Bo...
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World Of Drugs One
1,118 wordsGo Ask Alice This book is actually a real diary, written by a 15 year old American girl who is tossed into the world of drugs. The girl has the 'perfect' life but is forced to change from a child to an adult virtually overnight. She develops a crass attitude, and becomes paranoid, all because of her newly found lust for drugs. It didn't just happen overnight. She started to take sleeping pills and tranquilizers to fall asleep but friends slipped her LSD and from then on she was hooked. She felt ...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Influence Of Marijuana
2,728 wordsWhat Is Marijuana Marijuana, a drug obtained from dried and crumpled parts of the ubiquitous hemp plant Cannabis sativa (or Cannabis indica). Smoked by rolling in tobacco paper or placing in a pipe. It is also otherwise 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 such as kif (Morocco), data (South Africa), and bhang (India). Common in the United States, marijuana is called pot, grass, weed,...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Drugs In Sport
524 wordsThe topic I am going to discuss today is Drugs in Sport. My contention is that drugs should not be made legal in sports. Drugs in sport is an issue that is always in the spotlight, especially during major athletic events such as the recent and highly controversial, Tour De France. However, now the issue has risen to such an extent that sport itself is almost a side issue. There have been numerous drug busts over the years as more and more athletes succumb to the temptation of an easy win by usin...
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Long Term Effects Personal Interview
1,508 wordsIn James Baldwins Sonny's Blues, Sonny was addicted to heroin. He states: I cant get anything straight in my head down here and I try not to think whats going to happen to me when I get outside again. Sometimes I think Im going to flip and never get outside and sometimes I think Ill come straight back. Ill tell you one think though Id rather blow my brains out then go through this again (84). Here Sonny is going through one of the stages of heroin. He is going through the withdrawal stage and he...
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Physician Assisted Suicide End Her Life
1,227 wordsHistory of Euthanasia in America 1973 - The American Medical Association issues the Patient Bill of Rights. The groundbreaking document allows patients to refuse medical treatment. 1976 - The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that the parents of Karen Ann Quinlan, who has been in a tranquilizer-and-alcohol-induced coma for a year, can remove her respirator. She dies nine years later. 1979 - Jo Roman, a New York artist dying of cancer, makes a videotape, telling her friends and family she intends to...
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Physician Assisted Suicide End Of Life
1,708 wordsINTRODUCTION It is hard to open a newspaper in the United States today without finding at least one article that has some bearing on the end-of-life debate. Perhaps Dr. Jack Kervorkian, a retired pathologist, has helped another person commit suicide, or a famous person with AIDS has written about the agony of the terminal stages of this terrible disease. Maybe the Pope has threatened to excommunicate any catholic that joins a right-to-die organization or a court has overturned another law bannin...
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Short Term Memory Evidence That Marijuana
1,148 wordsThe Benefits Of Marijuana Are you sick of hearing your girlfriend nagging you about letting go of your pot pastime? Have you been hearing a lot of negative things about the use of marijuana lately? Would you like to know what the real deal is behind the use of this infamous drug? Then read on because youre in for a surprise. One of the saddest things in North America is the lack of clinical trials on marijuana use. Many other countries in the world have already performed such tests in order to d...
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Heroin Addicts Heroin Addiction
1,474 wordsHeroin abuse is a serious national problem, one that is increasing everyday. More and more middle class, suburban adolescents and adults have turned to heroin as their drug of choice. In addition, heroin related deaths have skyrocketed within the last few years. With heroin on the rise in so many areas of the country it is important to know and understand the effects and consequences that heroin use and abuse can have. First and foremost, it is significant to understand what heroin is and where ...
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Threat To Society Legalization Of Marijuana
1,930 wordsThe legalization of marijuana would be a great benefit to almost everyone. Basically its our right of privacy to be able to smoke in our own homes. Its pretty much a failure of prohibition, and there are numerous benefits that would come into effect. An argument against legalizing it is that its a threat to society. In recent years, Americans have referred to privacy as one of the basic human rights, something to be claimed by anyone, anywhere. United States citizens feel strongly about this and...
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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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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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Patients Suffering Abc News
639 wordsEver since it s boom in the 1960 s and 1970 s, marijuana use has been a controversial topic. Marijuana is the dried, shredded flowers and buds of the hemp plant, cannabis saliva (Monroe). It is usually rolled into marijuana cigarettes known as joints, or put into pipes and smoked. The effects of marijuana vary from user to user. Some may feel nothing when using while others, feel relaxed, intoxicated, euphoric, or tired (Yahoo). While intoxicated time seems to pass slowly, and the user becomes e...
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Adverse Reactions Counter Drugs
392 wordsOver the counter drugs There are 2 basic types of drugs, prescription, and over the counter. Over the counter drugs can be bought any where, from a 7 -eleven to a drugstore. There are a few different types of drugs. Antihistamines: such as bynadrill used for allergies. Analgesics: such as Tylenol and aspirin, and more powerful ones, morphine and codeine, used for reliving pain. Anesthetics: such as Novocain used for more severe pain. Antibiotics: used to prevent or stop infection. Barbiturates a...
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