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Influence Of Alcohol Pre Prohibition
1,361 wordsAs under a spell, the people had suffered this act to be brought to its fatal conclusion, but with the first touch of cold reality the charm was undone, and the law appeared in its true aspect. Brought about by the Eighteenth Amendment and enforced through the Volstead Act, lasted for over a decade. Despite a growing lack of public support for both Prohibition and restraint itself, the ban on alcohol continued throughout the United States least in the law books. In practice, however, National Pr...
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Organic Chemistry Anti Inflammatory
2,348 wordsWhat would you think if I gave you a drug and said this is going to help you but I want you to know ahead of time that 50 % of the dose is not affected, in fact the drug is 50 % not pure. The idea of that would make you feel you want another drug. The reality of that is that a large # of drugs we give are 50 % impure and the reason is b / c so many drugs we give are racemic mixtures, a 50: 50 mixture of enantiomer's. Most drugs that demonstrate optical activity only one isomer is pharma logicall...
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The Long Term Effects Of Marijuana
1,216 wordsMarijuana is a drug that divides people. Some people claim it as the wonder drug of the ' 90 s, capable of relieving the symptoms of many serious illnesses. Others curse the day the cannabis plant was ever discovered. From pain relief to stimulating the appetites of patients on chemotherapy, marijuana seems to have plenty going for it as a medicine. The legalization of marijuana is a large controversy in many parts of the world today, but the obvious negative effects that the drug induces has ke...
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Stanza 74
1,330 wordsIn stanza 74, fit III, the lady of the castle offers a magical, green girdle to Sir Gawain and explains to him that the wearer of this corset cannot be killed by any cunning on earth. Sir Gawain, amidst an ethical dilemma, accepts the gift and chooses to conceal it from Lord Bertilak. This passage contains three of the main themes of the story the inner and outer conflicts between Sir Gawain's ethics and desire to live, and the test of religion. When Sir Gawain is offered the girdle, his knightl...
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Times More Potent Lsd
281 wordsLSD is a hallucinogen. In fact, it is the most potent hallucinogen known to man. LSD is 100 times more potent than psilocybin or psylicin and is 4000 times more potent than mescaline. It was synthesized in 1938 by a chemist who worked in Switzerland. There were no benefits for this drug that were found, so its study was discontinued. Interest in the drug rose when it was thought that it might be a possible treatment for schizophrenia. In the 1960 s- 1970 s hippies started to use the drug. It was...
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Paranoid Schizophrenia Amino Acids
1,720 wordsApril, 1956: The pharmaceutical company Parke & Davis first synthesize what they believe to be the perfect anesthetic (Souza, 1995). When administered to patients, it causes a completely dissociative state, with no significant respiratory or cardiovascular depression. Patients appear to be awake, eyes open, breathing normally. but are unaware of their surroundings or the procedures being performed upon them (Souza, 1995). Indeed, this is the perfect drug. Unfortunately, like all good things,...
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Type 2 Diabetes Glucose Tolerance
1,072 words... ; Evidence of Therapeutic/Diagnostic Significance Although the concept of developing a GSK- 3 inhibitor is new to pharmacology, some of the small molecules / drugs are not. There exist several naturally occurring GSK- 3 inhibitors that have been used as treatments for other diseases as well as synthetic compounds that have been identified through the use of high-throughput screens (FIGURE 8). One class of natural inhibitors is the metal ions. The first metal ion discovered as a GSK- 3 inhibi...
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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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Legalization Of Marijuana Influence Of Marijuana
2,723 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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Central Nervous System Lysergic Acid
1,611 wordsLSD (for Chemistry Class) Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) LSD), a potent hallucinogenic drug, also called a psychedelic, first synthesized from lysergic acid in Switzerland in l 038. Lysergic acids a white odorless drug, a component of the mold of ERGOT. Ergot is a product of the fungus Claviceps purpurea. Th e bio-active ingredients of ergot are all derivatives of lysergic acid. LSD is a semi-synthetic derivative of lysergic acid. Thus LSD is an ergot like substance. The drug evokes dreamlike ...
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Times More Potent Lsd
281 wordsLSD is a hallucinogen. In fact, it is the most potent hallucinogen known to man. LSD is 100 times more potent than psilocybin or psylicin and is 4000 times more potent than mescaline. It was synthesized in 1938 by a chemist who worked in Switzerland. There were no benefits for this drug that were found, so its study was discontinued. Interest in the drug rose when it was thought that it might be a possible treatment for schizophrenia. In the 1960? s- 1970? s hippies started to use the drug. It w...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Influence Of Marijuana
2,538 wordsMy thought on Marijuana What Is 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. An estimated 200, 000, 000 persons for pleasure, an escape from reality, or relaxation, also otherwise consume it worldwide. Marijuana is known by a variety of names such as kif in Morocco, data in South Africa, and bhang in India. Common in the United States, marijuana is called pot, g...
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Long Lasting Effects Snyder 1985 P
1,936 wordsMarijuana originated in the middle east (Taiwan, Korea). China plays an important part in Marijuana's history. Hoatho, the first chinese physician to use Cannabis for medical purposes as a painkiller and anesthetic for surgery. In the Ninth Century B. C. , it was used as an incense by the Assyrians Herbal, a Chinese book of medicine from the second Century B. C. , was first to describe it in print. It was used as an anesthetic 5, 000 years ago in ancient china. Many ( ) ancient cultures such as ...
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Spinal Cord Rabid Dog
887 wordsThe final and Rabies Rabies The final and certainly most famous success of Pasteur's research was the development of a vaccine against rabies or hydrophobia as it is also known. The disease has always had a hold on the public imagination and has been looked upon with horror. It evokes visions of raging victims, bound and howling, or asphyxiated between two mattresses (Duclaux). The treatments applied to victims were as horrible as the supposed symptoms: this included cauterizing the bite wounds ...
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