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Illegal Drug Use Essays and Term Papers
"Legalization Of Marijuana"Cannabis sativa or marijuana has been cultivated for over 5,000 years. The plant spreads like milkweed and will eventually run out any other plants nearby. In the wild, or grown with care marijuana can grow to be 3 - 20 feet high. The plant itself can be used for rope, material, medicine or for ...
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The Negative Portrayal Of LSDDespite the negative portrayal in mainstream 1960s media, justifications expressed by counterculture activists for further investigation, education and experimentation under government control of LSD were rational and valid arguments. Sex, drugs, protests, war, political upheaval, cultural chaos, ...
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Legalizing Medical MarijuanaThe medical community continues to expand our ability to handle life-threatening illnesses and prolong life. With that ability comes an extension of the treatments that patients must undergo. Many patients today refuse medical treatment that may save or prolong their life, out of a desire to avoid ...
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Should We End Marijuana ProhibitionShould We End Marijuana Prohibition?
Paula J. Telisczak
March 4, 2012
Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility
Safiyyah- Al Amin
The subject of legalizing marijuana or keeping illegal has been an ongoing debate for some 40 years. America is getting closer to having the ban on the ...
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CigarettesIt is clear that businesses have an obligation to inform their customers about their product's ingredients and dangers. Looking at the case of Rose Cipollone we see that she was a heavy smoker. Her doctor's had to remove part of her right cancerous lung and informed her that she had to quit ...
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Effects Of Drugs On The BodyDrug abuse is commonly defined as the harmful, non-medical use of a mind-altering drug. The constant misuse of such drugs can lead to poor health and to personality and behavioral problems. Some people use the term drug abuse of refer only to problems with illegal drugs. Other people include ...
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Should Drugs Be LegalizedMany strict laws have been passed against drugs but they seem to have little affect. People still decide to sell or use drugs for recreational purpose. This is why narcotics should be legalized. Before 1914, it was legal to make, sell, or use any type of drugs. Many of the drugs were used for ...
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Methamphetamine: Built For Speed??
Methamphetamine has reclaimed a place in the lexicon of "party" drugs. Hailed by
nocturnal adventurers, condemned by raver idealists, is speed a sleepless dream
or an addictive nightmare?
Here at the end of the millennium, the pace of modern life seems fleeting -- a
whirl of minutes, hours ...
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Drugs In SportsI am certainly a great sporting enthusiast. I love nothing more than to watch a great sporting encounter, no matter which sport. Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly common for sportsmen and women to use substances to aid their performance. That is not to say all competitors use illegal ...
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Synthetic Drugs Of AbuseIt seems that primitive man at times wished to escape his reality. He or she
probably found some natural herbal drugs to facilitate this desire. In fact
abuse of the coca leaf and the opium poppy has been occuring the last 3000 years,
and probably longer. The mescaline containing peyote cactus has ...
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Prison vs. Treatment CenterPrison vs. Treatment Center
I feel that the Criminal Justice System, Lawyers, and Judges can do better in helping and correctly placing our American Drug Abuser in treatment centers instead of placing them in prison for years because their are addicted to drugs. The purpose of my paper is to ...
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Marijuana Abuse"Marijuana is the second most popular drug after alcohol in the country today. So many people smoke marijuana that the numbers alone seem to legitimize and condone its presence in people's lives. Yet, even in moderation marijuana is not 'safe.' Somehow this information had not filtered down to ...
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Marijuana As A MedicineIf your every waking moment was consumed by pain and nausea, wouldn't
you ask for medication? What if the only medication legally available would
leave you unconscious or do nothing at all? If you were the one suffering, would
you resort to the only treatment that allowed you to live normally even ...
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Does Contact Racial Profiling Lead to Aggressive Police Conduct?Racial profiling is a policing method that has increasingly become scrutinized over the years. An overwhelming number of individuals in the United States are subject to racial profiling. Nearly thirty-two million Americans state they have already been victims of racial profiling. Nearly ...
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Legalizing MarijuanaJerin Xavier
Professor Heilman
ENGL 1101-48
22, Feb. 2012
Legalizing Marijuana
The year was 2009, in Fresno, California; the world's biggest marijuana bust was documented. It was worth almost one billion dollars, eighty two arrests and killing almost three hundred thousand marijuana ...
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Legalization Of MarijuanaE-mail: wutang112878@hotmail.com
Recently doctors have prescribed marijuana, and “the Clinton administration threatened to prosecute doctors who prescribe marijuana,” (Gonnerman 40). Doctors are prescribing marijuana for its medical benefits. The Clinton administration on the other hand is ...
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The Mexican U.S. ConnectionMexico and the United States have been close together, at the same time
being so far apart. Mexico and the U.S. have maintained a healthy neighbor to
neighbor relationship over the centuries. There have been disputes of course,
but for the most part we are working together. When striving to ...
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Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons OnlyWhen people think of medicine, they generally don’t consider "The Gateway Drug", as marijuana is occasionally called, as their ordinary prescription. Most think of antibiotics, aspirins, or over the counter pills; it’s presumable that marijuana wasn’t the first thought in the majority of ...
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The Legalizing Of MarijuanaRecently, both California and Arizona took the long needed initiative
and approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The California bill
says that patients may use marijuana with a doctor's recommendation. It does
not, however, allow doctors to prescribe the drug. Arizona voters passed ...
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Marijuana For Medicinal PurposesIn 1936 when Marijuana was made illegal it was considered a medicine in
good standing with the American Medical Association. At the time Marijuana could
be found in twenty eight different medical products and countless other consumer
products. On November 5th, 1996 California and Arizona passed ...
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