Mary Jane: The Devil Weed
.... and...marijuana
is a marker for individuals who are more prone to seek new experiences even when
these violate social norms and local laws."
Andrews related that "sensational newspaper stories relating...to crime is
generally held to be accountable for the sudden enactment of a law prohibiting
its use." He went on to note that "users were often subject to heavy penalties-
-up to life imprisonment in Texas." "After caffeine, nicotine and alcohol,
marijuana is the fourth most popular abused substan .....
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Pass The Weed
.... the 1930's for its
dangerous effects. However, earlier and more primitive cultures were able to
safely explore marijuana's usage for both medicinal and hallucinogenic
properties. The usage of marijuana has existed for thousands of years in many
countries world wide and can be documented as far back as 2700 BC in ancient
Chinese writings. In the earlier cultures, marijuana usage was accepted and its
effects documented. However, the United States government overlooked all of the
information and banned .....
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Marijuana: Persuasive Essay
.... This law was put into effect by the
president Bill Clintion. I feel that the law enforcers in California should
ignore the federal law or appeal it in court.
There is another drug that is illegal to use in any way but for medical
reasons. That drug is morphine, it is used in hospitals to relieve the sever
pain of any patient. The reason I know this is that recently my mother was in
the hospital for a brain aneurysm and when she got headaches she was given
morphine. This is just like what is g .....
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Phencyclidine: The Dawn Of A New Age
.... polycyclic compound belonging to
the arylcyclohexylamine class of chemicals [figure 1.0] (Souza 1993). In pure
form, it is a white powder which readily dissolves in water. The cyclohexamines
are known for their the potent neurological effects, with PCP being the most
potent. Almost every variation has been administered to, or abused by, humans at
some time (Nintey Fifth Congress, 1978). All these compounds have similar
pharmacological effects, which vary considerably according to the amount
administered. .....
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Marijuana
.... be sitting in the living room on the LAY-Z Boy,
smoking a joint or however they would take it. The folk medicine of Africa and
Asia have used it as an herbal preparation. A "mythical" and "legendary"
pharmacist and emperor Shen Nung thought using it as a seditive was all right.
In 2,700 B.C. that same "mythical" emperor said it helped female weakness, gout,
rheumatism, malaria, beri-beri (?), contipation, and absentmindedness.
In 1979 (A.D.) Carlton E. Turner visited China and found marijuana was n .....
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Decriminalization Vs. Prohibition
.... I was not going to be
dodging the law my whole life. I was going to be everything I wanted to be, and
drugs were definitely not going to get in the way. I promised myself I would
not end up like Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin, both found dead after overdoses,
because I had the power to say no. I had read stories and seen news flashes
about the side effects of some drugs. I had read newspaper articles about
people in Rome, which is just a few minutes away, dying of heroin overdoses. I
had seen peopl .....
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Prohibition: The Ignoble Experiment
.... that America was already facing.
People believed that prohibition would fail and that it was a violation
of a person's privacy while other people thought that prohibition would do
nothing but improve America. People who were against prohibition were called
wets and people for it were called drys. Wets mainly consisted of democrats who
refused to stop drinking and who were usually older men or immigrants who drank
all their life. The drys were usually republican Protestants who believed
alcohol was evil .....
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Psychodelic Drugs
.... people drink to unwind from the demands of
life. Because alcohol has been around for so long, its effects are well-known.
Two key concepts to understand in dealing with alcohol use and abuse are
impairment and tolerance. They are both problems in themselves and signals of
possible additional difficulties.
IMPAIRMENT refers to the deficits in performance, judgment, memory, and
motor skills which occur because of alcohol consumption. Impairment becomes
noticeable at blood levels of 0.05%, which can occ .....
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The Legalizing Of Marijuana
.... and probably widely used. The
problem is that there are as many harmful effects from smoking marijuana as
there are benefits. It slows reflexes, dulls the brain, and sometimes causes
hallucinations and/or cancer. There's no mystery about why it is illegal in
most parts of the world… including the U.S.
There is a simple solution that is not being discussed by the hard-
headed bureaucracy. THC is easily removed from the plant and could be
administered as medicine in pill form. What a novel idea .....
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The Banning Of "E For Ecstasy" By Nicholas Saunders
.... ecstasy due to
the positive way in which the drug was described. After reading further into
the text, however, much more detailed information about the drug is brought
fourth. For example, the book associates use of ecstasy with the cultures of
all kinds of illegal drugs. In my opinion, the ban should be lifted because the
book does not just give the positive information about this drug. While the
book does side towards the use of the drug, it does provide all kinds of
interesting information and ed .....
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Proposition 215: Should Marijuana Be Legalized?
.... to provide for the safe and affordable
distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of marijuana. (2)
Nothing in this act shall be construed to supersede legislation prohibiting
persons from engaging in conduct that endangers others, nor to condone the
diversion of marijuana for nonmedical purposes. With standing any other
provision of law, no physician in this state shall be punished, or denied any
right or privilege, for having recommended marijuana to a patient for medical
purposes. .....
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Should Steroids Be Banned From Society?
.... can have on their minds and bodies. Although steroids cause minimal
deaths in our society, banning of steroids is purely justified because steroids
have extremely perilous side effects on the unsuspecting user.
Though steroids are known as a somewhat dangerous substance, they are
legal to possess and consume, and there has not been a true clinical study that
proves such possible side effects are linked to medical problems of steroid
users. Sure, there has been several cases where someone .....
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"Speed": Methylamphetamine
.... insomnia, restlessness, and a fake sense
of acting normal. People either snort the drug up the nose or smoke it through
the mouth. After staying up for days on Speed the drug where's off and a person
will sleep for days, there is a larger fatigue and one will be so damn depressed.
I stopped talking to a friend because he was so addicted to this
horrible drug called Speed. One thing I noticed is he was a totally different
person when he was using speed. Whenever he was high on the drug he was a g .....
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The Advantages Of Being Legal
.... of cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and chronic
pain. For cancer patients, marijuana alleviates the nausea, vomiting, and loss
of appetite caused by chemotherapy treatment. It does the same for people with
AIDS. By reducing intraocular pressure, marijuana helps slow or halt the
gradual increasing eye pressure suffered by glaucoma patients. Marijuana reduces
the muscle pain and spastically caused by multiple sclerosis. It also helps some
patients control their bladders. With .....
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Legalization Of Marijuana
.... possible addiction to the drug and its effects in society. As with any
other drug, the possibility of addiction is a concern, but when a doctor
prescribes the marijuana, he will have the chance to control and monitor the
intake of the patient. There are many other drugs that are legal with the same
types of effects such as codeine, cocaine, and morphine. If drugs like those
are legal and are under control, then a drug like marijuana that is very similar
to them, should also be legalized and easily k .....
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