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- 151: Search & Seizure In The Context Of Automobiles
- ... of the different types of categories in which the "automobile exception" may or may not apply: PLAIN VIEW Some seizures are initiated by "plain view" searches. Visualize yourself sitting in your car, smoking your fourth marijuana cigarette in a row. You are, in anybody's book considered "stoned", so you don't notice the policeman looking through your car window. Can he arrest you? Of course! He can arrest you because the marijuana which you were smoking was in the "plain view" of the officer. An officer standing outside a motor vehicle may seize contraband that he sees inside the vehicle. Most often, such plain view searches are ... to conduct a warrantless search of a compartment behind the front seat. The basis for this search was because the police officer saw an empty roach clip and a vial of what appeared to be marijuana in plain view. INVENTORY SEARCHES There are also seizures initiated by inventory searches. Consider the following scenario: You are invited to a party at a friend's house, and you are bringing the traditional ...
- 152: Todays Hip Hop
- ... classic, "White Lines", by Grandmaster Melle Mel, educated listeners about the dangers of drug use and drug abuse. Drugs were not acceptable in rap music such as they are today. If an artist even mentioned marijuana or any of its thousands of synonyms, the media and the listeners reacted in shock. In the mid-1980s, rapper Run of Run DMC claimed, "I keep a bag of cheeba inside my locker" (Ro ... In this particular issue, Redman wrote an article about how to roll a blunt. Rap groups Cypress Hill, Funkdoobiest, and Total Devastation are all advocates and promoters of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws). Almost all of their promotional material (posters, t-shirts, etc.) contain pictures of marijuana leaves as well. A particular Cypress Hill poster pictures a skull with an afro of marijuana leaves smoking a joint. Below the picture are the words, "Stoned is the way of the walk" (Waxenberg ...
- 153: Creative Writing: Stanley
- ... them didn't work, and the main pastime that seemed most amusing to all was smoking weed. If you asked Stan or any one of them, they would say that no addictions are associated with marijuana, and that they certainly were not addicted. The truth, on the other hand, was far the opposite. These people would spend $500.00 a week between the four of them on marijuana, and smoke it like it was their lifeline. Most borrowed money from their parents, others spend most or all of their paychecks on marijuana. As far as any of them were concerned, some of their best investments in life had been weed purchases. Stan was not as enthusiastic about marijuana, but he certainly played his role in the ...
- 154: Raves And Drugs
- ... physical risks include mangled, and unclear speech, decreased awareness of touch and pain, convulsion, coma, heart, and lung failure. Psychological risks associated with using hallucinogens is depression, anxiety, paranoia, confusion, loss of control, and flashbacks. Marijuana is chemotherapeutic drug. This means that it can be used to treat certain types of cancer. The point of these past sentences is to make a point, the point is that marijuana cant really affect the body of the abusers body since it is widely used in the practice of medicine. The things that marijuana can do to the body is as follows: make the eyes red, cause brain damage, low oxygen supply to the heart, and there is a possibility that it may even cause lung cancer. Marijuana ...
- 155: Mexico's Drug Trade
- ... the creation of a market for these substances, elevating them to privileged position among the most profitable raw materials for foreign exchange. In the form of raw materials, these drugs - which include heroine, cocaine, and marijuana - begin as the poppy, coca, and marijuana plants respectively. These plants grow well, and quickly, in Latin American countries that experience a relatively hot, humid climate year round such as Colombia, Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru. Due to these favorable ... involved in the economics of sanctioned trading activity. Individuals from the United States and other developed countries take the role of those who demand the finished good or service, in this case, cocaine, heroine, and marijuana. Thousands of Latin American farmers assume the supplier role by harvesting and selling the drug producing plants to middlemen. These middlemen, often part of powerful Mexican or Colombian drug cartels, Mafia, or guerrilla groups, ...
- 156: Is the US Policy on Drug Prohibition Effective?
- ... from "appropriate" drugs to that of the number of people who die annually from illicit drugs, we would be inconsistent to think of the illicit drugs as dangerous. For example, 60 million Americans have tried marijuana and not one of these 60 million have died of an overdose. If this is compared to the 10,000 people who die annually from overdosing on alcohol, one can assume that marijuana is much less dangerous than alcohol. Also, many drugs have minor side-effects when compared to acceptable drugs. One example, heroin, is highly addictive, but when used in a clean environment with clean needles, its ... a high number of people would use drugs is hard. Gorman's report also includes Dr. Dupont's projection that if drugs were legal 50 million people (1/4 the over 12 population) would use marijuana regularly and that 60 million (nearly 1/3 the over twelve population) would use cocaine regularly ('Myths'). These statistics are scary, but they are just not possible and are not founded in the truth. ...
- 157: Should We Legalize
- ... from "appropriate" drugs to that of the number of people who die annually from illicit drugs, it would be inconsistent to think of the illicit drugs as dangerous. For example, 60 million Americans have tried marijuana and not one of these 60 million have died of an overdose. If this is compared to the 10,000 people who die annually from overdosing on alcohol, one can assume that marijuana is much less dangerous than alcohol. Also, many drugs have minor side-effects when compared to acceptable drugs. One example, heroin, is highly addictive, but when used in a clean environment with clean needles, its ... United States has only 200 million people over age 12, believing that such a high number of people would use drugs is were legal 50 million people (1/4 the over 12 population) would use marijuana regularly and that 60 million (nearly 1/3 the over twelve population) would use cocaine regularly (Myths'). These statistics are scary, but they are just not possible. They are not possible because they would ...
- 158: Hallucinogen
- ... or experience nonexistent sensations, these drugs are also known as psychedelic, or mind-bending, drugs. Some hallucinogens come from natural sources; others are made in laboratories. Examples of natural hallucinogens are mescaline, psilocybin, DMT, and marijuana. Mescaline, which has been used by American Indians in religious ceremonies, comes from the peyote cactus. Psilocybin, also used by the Indians and believed to have supernatural powers, is found in about 20 varieties of ... DMT (dimethyltryptamine) is a short-acting hallucinogen found in the seeds of certain West Indian and South American plants. In the form of snuff, called cohoba, it has been used in religious ceremonies in Haiti. Marijuana is a plant belonging to the hemp family . The active principle responsible for the drug's effects is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), obtained from the amber-colored resin of the flowering tops and leaves of the plant ... effect. Psychological dependence on hallucinogens is well documented. It appears that each drug carries its own risks. For example, unlike hallucinogens such as LSD and synthetics such as DOM that consist of a single chemical, marijuana has been found to contain more than 400 separate substances. These substances are in turn broken down in the body into a great many more chemicals, and the effects of these chemicals on the ...
- 159: Legalize It!
- ... resources with no results. It is now time to look at alternative methods to solving the nation's drug problem. I will be looking at one of these methods that deals with the legalization of marijuana. In the following pages you can look at why I think there is a problem in the United States which deals with the use of drugs, our solutions to the problem and our responses to the attacks against the legalization of marijuana. Although, legalization will increase use of the drug. However, many supporters of continuing the illegalization of drugs believe that by legalizing drugs they will become more accessible and use will therefore increase. They base this argument on past experiment dealing with alcohol prohibition. After the end of prohibition with the 21st amendment, alcohol consumption doubled while prohibition decreased use by 50 percent(Light). They also cite that use of marijuana peaked in 1979 when there was a decriminalization of drug use by eleven states. When researching to find if a particular solution will prove to be of use, it is important to look at ...
- 160: Effects Of Drugs On Adolecents
- ... personal example of drug use from a teenager, " When I started using, was only on weekends, at parties. I used drugs 'recreationally' and therefore thought I had no addiction problem. I used drugs like nicotine, marijuana or LSD to be happy or to have fun. I needed drugs. I kept using drugs; I used drugs like marijuana to fit socially. I had problems in my life, emotionally, that drugs only seemed to solve. Drugs made my problems worse. I started snorting cocaine. I injected heroin into my veins. I almost died. I ... The consequences of taking LSD are severe, physical side effects include inducing violent and hazardous behavior, also LSD develops tolerant quickly, so frequent users has to eventually increase dosage. The other most popular thing is marijuana, or weed. It's usually imported from Africa, Asia, South America and Caribbean, but homegrown weed is getting more and more popular because of the sophistication of growing equipment. The most common effects are ...
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