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- 161: Drug Prohibition
- ... 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. ...
- 162: Blind As A Bat!
- ... be nonchalant about Robert's knowledge of his wife and making the trip all the worth while. Robert is not the only one in the story to have vision. When the husband offers Robert some marijuana, he is taking a risk. He thinks the blind man will be ok with the idea of it but he does not know for sure. He could end up turning Robert off and that would ... is trying to be being polite. Her lack of vision is seen again when she comes downstairs and realizes that Robert and her husband are smoking a joint. She is completely confused about Robert smoking marijuana. "My wife came back downstairs wearing her pink robe and her pink slippers. 'What do I smell?' she said. 'We thought we'd have us some cannabis,' I said. My wife gave me a savage ... He said, ' I do now my dear. There's a first time for everything. But I don't feel anything yet." Here you can see the narrator's wife numb to the idea of smoking marijuana with her guest. In her blindness, she does realize that other people might smoke marijuana. That is why she gave her husband "a savage look." She did not realize that anyone else she knew ...
- 163: How Can Drug Trafficking Be Co
- ... of the U.S. Also many other law enforcement agencies. The southern hemisphere has given the U.S. a really hard time with the international drug trade. Where do drugs come from? Most of the marijuana Smuggling routes that come into the United States comes from the south. Columbia is one of the main contributors to the problems of the drug war. Not only does Columbia sell cocaine to the United States, it also sells marijuana. Columbia is responsible for over eighty percent of the cocaine distribution around the world. In Columbia cocaine production is the leading export and moneymaker of the economy. It even passes the production and export of ... a truck coming over the border to the united States from Mexico. Even in this big tractor-trailer a dog sniffed out the drugs. The contents of the hospital waste was 2,300 pounds of marijuana and 114 pounds of cocaine. These drugs were compacted in 103 bundles wrapped in duct tape so that if there was any surveillance cameras it wouldn't show up because of the contents of ...
- 164: The Real Side of Tobacco, Drugs, and Alcohol
- ... smoking can effect their performance. It decreases your lung capacity, causing you to breathe more heavily. Teenagers who smoke have been proven three times more likely to use alcohol, eight times more likely to use marijuana, and 22 times more likely to use cocaine. Among the many drugs used by people, marijuana is the most commonly used. People who use this drug become less motivated and less social. Also, their emotions become less apparent. It can also cause problems with having children. If enough of this drug is taken over a long period of time, then it can cause psychotic episodes. The more the drug is used, the more of a tolerance is built up, thus meaning the more marijuana you need to get "high". Marijuana has not been proven to be physically addictive, but it is mentally addictive. People who use marijuana often, are known to have short-term memory loss. Other drugs ...
- 165: “Smoke” The Prohibition!
- ... 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. These statistics are scary, but they are just not possible and are not founded in the truth. They ...
- 166: Why I Think They Should Legalize Pot
- Why I Think They Should Legalize Pot There has recently been lots of contreversy over whether they should legalize marijuana, or not. I think they should, and there is lots of important evidence and reasons to support this. If drugs were legalized, this country would be a much nicer place to inhabit and for this ... to be made. We can't throw every little pot head in jail just because they like grass. After all, it's not like it's cocaine or something, which should still be illegal. Second, marijuana is not even as bad as some of the stuff that's legal. You are more in control of your senses than when trashed, and not nearly as violent. Nobody has ever died directly from getting stoned. Smoking a joint is not as likely to cause cancer as a cigarette, and weed isn't addictive. In fact, there are very little bad sides to smoking marijuana. It doesn't even burn your throat as much when you smoke it in a bong as do cigarettes. Thirdly, if the price of pot went down quite a bit, then there would be ...
- 167: Legalization of Drugs
- ... and other antisocial tendencies, and lessening the sense of responsibility. "Cocaine, particularly in the form of crack, has gained such a reputation in recent years, just as heroin did in the 1960s and 1970s, and marijuana did in the years before that. Crack's reputation for inspiring violent behavior may or may not be more deserved than those of marijuana and heroin. No illicit drug, however, is as widely associated with violent behavior as alcohol. According to Justice Department statistics, 54 percent of all jail inmates convicted of violent crimes in 1983 reported having used ... would depend on overall rates of drug abuse and changes in the nature of consumption, both of which are impossible to predict. It is worth noting, however, that a shift in consumption from alcohol to marijuana would almost certainly contribute to a decline in violent behavior" (Lindsmith Center). The fourth drug link is the violent, intimidating, and corrupting behavior of the drug traffickers. Illegal markets tend to breed violence not ...
- 168: Drugs and Legalization
- ... parents. Eliminating the drug dealer will force these young children into the reality that education is the way to make money, not selling drugs. N.O.R.M.L (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) is a fully recognized organization that lobbies for the removal of criminal penalties for the individual who uses marijuana in private. Since it is the Americans right to privacy, personal choice, and individual freedom. Marijuana, in addition to not being a dangerous drug, has been documented to have practical medical purposes and environmental purposes. The legalization of marijuana, a drug that the criminalization of is so impossible to enforce, ...
- 169: Illegal Drugs
- ... tobacco in them. *The drug Caffeine can be found in many everyday items, like soda candy bars. Think of how many cops we would need if caffeine products were illegal. Why are drugs like cocaine,marijuana and heroin illegal? Cocaine, marijuana and heroin are illegal because most people think that these controlled substances are simply to dangerous for anyone to use. They the effects of thes substances ruin the body and mind so badly and quickly ... destroy missions and helicopter surveillance. Sounds like americans at war, well this goes on every day on our own home soil and the battle fields are our national parks and forests and the enemy is marijuana. Marijuana is the most common used illegal drug in the U.S. * Over 65 million people have tryed it. *More than 25 million people have used it in the last year. *Over 11 million ...
- 170: Hippie Culture
- ... they are known for today. "Eve of destruction; no satisfaction…and a third motif went rippling through the baby-boom culture: adhesive love" (Gitlin 200). The freedom they found came with the help of drugs. Marijuana evolved from its "black and Hispanic, jazz-minded enclaves to the outlying zones of the white middle class young" (Gitlin 200). This new drug allowed a person to open their mind to new understandings and philosophies. But it wasn’t just marijuana that opened the minds of the youth; a new drug known as LSD came into existence: Depending on who was doing the talking, [LSD] is an intellectual tool to explore psychic ‘inner space,’ a new ... service of a new age" (Gitlin 214). It wasn’t just the youth in America who was using these drugs. A statistic from 1967 states that "more American troops in Vietnam were arrested for smoking marijuana than for any other major crime" (Steinbeck 97). The amazing statistic wasn’t the amount of soldiers smoking marijuana; it was the amount of soldiers America was sending over to fight a war that ...
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