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Drugs & Alcohol Essays and Term Papers
History of marijuanaWhat is marijuana?.... It is mixture dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp plant.
It has been around for thousands of years, with many different kinds of uses. In the early 7000 B.C. It is believed that much of the fabric was made of dried hemp. Around 6000 B.C. Chinese ...
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Don’t Fear the ReeferZach Shepherd
Ms. Lindberg
English II Honors 6th block
March 17th, 2011
Pot, weed, green, tree, dope, ganja, kush, bammy, chillums, funk, bo-bo; whatever you may have heard it called, it’s all marijuana. Cannabis, as it is known to scientists, has quickly become the world’s most commonly ...
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Marijuana StoryMarijuana has been hailed as a prescription for many ills and physicians once used it to stimulate appetite, relieve chronic pain, and treat asthma and migraines. But is marijuana really a medical miracle? If so, do its clinical benefits outweigh its drawbacks? Should we legalize marijuana? Is ...
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SmokingSmoking is something I personally can’t stand. I hate the smell, the way someone’s breath smells after, and everything else that comes with a smoker. If people where to quit smoking we would improve the air quality level and also eliminate the pollution the little cancer sticks put off. People ...
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California Marijuana Supremacy CauseAs many Californians may know it is legal to smoke and or consume marijuana products if and only if you have a valid medical reason and have been issued a medical card. The only problem is that the federal government doesn’t recognize proposition 215 at all, in the eyes of the federal government ...
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LSDLysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD, also known as lysergide, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family. Lysergic acid diethylamide is one of the most potent hallucinogens. It is a drug of extreme unpredictability and is known for its psychological effects which can ...
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Alocholism and EffectsAlcohol is a mental stimulant that triggers the limpix system of the primitive human brain to produce a chemical called dopamine. This give the body a pleasurable feeling and is created when the brain rewards us for doing something neccessary for survival such as sex or eating. People over time can ...
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Alcohol At Sporting EventsAdrian Zavala
10/10/09
English 3
Mr. Williams
Essay
In the article “Banning beer laudable but laughable” Mike Bianchi explains how sport venues and events should ban beer but knows it won’t happen. The main reason is that people abuse the privileges of having alcohol at games. Through the ...
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Sid ViciousImagine you’re standing in the orchestra pit at a rock show. To the right snaggle-toothed bleach blonde girls are staring to the stage, dazed as heroine sets in. You follow their gaze, watching as the lead guitarist goes into a wild solo. As he plays, the most media worthy band mate stands ...
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Why Marijuana Should Never Be LegalizedRecreational use of Marijuana should remain illegal, as it is a harmful drug that causes severe mental and behavioural disorders; the negative long-term effects of cannabis greatly outweigh the positive; and Recreational drug use is a threat to public health.
Marijuana greatly increases the ...
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Drinking AgeDrinking Age Limit
I. A. HOOK A-1. Everyone knows that it is illegal to consume alcohol until the age of 21 in the United States. Many people are in agreement with this legal restriction. Some would even say that it should be raised. However, the legal drinking age sometimes causes more ...
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Brave New World And Its Comparison With The Present SocietyJoseph Hughes
Ms. Dolim
Honors English 12
24 March 2011
“Was and will make me ill, I take a gram and only am."
In 1932 Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World where he envisioned a world in the future where people rely on drugs to be happy and get through life’s problems. The society we ...
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Legalize itLegalize It
The first and most basic reason that marijuana should be legal is that there is no good reason for it not to be legal. Some people ask 'why should marijuana be legalized?" but we should ask "Why should marijuana be illegal?" From a philosophical point of view, individuals deserve ...
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Drug Tests... Constitutional?What is the true meaning of random drug tests? Do they have a purpose, or is it just to have more authority? According to the Fourth Amendment, the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; ...
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Should marijuana be legalizedShould marijuana be legalized? Many Americans have this question roaming through their heads. Marijuana is an illegal drug in the U.S. and many other countries; it comes from dried flowers and leaves of the hemp plant. It has been available since the 1960s, but is 20 times more potent than before. ...
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Legalization of MarijuanaThe most commonly abused illicit drug in our country. A medically beneficial plant that may be able to help thousands with their pain, and an illegal drug that is smuggled into our country on a daily basis, marijuana is on everyone’s mind. What should America do about this problem?
In the ...
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Drugs and AlcoholTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both. Recent surveys have conveyed that drug use among teens have declined by more than twenty-three percent over the past five years. Most drug use begins in the preteen and teenage years, these years most crucial in the maturation ...
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The Effects of Steroids in BaseballJose Canseco once said, “The national past-time is juiced”. The use of steroids has greatly impacted the game of baseball forever. Steroids can have a huge effect on an athletes overall performance. In baseball, the testing for steroids and consequences for using steroids is not perfect and needs ...
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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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Underage DrinkingUnderage Drinking
Many teens face adult problems at a very young age. Underage drinking viewed in the eyes of parents and law enforcement agencies is a major problem among teen. In today society, kids are being pressured into doing things at a very young adolescent age. Problem many parents ...
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Marijuana: Modest ProposalAs is well known, one of the most widely used illegal drugs in America is Marijuana. 70 million Americans over the age of 12 have used this horrible drug. More importantly, half of all youth under the age of 18 have smoked marijuana.
Aside from the fact that smoking “the reefer” probably won’t ...
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Marijuana should be legalCannabis or Marijuana as most know it by is currently an illegal substance, but what harm does it do to us? It is less harmful than most drugs out there, take cigarettes for example, it causes cancer, emphysema, and heart disease, and is a bad habit that can cause smokers hundreds and even ...
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War On DrugsThe word drugs, is a difficult word to define. It can have various definitions; A drug is anything one can get addicted to; from legal to illegal substances (Idralowitz, 2002). A well-known drug that most Americans suffer from is tobacco and alcohol. Unfortunately this is not illegal in the U.S ...
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AlcoholIn chemistry terms, alcohol is any organic compound where a hydroxyl group (-OH) is bound to a carbon atom from an alkyl. A hydroxyl group is a group consisting of an oxygen and hydrogen atom, bonded by a covalent bond. A covalent bonded is when two non-metals are bonded together. The type of ...
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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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