Marijuana
.... There are many slang
names for marijuana such as pot, weed, boom, gangster, and Mary Jane. This drug
causes Timing, coordination, alertness, and performance to be affected in a
negative way. Marijuana has THC in it which is absorbed by fatty tissues in
various organs. THC can be detected using urine tests and it will stay in your
system for seven to a couple of weeks.
Teens are the reason that drugs are a problem in the U.S.. About one in
six 10th graders report that they are current marijuana users. Fewer then one in
five high school seniors are current users. Some people who use this drug feel
nothing but some feel relaxed an .....
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Marijuana
.... members. Marijuana prohibition
threatened far fewer Americans, and they had relatively little influence in the
districts of power. Only the prohibition of marijuana, which some sixty million
Americans have violated since 1965 has come close to approximating the
prohibition experience, but marijuana smokers consist mostly of young and
relatively powerless Americans (American Heritage, pg 47). Alcohol prohibition
was repealed and marijuana prohibition was retained, not because scientists had
proved that alcohol was the less dangerous of the various psychoactive drugs,
but because of the prejudices and preferences of most Americ .....
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Legalization Of Marijana: For
.... problem. They are not, and it is absurd to continue to spend law
enforcement resources arresting them.
Marijuana smokers in this country are no different from their non-
smoking peers, except for their marijuana use. Like most Americans, they are
responsible citizens who work hard, raise families, contribute to their
communities, and want a safe, crime-free neighborhood in which to live. Because
of our marijuana laws, these citizens face criminal arrest and imprisonment
solely because they choose to smoke a marijuana cigarette when they relax,
instead of drinking alcohol. They simply prefer marijuana over alcohol as their
recreat .....
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Marijuana: A Horticultural Revolution, A Medical And Legal Battle
.... patients and lowers eye pressure in glaucoma sufferers. Cancer and AIDS
patients often lose a lot of weight, either due directly to their illness or
indirectly to the treatment of the illness. Dramatic weight loss puts their
lives in even more danger. Marijuana stimulates the appetite, thus enabling
patients to eat more and gain weight which in turn strengthens the immune system.
So if there are so many benefits, then why is marijuana not legal? Many
states contend that the ban on medical marijuana is necessary to prevent drug
abuse and the availability of illicit drugs and to control the purity of
medicinal drug produ .....
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Marijuana
.... marijuana again. When you take marijuana, it doesn't
make you violent, in fact it leads to non-violence.
There has never been a case that a person died from smoking marijuana.
THC is one of the few chemicals that has no known toxic amount. This is amazing,
since tobacco(which is legal) has 340,000 plus deaths in a typical year,
compared to marijuana, which has 0 deaths.
The government states that over 20 million Americans still smoke
marijuana. You can say that marijuana affects your health, but marijuana is
less dangerous than tobacco and people smoke less of it at a time. Or you can
eat the plant instead of smoking i .....
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Marijuana
.... the geographic location of those surveyed would be useful in a
number of ways. First, it would ease the fears of parents not living in the
troubled areas. More importantly, it would allow school officials, drug
enforcement officials, drug counselors, etc., to focus their attention and dime
to those specific areas with the biggest problem. Are we looking at inner-city
youth or are we looking at suburban youth. It makes a difference as to how you
approach the problem. Which station do you advertise on? Where does the local
government allocate extra funding for drug education and law enforcement?
Another pertinent factor would .....
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Mary Jane: The Devil Weed
.... 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 substance" (O'Brien, Cohen, Evans,
and Fine, 175).
does marijuana deserve this reputation? We must first consider what it is
and what effects it has. The active ingredient is tetrahydocannabinol, or THC
(Andrews). THC, found only in the female plant, produces a mild euphoric effect.
Marijuana is considered a hallucinogen, a Sched .....
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Pass The Weed
.... 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 the drug. Recently, however, there has been a resurgence
in the opinion of the drug's positive medicinal purposes.
Studies on the medicinal uses of marijuana have been conducted on many
patients that suffer from various health problems. In patients with the AIDS,
the drug served as a beneficial way to stimulate appetite. .....
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Marijuana: Persuasive Essay
.... 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 going on in California, people diagnosed
with AIDS and other illnesses should be able to use strong medicines including
marijuana to ease the suffering that they are experiencing.
Especially in California where there are more AIDS cases there than any
other place in the nation. All over the state there are clinics that .....
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Phencyclidine: The Dawn Of A New Age
.... 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. Small doses produce a `drunken' state, in which subjects report a
numbness in the extremities, while some species (like dogs and cats) become
quite excited (Halberstadt, 1995). Intermediate doses have anesthetic and
analgesic effects , with the psychic state resembling sensory isolation with one
important exception: the sensor .....
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Marijuana
.... 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 not
in use in formal medical places. J. D. P. Graham of the Welsh National School
of Medicine wrote, "One not need take to seriously the anecdotal use of it's use
for many purposes in China or by the Hindus in the pre-Christian Millennia .
..and by the Arabs!" In 1890 in England's "Lancet" said cannabis extract was
good for ne .....
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Decriminalization Vs. Prohibition
.... 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 people on TV that were alive, but were not conscious of their
surroundings, because of drug use. Their lives were basically over. I had
listened to speakers preach that drugs were one of the Devil's tools. There was
no way I would even consider ever trying them, because once a person starts,
they can't stop.
It was a few years .....
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