Prohibition: The Ignoble Experiment
.... 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 and that prohibition was the answer to societies problems.
Well, the drys were wrong because many problems surfaced as a result of
prohibition.
One problem was the increase of alcohol consumption. Alcohol
consumption did go down at the beginning of prohibition, but subsequently went
back up. Alcohol became more dang .....
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Psychodelic Drugs
.... 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 occur when as few as two drinks
are consumed in an hour by a 160 pound person. The deceptive part about
impairment is that, by definition, impaired judgment cannot recognize its own
impairment. The individual thinks he or she is functioning well, when actually
s/he is not. Later, there is impaired memory of the impaired performan .....
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The Legalizing Of Marijuana
.... 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! No… actually it
isn't novel at all. Many other forms of illegal drugs are dispensed as medicine
is this manner. Steroids (Cortizone, Prednizone and others) and opiates, namely
codeine and morphine, are prescribed regularly to patients for pain relief. Of
course the doctors don't dispense poppy seeds or cocaine, the drug .....
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The Banning Of "E For Ecstasy" By Nicholas Saunders
.... 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 education including negative data about the drug.
If information about drugs is kept in the dark, people will be tempted to seek
information in potentially harmful ways. If information flows freely, however,
people can usually be trusted to make smart choices.
The latest twist to this otherwise traditional story is that the en .....
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Proposition 215: Should Marijuana Be Legalized?
.... 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. (d) Section 11357, relating to the possession of marijuana, and
Section 11358, relating to the cultivation of marijuana, shall not apply to a
patient, or to a patient's primary caregiver, who possesses or cultivates
marijuana for the personal medical purposes of the patient upon the written or
oral recommendation or approval o .....
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Should Steroids Be Banned From Society?
.... 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 has died and an otopsy
showed the person was using steroids, but this does not mean they are a lethal
drug as some medical professionals have stated. Some advocates believe that
because steroids are legal, and since it's the decision of the user to take the
drug, steroids are not causing a problem in society. Alcohol and ci .....
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"Speed": Methylamphetamine
.... 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 great
guy with all this incredible energy, nothing would ever possibly make him upset.
Though when the drug wore off he was so grouchy that no one could stand a single
bit of being around him. Every little thing you did when he was coming down on
Speed annoyed him and it made me wonder if I was wrong at times. I remember a
gr .....
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The Advantages Of Being Legal
.... 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 some epileptic patients, marijuana
prevents seizures. Marijuana is also a very effective pain reliever.
Hemp, a plant mainly grown for its use as a fiber source, is from the
same plant that produces marijuana. It is different because industrial hemp is
grown with minute amounts of delta-9 and tetrahydrocannibinol, abbreviate .....
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Legalization Of Marijuana
.... 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 kept under control.
Many other complaints of the legalization of marijuana have been argued
and show no relevance in reasons of why marijuana should not be legalized. The
D.E.A. is trying to make the argument that by legalizing marijuana, the drug
problem in America will worsen. The way the DEA sees this issue is that if
th .....
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The Need To Legalize Pot
.... Marijuana has been
found to: relieve nausea and stimulate appetite in people with cancer and AIDS,
control muscle spasms among people with multiple sclerosis and other
neurological disorder, reduce eye pressure among people with glaucoma, and some
say it also controls seizures, eases chronic pain, and relieves depression. Dr.
Ernest Rosenbaum, a San Francisco cancer specialist, says he and many doctors
quietly recommend marijuana to patients who didn't respond to other medications.
A 1991 Harvard study found that about 40 % of cancer specialists surveyed had
recommended marijuana to relieve chemotherapy nausea, and about 48% sa .....
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U.S. Scourge Spreads South Of The Border
.... shirt, he sizes up the tourists
trudging off the footbridge from the United States. “Taxi, sir? You want
pharmacy? I get you a good pharmacy,” he urges, stepping from a line of
beckoning taxi drivers in big belts and straw cowboy hats. “Good prices! No
prescriptions!” Do I look like I want drugs?! I didn't even solicit the
business. I almost felt weird because this is exactly what I was planning to do
my paper on. Soon he is nosing his long yellow Oldsmobile through scruffy
streets choked with pharmacies. I asked for Somas-a drug that gives the user a
feeling of drunkenness without all the liquor, and illegal in the Uni .....
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Weed
.... a mind-altering drug was almost solely confined in
India. The drug and its uses reached the Middle and Near East during the next
several centuries, and then moved across North Africa, appeared in Latin America
and the Caribbean, and finally entered the United States in the early decades of
this century. Marijuana can even be used as "Biomass" fuel, where the pulp
(hurd) of the hemp plant can be burned as is or processed into charcoal,
methanol, methane, or gasoline. This process is called destructive distillation,
or 'pyrolysis.' Fuels made out of plants like this are called 'biomass' fuels.
This charcoal may be burned in today's .....
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