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- 591: Weed
- ... AD its use as 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 ...
- 592: Marijuana
- ... Seltzer after you had mom's Chili or Tacos, you might be sitting in the living room on the LAY-Z Boy, smoking a joint or however they would take it. The folk medicine of Africa and Asia have used it as an herbal preparation. A "mythical" and "legendary" pharmacist and emperor Shen Nung thought using it as a seditive was all right. In 2,700 B.C. that same "mythical ...
- 593: Hemp: A Help or a Hindrance?
- ... short-term smoking of marijuana has improved breathing in asthma patients. Muscle spasms are relieved when patients with muscle disorders take marijuana. In England, it has been used as an anti-depressant, and in South Africa, women smoke marijuana to ease the pain of child birth. Not only are people beginning to see hemp for its industrial and medical use, they are seeing it as a way to possibly help reduce ...
- 594: Opposing Euthanasia
- ... in opposition to euthanasia. All Fundamentalist and Evangelical faith groups are believed to be opposed to allowing euthanasia as well. Tolerance of euthanasia is not limited to our own country. A court case in South Africa illustrates this quite well. A medical practitioner, seeing his eighty-seven year old father suffering from terminal cancer of the prostate, injected an overdose of Morphine and Thiopental, causing his father's death within seconds ...
- 595: Ebola: A Contagious Trend
- ... viruses originally came from. Ebola Tai, found in 1995, only gave scientists more questions and set them back even further. It was found on November of 1995 by a Swiss researcher in Ivory Coast, West Africa. The researcher caught the disease from a chimpanzee while carrying out the investigation about a flow of deaths among local chimps of the Tai forest. No trace of the strand has been found. The researcher ...
- 596: The Effects of Ultra-Violet Rays On The Body
- ... the United States, for example, skin cancer is more common in Texas than it is in Minnesota, where the sun is not as strong. Worldwide, the highest rates of skin cancer are found in South Africa and Australia, areas that receive high amounts of UV radiation.(National Cancer Institute) Another way to minimize the effects of the sun is to wear sunglasses; they protect our eyes from the UV rays. One ...
- 597: Theory of Human Development
- ... couple making out on a park bench. But in another country, it may be against the law to even kiss another person in a public place. Also, if you were born into some tribe in Africa, it could be completely normal to see men and women walking around nude. Certain socially acceptable or unacceptable behaviors would have a serious effect on how open you are towards others. Any behavior that is ...
- 598: AIDS and Its History
- ... are two versions of HIV, both of which can cause AIDS: HIV-1, which has spread throughout the world, and HIV-2, a far less common and somewhat less harmful version largely restricted to West Africa. In the absence of further clarification, the generic term "HIV" almost universally refers to HIV-1, including throughout this volume. HIV has spread throughout human populations across the globe and is being intensively tracked by ...
- 599: Sickle Cell Anemia
- ... span of 120 days, the sickled cells result in chronic anemia (abnormally low levels of red blood cells). Sickle cell anemia is most common in people whose ancestors came from parts of Saudi Arabia, India, Africa, and the Mediterranean region. Persons of South American, Central American, or Cuban origin may be affected also. Health experts estimate that approximately 2 million Americans currently carry the trait, while another 72,000 have the ...
- 600: Euthanasia
- ... The word euthanasia becomes a respectable part of our vocabulary in a subtle way, via the phrase ' death with dignity'. Tolerance of euthanasia is not limited to our own country. A court case in South Africa, s. v. Hatmann (1975), illustrates this quite well. A medical practitioner, seeing his eighty-seven year old father suffering from terminal cancer of the prostate, injected an overdose of Morphine and Thiopental, causing his father ...
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